The German faculty in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University in Detroit announces three Graduate Teaching Assistant positions for students at the M.A. or Ph.D. level in 2013/14. The funding includes coverage of tuition and fees plus a stipend of approximately $15,500 per year and is renewable annually for up to two years for M.A. students and up to five years for Ph.D. students. Each student who is awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship will teach three beginning German language classes per year and be trained thoroughly in the methodologies and best practices of language teaching.

Additionally, WSU also offers the Munich Graduate Exchange Fellowship, which allows both M.A. and Ph.D. students to spend a year at the Ludwig Maximillians Universität in Munich as well as the Thomas Rumble University Graduate Fellowship, which funds Ph.D. students fully for one year of their graduate work (see http://gradschool.wayne.edu/funding/rumble.php). Both fellowships are offered annually on a competitive basis. As we work closely with our students on their applications, the department in general and the German area in particular have been very successful in securing these generous funding sources for our students.

Our graduate students are grounded in 18th- through 21st-century literary and cultural studies in a manner that reflects both breadth and depth of coverage. The German faculty are dedicated mentors with significant scholarly credentials and extensive teaching experiences in such diverse interdisciplinary fields as East German and post-Wende literature and film; film studies; folklore and fairy tale studies; intellectual history and critical theory; memory, trauma and Holocaust studies; sociolinguistics; German-American studies; as well as women’s and gender studies.

For more information on the department, see http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/languages
for more details on the German faculty, go to http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/languages/GermanFaculty
and to apply to the Graduate School, visit http://gradschool.wayne.edu/future/

You need to apply to the Graduate School first and then to the department for the M.A. or Ph.D. program and the GTAship. Please submit your application to the Graduate School by February 28, 2013, to allow adequate time for review. I will be happy to answer any questions, natürlich auch gern auf deutsch!

Sincerely,
Anne Rothe
Associate Professor of German
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 48224, USA
rothe@wayne.edu