Raluca Cernahoschi
Associate Professor of German and European Studies
About
Raluca Cernahoschi is Associate Professor of German. She teaches courses in German and European Studies and specializes in 19th through 21st-century German and East-Central European literatures and cultures.
Professor Cernahoschi’s courses and scholarship often pursue questions of ethnic, class, gender, and generational experience and identity. Her teaching interests include German and East-Central European literature and film, the literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, film adaptation, and literary geography.
Professor Cernahoschi was co-organizer of the International Poetry Festival and Conference Translations 2011: Cross-Cultural Awareness through Poetry.
Expertise
Current Courses
Fall Semester 2026
Introduction to German Language and Culture I
This course, part of a yearlong sequence, introduces students to the German language and its cultural contexts. By emphasizing communicative skills, students learn to speak, build vocabulary, and develop their listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills. GER 101 is only offered in the fall …
Intermediate German Language and Culture I
Offered in the fall, this course is a continuation of GER 101-102. Students further expand their skills through sustained interactive practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as their cultural knowledge about the German-speaking countries through wide-ranging, authentic materia…
Senior Thesis
A capstone project, which may take the form of a written research paper, community-engaged project, translation project, or digital portfolio, is designed in consultation with the faculty advisor. Students register for GER 457 in the fall semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both G…
Winter Semester 2027
Mountains and Modernity
Once regarded as impenetrable barriers dividing Europe, the Alps and Carpathian Mountains were transformed into international meeting places with the arrival of mass tourism in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, these mountain ranges began to be claimed in the constructions of national a…
Life Writing
What does it mean to "write a life"? The course considers questions about the self-presentation of authors as narrators of their own or their families' stories, the relationship between disclosure and literary invention, and the contested area between truth and fiction in (auto)biographical forms. T…
Senior Thesis
A capstone project, which may take the form of a written research paper, community-engaged project, translation project, or digital portfolio, is designed in consultation with the faculty advisor. Students register for GER 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both…