弗吉尼亚大学的德语研究生课程已建立完善，可以追溯到几十年前。我们是弗吉尼亚州唯一的德语博士学位课程，我们构成了德文文学和文化研究的卓越中心。研究生课程的核心是德文文学部在文学，叙事和文化理论上的力量，从启蒙到现在的知识史，流派研究（尤其是戏剧和小说方面的研究），现代媒体的批判研究（例如（Google），犹太研究和中世纪，仅列举了我们的一些优势。作为一个高度敬业的教师，我们还受益于每个秋季学期在德文举办的“来自德文的Max Kade杰出客座教授”这一职位，该职位最近由Ulrike Stamm教授担任。直到最
The Graduate Program in German at the University of Virginia is well established and dates back many decades. The only doctoral program in German in the Commonwealth of Virginia, we constitute a center of excellence for the study of German literature and culture. Central to the graduate program are the German Department's strengths in literary, narrative, and cultural theory, intellectual history from the Enlightenment to the Present, genre studies (especially in drama and the novel), critical studies of modern media (e.g. ''Google''), Jewish Studies, and the Middle Ages, to name just some of our strengths. A highly engaged faculty, we also benefit by hosting each fall semester a ''Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor'' from Germany-a position most recently filled by Professor Ulrike Stamm. We have until recently also benefitted from having a lively and highly motivated group of graduate students, students who have maintained the tradition each year of organizing and hosting the longest standing Graduate Conference in German in the United States. Our exchange program with the Universities of Dortmund, as well as UVA's nominations for DAAD fellowships that students may compete for, ensure that all students who want to spend a year in Germany will have the opportunity to do so. Similarly, our strong records of M.A. and Ph.D. completion together with our excellent placement record for recent doctoral students is something we are proud to note.