From 1949 to 2004, UNC Press and the UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures published the Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures series. Monographs, anthologies, and critical editions in the series covered an array of topics including medieval and modern literature, theater, linguistics, philology, onomastics, and the history of ideas. The series was created by Richard Jente, the first editor of the series, who would serve as Chairman until his death in 1952. Subsequent series editors were Frederick E. Coenen (1952-1968), Siegfried Mews (1968-1980), Richard H. Lawson (1980-1984), Paul T. Roberge (1985-2000), and Jonathan M. Hess (2000–2004).
Open Access Ebooks
The Press and its partners, UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and the UNC Library, are pleased to make available 124 monographs, translations, and critical editions. This is the first time these works will be available as ebooks, which will be accessible in open access PDF and EPUB (with a few exceptions) formats, as well as in new paperback editions. The digital editions will be hosted on the Carolina Digital Repository, Project MUSE, JSTOR, OAPEN, and a number of other open access platforms.
About the Humanities Open Book Program
This project has been generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Humanities Open Book Program. For more information on the work done by the program to make out-of-print humanities books available to the public free of charge visit https://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/humanities-open-book.
View the Catalog
View a PDF of the complete series catalog, or scroll through the list of books below.

The End of Modernism
Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: October 2020

Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720
Edited by James A. Parente Jr. , Richard Erich Schade , George C. Schoolfield
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: November 2020

Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
Edited by Gerhild Scholz Williams , Stephan K. Schindler
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: October 2020

Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship
Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold
Edited by Gerhard Richter
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020

Gottfried Benn's Static Poetry
Aesthetic and Intellectual-Historical Interpretations
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020

The Impatient Muse
Germany and the Sturm und Drang
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020

The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism
Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst and the Neoclassic Tradition
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020

Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries
Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020

Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy
Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020

Brecht and the Bible
A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature
Published: May 2020