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    Four Important Questions

    What would it be like to study languages at Signum?  If only we could get a glimpse into the minds of the Germanic Philology Department luminaries! With this in mind, I asked the Germanic Philology professors four very important questions: What’s your coolest story about being a polyglot? Paul Peterson, PhD., Deputy Chair of the…


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    Fellowship of the Pen

    – By Barbara L. Quaale “The fact is, creativity itself is a messy business.” Have you ever been enchanted by the idea of a story, a really long story, and decided that you would like to write one yourself? Did you look at your stockpile of notions and say, “But how? Where do I start?…


  • It's a photo of a sideways page of text in a language that your faithful alt texter cannot read. Here's a sample word: niedersächsischen. No one would do that but Germans and their ancestors. I simply searched our media library on the word "German" and it came up along with some recognizable Germanic Philology textbooks and Wheelock's Latin, so there you go.

    What do you get when you fall in love?

    I asked some language professors and preceptors, “How did you first fall in love with language learning?”  And not one of them objected to the phrasing “fall in love.”  Each of our language faculty have a full-on neural-net entanglement with languages that are beautiful relationships indeed. Dr. Paul Peterson reports that he first fell in…


  • Call For Papers: Philology Anthology!

    Greetings, all!  Signum Press is pleased to announce a Call for Papers For a Philology Anthology. The attached PDF has all the details.  For questions about and contributions to the project, please email [email protected].  We hope to collect the contributions over July, August, and September. Thanks!


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    Mythmoot XI: Registration Open

    Huzzah! After many and complex logistics have been negotiated, sorted, and pounded into shape, the Mythmoot XI registration is open! What is Mythmoot? It is Signum University’s Annual Speculative Literature Conference, bringing together all of our community from every niche of the University. Fans of the Mythgard Institute, Students from the Graduate School of Arts,…