Graduate Study Abroad & Exchanges

DAAD program, the Humboldt Foundation (link is external) as well as other fellowships and opportunities recently arranged with overseas institutions. External funding for study abroad can thus provide a sixth year of supported study. The Graduate School has an exchange program with all universities in Baden-Württemberg (Freiburg (link is external), Heidelberg (link is external), Tübingen (link is external) etc.) for which all of our graduate students are eligible; the department cooperates in particular with the Graduiertenkolleg and Exzellenzcluster at the University of Konstanz (link is external). Further opportunities of exchange exist with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (link is external), the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (link is external) and other institutions. Almost all of our students find their way to a German-speaking country at whatever juncture proves most useful for the completion of their degree.

Our Department also has an exchange program with the Department for Comparative Literature at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt (link is external). In addition, exchange students come to Yale every year from a number of German institutions (the Freie Universität in Berlin (link is external), Frankfurt (link is external), Bonn (link is external), Konstanz (link is external), Zürich (link is external) and others have participated) and this continues to be an important force in internationalizing the graduate experience here and in forging close trans-Atlantic ties for our students.

Baden-Württemberg August Programs

See Baden-Württemberg Summer Exchange Program

International Toolkit

For more information about study and travel abroad, please review the International Toolkit (link is external). The Toolkit provides important resources and information to students, faculty, and staff who are currently traveling abroad or preparing to travel abroad.