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Professor Birkhold with GLL Awards Winners
April 10, 2025

2025 Germanic Awards Celebration!

in the Ohio Union, Student-Alumni Council Room
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April 22, 2025

Roundable on The Paganesque and The Tale of Vǫlsi by Merrill Kaplan

Hagerty Hall / 198 Humanities Institute / main campus

Recent News

Birkhold - Greenland Fantasies in Origins

Matthew H. Birkhold publishes 'Greenland Fantasies' in Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective!

Greenland has been much in the news at the start of 2025. Donald Trump wants to buy the world's largest island for its natural resources and strategic position. In fact, as Matthew Birkhold writes…

GATA 2025 in Germanic LL at Ohio State

Grubb receives GATA (Graduate Associate Teaching Award) in 2025

  Students and faculty congratulate Haley Grubb on receiving the GATA, Ohio State's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by…

SP25 Dr Cynthia Porter Ohio State

Porter Delivers Lecture on Tattoos in 20th Century German History

On Monday, March 17, GLL's Cynthia Porter delivered the keynote lecture at the annual induction ceremony of Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society at the University of Arkansas.

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Porter and Aupiais publish book reviews in the German Studies Review

We are proud to announce that two of our junior faculty members, Cynthia D. Porter and Juan-Jaques Aupiais, have contributed book reviews to the latest issue of the German Studies Review.

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