Graduate students who receive a Ph.D. from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State are successful at securing positions after graduation. See the excellent placement record below:
Bethany A. Richetti 2017
Learning to Re-present: Realism & Education in Literature and Visual Arts, 1800-1880
Lecturer, The Ohio State University
Marcus Breyer 2017
Meerstimmigkeiten: Metapher und Modernekritik bei Eduard von Keyserling
Returning to Germany to further his career
Jaclyn Kurash 2015
Mechanical Women and Sexy Machines: Typewriting in Mass-Media Culture of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Sara Rossini 2015
“Wie kommts, daß es mit den Philanthropinen so gar nicht fort will?”: Die Kritik an den Erziehungsmethoden der Philanthropen in fiktionalen Texten der Aufklärung.
Graduate Associate, Department of French & Italian, The Ohio State University
B. Wonneken Wanske 2015
Giving Birth and/to the New Science of Obstetrics: Fin-De-Siècle German Women Writers’ Perceptions of the Birthing Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Amber Suggitt 2015
Between Becoming and Being: Representations of the Individual in Friederike Helene Unger’s Novels
Sylvia Fischer 2014
Dass Hämmer und Herzen synchron erschallen. Erkundungen zu Heimat in Literatur und Film der DDR der 50er und 60er Jahre
Assistant Professor, University of West Florida
Alex Holznienkemper 2014
Philosophie und Literatur im post-säkularen Zeitalter – religiöse Gewalt im zeitgenössischen Roman
Lecturer, Baylor University
U. Berit Jany 2013
Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction
Visiting Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the first-and second-year German language program, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jennifer Magro Algarotti 2012
The Austrian Imaginary of Wilderness: Landscape, History and Identity in Contemporary Austrian Literature
International and Graduate Affairs Fellow, Mortiz College of Law, The Ohio State University
Jesse Wood 2012
“Aber das Geistige, das sehen Sie, das ist nichts.” Collisions with Hegel in Bertolt Brecht’s Early Materialism
Visiting Assistant Professor, BYU-Idaho (until 2016)
Kevin Richards 2012
Soldiering On: Images of the German Soldier 1985-2008
Lecturer, The Ohio State University
Thomas Stefaniuk 2012
Diaspora Destiny: Joseph Jessing and Competing Narratives of Nation, 1860-1899
Assistant Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University
Kristen Hetrick 2012
Writing Illness: Tuberculosis and Cancer in German and North American Literature
Assistant Professor, Doane College
Charles Vannette 2011
‘Wir pröbeln and schneidern mit Dingen, die in der Brust anderer Menschen gesund und geheimnissvoll und unangetastet ruhen…’: Narrative Observation and Hyperreflexivity in the Works of Robert Walser
Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
Sara Luly 2011
Magnetized Men: Constructing Masculinity through Somnambulism in the Works of German Romanticism
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Weijia Li 2009
Anna Seghers’ China – Begegnung in ihrem Leben und ihren Werken
Assistant Professor and Director of Global Higher Education MS Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sai Bhatawadekar 2007
Symptoms of Withdrawal: The Threefold Structure of Hegel's and Schopenhauer's Interpretation of Hindu Religion and Philosophy
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
Andrea Payk-Heitmann 2007
Fortschreiben, Vermeiden, Erneuern: Der Amerikadiskurs Deutscher Schriftsteller nach dem 11. September 2001
German course Co-ordinator and Lecturer at the FU-Berlin
Kristy Boney 2006
Mapping Topographies in the Anglo and German Narratives of Joseph Conrad, Anna Seghers, James Joyce, and Uwe Johnson
Associate Professor, University of Central Missouri
Patricia Sanda 2006
Christoph Ransmayrs Romane "Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis", "Die Letze Welt" und "Morbus Kitahara": Eine Narratologische, Historische und Rezeptionsästhetische Untersuchung
Resource Coordinator, PTI Global
David Connolly 2005
Problems of Textual Transmission in Early German Books on Mining: "Der Ursprung gemeynnes Berckrecht" and the Norwegian "Bergkordnung"
Scientific Information Analysis Manager, Dept. of Synthetic & Polymer Chemistry at Chemical Abstracts Service
Michaela Peroutkovά 2005
Literarische und mündliche Erzählungen über die Vertreibung. Ein deutsch-tschechischer Vergleich.
Assistant Professor, Czech University of Agriculture in Prague
Kathleen Hallihan 2005
Envisioning an Ideal State: The Literary Politics of Bettina von Arnim from 1830 to 1852
Director, Admissions & Student Services at John Glenn’s School of Public Affairs at OSU
Erol Boran 2004
Eine Geschichte des Türkisch-Deutschen Theaters und Kabaretts: Fremd- und Eigeninszenierung des "Türken" im Wandel der Zeiten
Associate Professor and Teaching Stream and Departmental Study Abroad Officer, University of Toronto
Nikhil Sathe 2003
Authenticity and the Critique of Tourism in Postwar Austrian Literature
Associate Professor, Ohio University
Jennifer William 2002
Zeiträume: Time, Space, and Metaphor in German-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century
Professor, Purdue University
Yogini Joglekar 2002
Who Cares Whodunit? Anti-Detection in West German Cinema
Asia-Pacific Director, Mountbatten Institute, India
Alicia Carter 2002
Fremde Pflanzen: The Gendered Gardens of Adalbert Stifter and Theodor Fontane
Assistant Professor, Lynchburg College
Christine Möller-Sahling 2001
Wie schön und unendlich schöner malt die Ferne Dich: Der Liebesdiskurs im Briefwechsel um 1800
Language Department Director, Goethe-Institut Boston
Cynthia Chalupa 2001
Through the Looking Glass: Overcoming Language in the Works of Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Ilse Aichinger
Associate Professor, West Virginia University
Stephanie Libbon 2000
Frank Wedekind’s Fantasy World: A Theater of Sexuality
Associate Professor, Kent State University