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We congratulate May Mergenthaler, Associate Professor in the department, who has been accepted as fellow of the Akademie für Lyrikkritik at the Haus für Poesie in Berlin for the first 6 months of…

Characters before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany, published by Oxford University Press, was selected from a shortlist of seven excellent academic…

When Dani Blumenfeld, a junior marketing student in the Fisher College of Business, took over as co-president of German Club last year, she faced the unexpected challenge of figuring out how to…

Kevin Richards has been recognized as a Buckeye Access All-Star by a student served by Student Life Disability Services. Congratulations and thank you, Kevin!

Cheryl L. Lyons, Director of…

The MLA has announced that Matthew H. Birkhold, associate professor of German at The Ohio State University, Columbus, will receive an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for…

Sonia Gollance, Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies, is one of three recipients of this year's Cashmere Subvention Award in Jewish Gender,…

Associate Professor Matthew Birkhold has secured a grant from the Sustainability Education and Learning Committee to lead a campus-wide effort to create a new Environmental Arts & Humanities…

Students in Prof. Gollance's Yiddish 1101 class exchanged beginning of the year greetings in Yiddish with the first semester Yiddish class at the University of Michigan that were inspired by…

Katra Byram, Associate Professor, recently appeared on the College of Arts and Sciences Voices of Excellence podcast, speaking with host David Staley about her research and teaching. Byram and…