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Rebecca Martin in Berlin 2018

Inspiration Strikes in Berlin

After a study abroad trip aimed at first-time travelers sparked her interest in Germany, Rebecca Rose Martin designed a research project with advisor Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, associate professor…

Kassi Burnett Germanic Dept Ohio State

Burnett wins travel grant

Kassi Burnett, a doctoral student studying Germanic Languages and Literatures, was raised by a family of coal miners and steel mill workers in St. Clairsville in rural Ohio. That upbringing…

Holub publishes Nietzsche volume

Nietzsche in the 19th Century appears

Robert Holub, Ohio Eminent Scholar of German and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has recently published a book on Nietzsche’s connections with various discourses of his times. Titled…

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Paul Reitter discusses history of liberal arts and higher education ​

GLL Professor Paul Reitter’s article in The New York Review of Books, “The Business of Learning,” looks at liberal higher education and free inquiry through international and historical lenses.…

Leah and the Dybbuk Play at Ohio State

Theatre student stages Yiddish ghost story

John Michael Sefel, who is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and an MA in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies, saw the play adaptation he wrote and directed come to life on stage at Ohio State: Leah and the…

GLL 2018 Distinguished Alumna Karin A. Wurst

Karin A. Wurst named 2018 Distinguished Alumna

We are pleased to announce our 2018 Distinguished Alumna, Professor Karin A. Wurst (Ph.D. 1985).

Professor Wurst specializes in eighteenth-century Literary and Cultural Studies and Early…

Josh Petersen wins a 2018 Alexander Stephan Prize at Ohio State

Winners of the 2018 Alexander Stephan Prizes

We are pleased to announce the two winners of the national 2018 Alexander Stephan Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies ! The German-language prize has been awarded to Joshua R. Peterson, a…

Reitter Wins Diversity Award at Ohio State

Reitter Wins Diversity Award

On April 27, Professor Paul Reitter was recognized as a recipient of the University’s Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award at a ceremony attended by President Drake and Provost McPheron. This…

Dennis Schaefer MA Ohio State Germanic Languages and Literatures

Schaefer's MA thesis defended!

Congratulations to Dennis Schaefer, who successfully defended his master's thesis this semester (photo left with Prof. Davidson and his adviser, Prof. Holub).

In the autumn of 2016, Dennis…