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The Germanic Graduate Student Association has hosted its ninth annual graduate student conference here at The Ohio State University. This year’s theme was “At the Fringes of Humanity: The Cyborg and…

Heimtraut F. Taylor
(1939-2017)

We mourn the passing of Heimy Taylor, who died at her home surrounded by family on March 21, 2017. We remember her modesty, dedicated and committed…

John (Jay) Gaines, alumnus of the 2016 Dresden Summer Language Program, is currently an intern in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin!  

He reports that work…


Matthew H. Birkhold has been selected by the Universität Luzern as the 2017 visiting researcher at the Institute lucernaiuris. The Institute is an international hub for the…

Over the course of the Spring 2017 semester, Graduate Teaching Associate Carolin Müller is undertaking an exciting new teaching project that engages issues of migration in German language…

Bernd Fischer, professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, has edited a special issue of Humanities 2016, 5(4), 86: "Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis."…

Paul Reitter, professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures and director of the Humanities Institute, is co-editor of The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook (University of Chicago…

In November, several of our graduate students, Kathrin Frenzel, Caro Müller, Sarah Larson, Dennis Schäfer, and Gina Wrobel, attended the annual TA workshop hosted by the Goethe Institute Chicago…

On November 4, Professor Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Director of Undergraduate Language Instruction and Individualized Instruction, and her cute puppy visited our weekly German conversation table.…