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Seminar Room Refurbishing Now Complete
It took almost two years, but with the posters of linguistic samplings of Germanic Languages now on the wall, the refurbishing of the seminar room is finally complete.
The project was begun…

Dresden Summer Language Program German Blog
The Dresden Summer Language Program study abroad is now in full swing with students currently blogging about their experience.
These 25 Buckeyes abroad are on an eight-week, intensive…

Professor Corl retires
Kathryn Corl, Associate Professor of German, will retire at the end of the 2014-15 academic year. She was honored on May 2nd during a Retirement Reception. For almost three decades, Corl touched…

Professor Fehervary retires
On May 31, 2015, after a career spanning more than 40 years, Helen Fehervary, professor of German, will retire from The Ohio State University. This, however, does not mean that her work will be…

New Book by Paul Reitter
Paul Reitter’s latest book, Bambi’s Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture, was recently published in Bloomsbury Press. The collection showcases a rich sampling of Professor…

A salute to our 2015 departmental award winners
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures proudly salutes the student recipients of its annual awards.
Wenxi Yang received the Dieter Cunz Award for the outstanding undergraduate…

Byram Publishes Monograph on Narrative Theory
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures is delighted to announce the publication of Katra Byram’s new book, Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present…

An Education in German
Visiting Dresden, Germany with Alice Schlingman
by Jessi Jones
So each academic year, one student from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures…

Davidson to Give Inaugural Lecture
Professor John Davidson, promoted to Full Professor last year, will be delivering his inaugural lecture on January 18 in the Faculty Club Grand Lounge at 5:00 PM. He will be speaking on “…