News
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 student in…
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 in…
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 is selected to study and serve as a T…
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 “Ecological…
Reitter to Give Inaugural Lecture
Professor Paul Reitter, promoted to Full Professor last year, will be delivering his inaugural lecture on January 21. He will be speaking on “Bambi’s Jewish Roots.” The lecture will reconstruct the…
Change in HR/Financial Staffing
After many years serving Germanic Languages and Literatures and, in more recent times, the departments on the fourth floor of Hagerty Hall, Brenda Hosey retired at the end of November. We all wish…
Natascha Miller Wins College-Wide Award
Natascha Miller, the Academic Program Coordinator for Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been awarded the “Above and Beyond Buckeye Prize” from the College of Arts and Sciences for November 2014…
Das Kraus-Projekt is published
Das Kraus-Projekt, a collection of selected essays by Karl Kraus with commentary by the noted American novelist Jonathan Franzen and our own Paul Reitter, was published on November 28 by Rowohlt…
Call for Papers - 2015 GGSA
CONFIGURATIONS OF HUMAN BODIES2015 OSU Germanic Graduate Student Association Conference--- CALL FOR PAPERS (Undergraduate Panel) ---Please email a short bio and an abstract of 250-300 words to…