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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…

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…

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

German House Memories from the 70's

In the most recent issue of the Ohio State Alumni Magazine (November-December) Fred Schuster, a graduate from 1974 recalls his positive experience at the German House http://www.osu.edu/alumni/…

Study Abroad Information Sessions Attract Record Numbers

If early numbers are an indication, Germanic Languages and Literatures could be in for a bumper year for study abroad. The addition of the May Session Berlin Program and the continued vigor of…

First Ohio German Studies Workshop (OGSW) takes place at Ohio State

The first Ohio German Studies Workshop (OGSW) took place on October 11 at the Blackwell Conference Center on the Ohio State Campus. Sponsored and organized by the Department of Germanic Languages…

Initial Ohio German Studies Workshop to take place at Ohio State

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University announces a new initiative for German Studies involving all faculty at colleges and universities throughout the state…