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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/…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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GLL Welcomes New Graduate Students

Germanic Languages and Literatures is delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students this fall. Three of them come from Germany, two from the TU-Dresden (Carolin Müller and Frauke Senckel), one…

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New Leadership in GLL


On August 1 Robert Holub began a four-year term as chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Holub joined the faculty at Ohio State in 2012 after resigning as Chancellor…

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A salute to our 2014 departmental award winners

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures proudly salutes the student recipients of its annual awards.

In a somewhat rare turn of events that speaks to the excellence of both…

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Job Market Success!

GLL students had great success on the job market this year.

Sylvia Fischer, who will be defending her dissertation this year, received a position at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota…

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Reitter Collaborates with Jonathan Franzen

Under the title The Kraus Project (October 2013) the celebrated American novelist Jonathan Franzen has newly translated and annotated several important essays by the Austrian journalist Karl…