News

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…
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…

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…
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…

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…

Steven Joyce receives 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
Join us in congratulating Steven Joyce on this well-deserved award!
Steven Joyce is an Associate Professor of German and comparative studies at the Ohio State University,…

Fulbrighters in Germany and Austria
Congratulations to our German majors and Fulbright recipients, Catherine, Daniel, Jessica, and Kersey !
Click on the link above to read more about what these students are up to…

Becker-Cantarino is honored with a Festschrift at GSA
Congratulations to Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Professor Emerita, who was presented with a Festschrift at this year’s German Studies Association Conference in Denver.
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Congratulations Erin on the Bundestag Internship!
Erin has been awarded a prestigious DAAD-EMGIP Bundestag Internship position for May and June, 2013.
If you are interested in applying, read more about the program…