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Join us in congratulating Juan-Jacques Aupiais, who has edited Damion Searls' translation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, A Story of India, which has been published by W.W. Norton &…
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures congratulates Dr. Cynthia Porter on the publication of three new scholarly and public-facing works during the summer of…
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Kramer on his successful dissertation defense!
Joshua presented and answered questions about his dissertation research, "A Gaze Upon the Colonized:…
Join us in congratulating Katra A. Byram on her latest book release.
Gender, Genre, and the Evolution of Memory: Insights from Postwar German Literature, 1945–2015 illuminates how…
Check out the 2026 Dresden Summer Language Program Blog, with photos and posts created by the fifteen students who participated.
While a course requirement, the blog is also an opportunity…
We congratulate Rop, who has successfully passed his candidacy exam!
Rop advanced to candidacy presenting his dissertation work entitled Addressing Archival Gaps and…
We congratulate Marcel Foerster, PhD Candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, on being selected as the 2026-27 Max Kade Dissertation Fellow!
Last…
Paul Reitter has been selected to a be a Member for Term II of next academic year (spring 2027) at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
John Davidson has been selected as a 2026 recipient of the President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service! Three faculty members were chosen to receive this honor…
We’re thrilled to share that GLL’s Assistant Professor Cynthia D. Porter has published her second chapter contribution to an edited volume! Co-authored with long-time collaborator Amy Lynne Hill …
Join us in congratulating Dr. Budimka Uskokovic on publishing
»Ich habe eine Frage«:
Die Fragestellung als Fenster zur Kultur in videobasierten…
Join us in congratulating Matthew H. Birkhold on his latest book release, published by Bloomsbury.
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden…
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Cynthia D. Porter, Assistant Professor of German, took part in the 2025-2026 faculty exchange program with the Germanistik department at the University of Bonn. Cynthia was well-paired with Dr…
Congratulations to Dr. Caleb Davis, who successfully defended his dissertation on August 20!
Caleb Davis’s dissertation, Reading Double: Focalization, Myth and Master Narrative…
Cynthia D. Porter has been named as one of 20 scholars receiving a Career Enhancement Fellowship for the 2025-2026 cycle. Funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by Citizens & Scholars,…
We are thrilled to announce the wonderful news!
Our esteemed faculty, Paul Reitter, has been named the Ohio Eminent Scholar of German.
This is a huge honor and a well-deserved…
Over the course of the two months which we will spend in Dresden, our students participating in this year's program will be posting in both English and German as well as sharing their pictures. …
The U.S. Department of State and Cultural Vistas have announced that Ethan Moore (Finance / German) is one of 65 Americans selected to study and work in Germany as part of the…
In January 2025, the freely accessible online journal for poetry criticism/reviews zæsur. poesiekritik went live, with the help of a generous grant by the city of Berlin, Germany, and private…
Congratulations to Trevor for advancing to candidacy! His exam centered on Thomas Mann’s radio addresses, a rich and underexplored topic in which Trevor has already acquired formidable expertise…
We congratulate Alexa Mendez, who has successfully passed her candidacy exam!
Alexa advanced to candidacy with a stellar exam whose focus was evocations of Blackness in…
Paul Reitter, the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been chosen to receive the 2025 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize…
We congratulate Haley Grubb, who has successfully passed her candidacy exam!
Haley's dissertation research focuses on a longitudinal study of learners of German and their…
Our esteemed faculty, Paul Reitter, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
This recognition places Prof. Reitter among the distinguished 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows…
Saatvika Vyakaranam (photo right) was selected to receive the Wolfgang Fleischhauer Award, established in honor of a professor of German linguistics at Ohio State from…
Andrew Morgan successfully defended his MA Thesis “Motivation in German Language Learning: A Study on the Motivations of Undergraduate German Learners for Majoring/Not Majoring in German” on…
Join us in congratulating the following Ohio State Students recently inducted into the Delta Phi Alpha National Academic Honor Society for College Students of German!
Jillian Drinnon World…
Congratulations to Paul Reitter on being named College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor…
Greenland has been much in the news at the start of 2025. Donald Trump wants to buy the world's largest island for its natural resources and strategic position. In fact, as Matthew Birkhold writes…
Students and faculty congratulate Haley Grubb on receiving the GATA, Ohio State's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving as Graduate Teaching…
On Monday, March 17, GLL's Cynthia Porter delivered the keynote lecture at the annual induction ceremony of Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society at the University of Arkansas.
We are proud to announce that two of our junior faculty members, Cynthia D. Porter and Juan-Jaques Aupiais, have contributed book reviews to the latest issue of the German Studies Review…
Professor John Davidson's efforts in representing the scholastic work of intercollegiate football have been recognized. He has been named as the 2024 Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Honoree…
As part of the Bonn-Ohio State Exchange, GLL will welcome Marius Reisener to campus this spring. He will co-teach with Cynthia Porter and plans to deliver a talk on March 18th (details forthcoming…
We are thrilled to share the highlights of the Germany on Campus-Kafka events that took place during the autumn 2024 semester. These events provided a rich tapestry of cultural and literary…
We are thrilled to report that a large group from GLL attended this year's ACTFL conference in Philadelphia! The theme was "Connect for the Love of Languages" and our students and faculty found it…
Merrill Kaplan, Associate Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies & Director of both the Center for Folklore Studies and the Scandinavian Program, appears on the latest…
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Kafka's death. Learn more about the life & works of this
German-language novelist and writer through
the…
Paul Reitter, with Paul North (Editor), has been working on an annotated English edition of Marx Capital (Vol. 1), now set to be released by Princeton University Press in September 2024. …
Welcome to the blog
of the
2024 Dresden Summer Language Program!
Over the course of the two months which we will spend in Dresden, the 21 students…
The entire department is pleased to congratulate Marcel Foerster, our third ABD in 2023-24!
Marcel Foerster successfully passed his candidacy exam on May 2, 2024! In his dissertation, he…
Ben Beese wrote a brilliant MA thesis that draws an archival research in exploring the life of Gretel Adorno and forcefully challenges the reigning paradigms in biographical writing about the…
On Friday, March 29, 2024, Assistant Professor Cynthia D. Porter presented as a part of the 2023/2024 Digital Humanities (DH) Showcase, which featured the research and pedagogy projects…
The entire department is pleased to congratulate our two newest ABD's!
Jorge Clavo Abbass successfully passing his Candidacy Exam on December 5th, 2023! Broadly speaking, Jorge’s…
Students and faculty congratulate Marcel Foerster on receiving the GATA, Ohio State's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving…
Live from the ASC Table Fair on February 17th in the Ohio Union - Brutus was considering a German minor - helped by Connor Harper and Tyler Nordstrom, who were both assisting with the table fair…
We are excited to announce the two winners of the 2024 Alexander Stephan National Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies!
Kirin Mueller’s essay, “
The Office of Distance Education has selected Dr. Kevin Richards to interview about his experiences with encouraging student engagement in online courses, innovations in assignments and…
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University is excited to announce the creation of the Umwelt Center for Germanic Studies and Environmental…
Our 2022-23 FLTA has weighed in with a description of the impact his Fulbright scholarship year in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (GLL) had in his life.
Each Fulbright…
Our very own Cynthia Porter will present her research as a part of the 2023 cohort of emerging scholars to share their research at this year’s GSA in Montréal on October 6 !
“Food For…
On June 21st-23rd, Cynthia D. Porter traveled to Emory University (Atlanta, GA) to attend the final the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Intention Foundry, defined as “a forum for…
Welcome to the blog
of the
2023 Dresden Summer Language Program!
Over the course of the two months which we will spend in Dresden, the 16…
Hearty congratulations to Ann-Sophie, our 2022-23 Max Kade Dissertation Fellow, for successfully defending on June 9th!
Ann-Sophie Roehm's dissertation, On the “right” path? – Analyzing…
It is with pleasure that the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures officially congratulates all five Master's students on the successful completion of their MA Assessments and top-notch…
Congratulations to Jenna Ciolino, who has successfully defended her senior thesis, Finding Family: Discovering the life of a Lithuanian family before, during, and after World War II. The…
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards this year.
The 2023 Wolfgang Fleischhauer Scholarship of $5,000 was awarded to Megan Miller, who…
Students and faculty congratulate Fabia Weisser on receiving the GATA, Ohio State's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving…
Alexander Kling is a postdoctoral research fellow for Modern German Literature at the University of Bonn. He is currently working on a book with the title Aus-dem-Rahmen-fallen. Eine…
The newest volume in the Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series has been published. We congratulate Professor Emerita Helen Fehervary on this latest release.
This is the 14th volume to…
Dr. Matt Johnson, Director of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies at Ohio State, is excited about the upcoming production of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's Indecent, "a…
Some classes are so large that you can do the stadium wave, but there are social annotation strategies that can make teaching to a “crowd” more manageable and help you reach and inspire all…
Kaffeestunde is back! After a long break over the summer, the Max Kade German House is hosting Kaffeestunde again, which takes place every Friday from 4:30pm to 5:30pm. With…
Germanic Languages and Literatures congratulates our recipients of the prestigious U.S. Student Fulbright Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright…
Slate: How Defamatory Is 'Goblin Mode' to Real Goblins?
Two years into the pandemic, “goblin mode” has become a new way to describe times when we lounge around, eat junk food and binge watch. …
Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger and Fabrizio Micalizzi, assistant to the coordinator of transatlantic cooperation, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chicago visited Ohio…
Please join the entire department in congratulating Prof. Anna A. Grotans on having been awarded the 2022 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching!
In course after course and in semester…
Hearty congratulations to Budimka for successfully defending on April 11th!
Budimka Uskokovic's dissertation, Intercultural Communicative Competence in German: A Conversation Analytic…
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards this year.
The 2022 Wolfgang Fleischhauer Scholarship of $5,000 was awarded to Gwen Stamper, who…
GLL doctoral student Jorge E. Clavo Abbass has been elected President of the Council of Graduate Students! Jorge previously served as the GLL delegate to the Council from 2019-2020 and again from…
GLL is delighted to welcome Matthew Johnson to its faculty. Johnson will be starting his appointment next fall and will have responsibilities for the Yiddish program, both as director of Yiddish…
GLL is delighted to announce that Cynthia Porter will be joining the faculty next fall. Porter earned a Bachelor’s degree from Denison University in 2010, then went on to acquire two Master’s…
Kevin Richards was recently interviewed by David Staley for the Voices of Excellence from Arts and Science podcast, in which they discuss the embodied experience of the internet, i.e. the…
We have received the sorrowful news that Professor LaVern John Rippley died January 6, 2022 in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1965, Professor Rippley earned a PhD in German Studies from the then
Andy Spencer has published the essay "First World War Commemoration: Einstürzende Neubauten ‘Do It A Dada’” in the volume German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives, edited…
The newest volume in the Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series has been published by Aufbau Verlag in Berlin. We congratulate Professor Emerita Helen Fehervary, the General Editor, on this…
Come visit the Hagerty Global Gallery on the first floor for The Grimms' Fairy Tales and their Afterlives with 36 panels on tales and topics drawn from the German 2254…
It is early autumn. Time to wear Tracht in certain German-speaking regions and in spots right here in Ohio that were settled by German-speaking immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries (Columbus,…
On 22 September Professor Robert C. Holub was interviewed by Alexander Gendler from the Chicago Jewish Café. The subject of the interview was Professor Holub’s 2016 book, Nietzsche’s Jewish…
Paul Reitter, Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, has published together with Chad Wellmon (University of Virginia) the volume Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted
Hearty congratulations to Kassi for a successful defense!
Kassi Burnett's dissertation, Differently Abled Natures: Being Other than Human in Contemporary German Literature,…
Hearty congratulations to Bill for successfully defending in April!
“Melancholy and the Photo-Historical Approach in the Films of Wim Wenders” provides what has been long awaited…
May Mergenthaler, Associate Professor, and Kassi Burnett, Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Katra Byram, have co-published an article in German in a special issue, “Ökologie” (Non Fiktion. Arsenal…
Join us in recognizing the achievements of our majors and minors in Germanic Languages and Literatures – 2020-2021!
The 2020-21 Dieter Cunz Outstanding Graduating Senior is Haley…
Congratulations!
It is with pleasure that the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures officially congratulates all four second-year Master's students on the successful completion…
We are excited to announce the winner of the national 2021 Alexander Stephan National Essay Prize in German Studies! This year's prize has been awarded to Sofia Patino Duque, who is…
We congratulate May Mergenthaler, Associate Professor in the department, who has been accepted as fellow of the Akademie für Lyrikkritik at the Haus für Poesie in Berlin for the first 6 months of…
Characters before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany, published by Oxford University Press, was selected from a shortlist of seven excellent…
When Dani Blumenfeld, a junior marketing student in the Fisher College of Business, took over as co-president of German Club last year, she faced the unexpected challenge of…
Kevin Richards has been recognized as a Buckeye Access All-Star by a student served by Student Life Disability Services. Congratulations and thank you, Kevin!
Cheryl L. Lyons,…
The MLA has announced that Matthew H. Birkhold, associate professor of German at The Ohio State University, Columbus, will receive an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for…
Sonia Gollance, Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies, is one of three recipients of this year's Cashmere Subvention Award in Jewish Gender,…
Associate Professor Matthew Birkhold has secured a grant from the Sustainability Education and Learning Committee to lead a campus-wide effort to create a new Environmental Arts & Humanities minor…
Students in Prof. Gollance's Yiddish 1101 class exchanged beginning of the year greetings in Yiddish with the first semester Yiddish class at the University of Michigan that were inspired by…
Katra Byram, Associate Professor, recently appeared on the College of Arts and Sciences Voices of Excellence podcast, speaking with host David Staley about her research and teaching…
Hearty congratulations to Caro for successfully defending on the 20th of August!
Carolin Mueller’s dissertation, From Musical Activism to Musical Citizenship: Dresden’s Banda…
Hearty congratulations to Carly for successfully defending on the 17th of August!
Carly Martin’s dissertation, Schöne Prose: Language Critique and Biography in the Early Herder…
After close to four decades at The Ohio State University, Bernd Fischer, professor of German, will retire this year. He chaired the department from the end of the 20th century into the beginning…
A pedagogy piece written by Professor Gollance and Caitlin Hatten, a student in her spring semester Yiddish 3371 course, is live on the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project blog.
The…
Congratulations to May Mergenthaler, Associate Professor, who has received an 18-month Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers!
She will use the fellowship to continue…
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, has published together with Emma Betz (University of Waterloo) and Peter Golato (Texas State University) the volume
Professor Matthew Birkhold has won a 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. Congratulations!
He was nominated for the award by Dieter Cunz award-winning senior Elena…
Congratulations to Caleb Davis, who has passed his MA exam.
In his thesis, Caleb wrote about the role of nationalist narratives in commemorative monuments of the mythic character Siegfried…
Drawing on the latest research, Becker-Cantarino's Handbuch places Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859) in her historical and familial context and highlights her networking with intellectuals…
Join us in recognizing the achievements of our majors and minors in Germanic Languages and Literatures – 2019-2020! We will begin by highlighting the winners of our departmental awards. For a full…
Congratulations to Melissa Nolan-Epperson, who has passed her MA exam.
She dealt with two early films from the GDR: Frank Beyer's Nakt unter Wölfen and Konrad Wolf's Sterne…
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, professor of German, researches language interaction often through conversation analysis. She joins host David Staley to define…
Congratulations to our German majors and minors who have been awarded U.S. Student Fulbright Grants to teach English in Germany during the 2020-2021 academic year! Elena Akers:…
Congratulations to Megan Wadas on the successful defense of her Undergraduate Research Honors Thesis - Stereotypes and Language Attitudes: Examining the Perception of German…
GLL undergraduates stole the show at the 25th Anniversary Denman Research Forum, taking the first place in one category and the first and third places in another!
Megan Wadas…
We congratulate Helen Fehervary, Christiane Zehl Romero and Amy Kepple Strawser on the release of their edited volume - Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History (Brill |…
How have tiny houses become dream houses? In her talk, Katra Byram shows how the tiny house movement has made people want less by tapping into a classic story that has its beginnings in German…
Paul Reitter’s translation of The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon was selected as a finalist for the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography and Memoir, an unexpected honor for a new…
Sonia Gollance will be on the dance faculty at the annual Yiddish language and culture festival Yiddish New York (Dec. 21-26, 2019), where she will be one of the instructors for the workshop …
Congratulations to Professor May Mergenthaler and Dr. Kevin Richards for being named STEP mentors for 2019-20.
Mentors are nominated by colleagues, students, and administrators from across…
Professor Matthew Birkhold's opinion piece has been published in the New York Times.
Birkhold wrote A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland after spending…
Many congratulations to Sarah Traylor for successfully defending her dissertation "Sacred Journeys in a Secular Age: Pilgrimage in Contemporary German Literature" with co-advisors Dr. Byram…
GLL's Carolin Mueller is one of fourteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences to have received a Spring 2019 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the…
Master's student Melissa Nolan-Epperson has been selected to participate in a three-week seminar, “Mit Deutsch in die Zukunft,” taking place in Leipzig, Germany from June 16-July 6.
The…
A big congratulations to Maddie Kindig for successfully completing her MA exam with advisor Dr. Paul Reitter and committee member Dr. Robert Holub on April 30th 2019!
Maddie's MA exam was…
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the national Alexander Stephan Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies!
Qingyang Zhou (pictured right) from the
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards.
The 2019 Wolfgang Fleischhauer Scholarship of $1,200 was awarded to Rebecca Gill, who double…
Congratulations go to Budimka Uskokovic for passing her candidacy exam to gain ABD status!
Her committee members were Dr. Ludmila Isurin (Slavic), Dr. Leslie Moore (Teaching and Education),…
Congratulations to Mitchell Walker, a senior German and Physics major who participated in the 2017 Dresden Summer Language Program, for the award of a DAAD RISE scholarship to do research in…
Professor Taleghani-Nikazm has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by the University Institute for Teaching and Learning’s Faculty FIT (Foundation, Impact, Transformation) program…
Ezé Wendtoin and GLL PhD Candidate Carolin Mueller have released a short film entitled Intercultural Communication Through Music. They document his 2018 USA tour, during which he…
Congratulations to Helen Fehervary, Professor Emerita, on the presentation of a Festschrift.
Nineteen contributors wrote for Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and…
We congratulate Gina Wrobel on winning a prestigious research residency fellowship at Innsbruck University!
During her month-long fellowship in Tyrol, Wrobel will analyze part of the data…
We wish to extend hearty congratulations to Hannah Bradley, who has successfully defended her research project (advisor Prof.Mergenthaler) and thus will graduate with a research distinction in…
Kassi Burnett, a doctoral student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Research Fellowship for the spring 2019 semester. Her project…
Carly Martin, Ph.D. candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures (advisor May Mergenthaler) and Graduate Consultant at UCAT (University Center for the Advancement of Teaching) has presented her…
Congratulations to German major Hannah Bradley, who will present her research at the 2018 Fall Undergraduate Research Festival on Nov. 1, from 1:35 to 1:45 p.m. in the Suzanne M Sharer Room in the…
Dr. Kevin Richards received the 2017 Lecturer Teaching Development Grant award as part of an initiative spearheaded by the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT). The grant…
After a study abroad trip aimed at first-time travelers sparked her interest in Germany, Rebecca Rose Martin designed a research project with advisor Carmen Taleghani…
Kassi Burnett, a doctoral student studying Germanic Languages and Literatures, was raised by a family of coal miners and steel mill workers in St. Clairsville in rural Ohio. That upbringing…
Robert Holub, Ohio Eminent Scholar of German and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has recently published a book on Nietzsche’s connections with various discourses of his times. Titled …
GLL Professor Paul Reitter’s article in The New York Review of Books, “The Business of Learning,” looks at liberal higher education and free inquiry through international and historical…
John Michael Sefel, who is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and an MA in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies, saw the play adaptation he wrote and directed come to life on stage at Ohio State: Leah and…
We are pleased to announce our 2018 Distinguished Alumna, Professor Karin A. Wurst (Ph.D. 1985).
Professor Wurst specializes in eighteenth-century Literary and Cultural Studies and Early…
We are pleased to announce the two winners of the national 2018 Alexander Stephan Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies ! The German-language prize has been awarded to Joshua R…
On April 27, Professor Paul Reitter was recognized as a recipient of the University’s Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award at a ceremony attended by President Drake and Provost McPheron. This…
Congratulations to Dennis Schaefer, who successfully defended his master's thesis this semester (photo left with Prof. Davidson and his adviser, Prof. Holub).
In the autumn of 2016, Dennis…
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures proudly salutes the student recipients of its annual awards.
Kate Greer (photo left) was selected to receive the…
David Neal Miller z"l (1946-2018) We honor the life of David Neal Miller. He grew up in Crown Heights within earshot of Ebbets Field. His New York roots were everything to him. ''I'm…
This semester, two of our graduate students passed their candidacy exams to move up to ABD (all but dissertation) status next term.
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Carolin (Caro) Mueller passed her…
The Germanic Graduate Student Association will host its 10th anniversary graduate conference in February 2018 on the main campus of The Ohio State University. This year's theme will be …
An exhibit at the World Gallery in Hagerty Hall will be up until January 8, 2018. “Here I Stand: Life and Work of the German Reformer Martin Luther,” marks the 500th anniversary of the…
Simon Lösch has successfully defended his dissertation, An Obsolete Hegemon? America’s Function in the Imagination of a (Re-)unified German Nation.
Simon began his doctoral studies…
From November 10-12, Budimka Uskokovic attended the annual TA workshop, named Fertigkeitentraining – ohne Lehrbuch, hosted by the Goethe Institute Chicago and funded by the German…
Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, delivered the Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture entitled…
Haley Grubb has been tagged as a ‘Future German Teacher,’ and we are thrilled at hearing the news! On National Teach German Day (October 4th), her high school German teacher, Mrs. Kelly Jessup,…
Last week, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures hosted the DAAD-sponsored “Graduate School Experience” to introduce promising undergraduates to graduate education in German Studies…
The 2017 SLRF Conference was held at Ohio State in October. The four plenary speakers gave excellent talks. Dr. Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon) delivered a lecture entitled "Multidimensional…
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State and the Department of German Studies/Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bonn have established a new…
Our graduate students have been very productive this past year. Harrison Baldwin, Allyn Heath, Bryan Knowlton, Birte Pietsch, Stephanie Walford, and Gina Wrobel all passed their master’s exams…
This summer, Ohio State students are learning German in the city of Dresden. The topic of their course is "Geschichten aus Europa" and you can take a look at the course homepage through this link:…
We are delighted to announce the winner of the first nationwide Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies at Ohio State. From a wealth of excellent submissions, reflecting on the vibrancy of our…
Paul Reitter, professor of German, and director of the Humanities Institute, is one of 21 scholars, writers and artists awarded a coveted 2017-18 Berlin Prize — a semester-long fellowship — by the…
Marcus Breyer has successfully defended his dissertation, Meerstimmigkeiten: Metapher und Modernekritik bei Eduard von Keyserling.
Marcus began his graduate studies at Ohio State in…
On April 12, students in our German for the Professions class (German 4602) visited Hirschvogel, Inc., the only American subsidiary of Hirschvogel Automotive Group. This company is among the world…
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards.
Ann Imke received two prizes this year, the Dieter Cunz Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior…
Scholars of German from across the Midwest gathered to present and discuss their latest research as well as to renew old connections and past associations on April 7th and 8th. The diverse and…
The Department is grateful to learn of the Robert F. Gagel/Margo Cox Endowment Fund, established in November 2016 with gifts from Robert F. Gagel, MD (BA/MD 1971). The fund will provide a…
The Felice M. Grad Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in April 2016 by the Board of Trustees of The Ohio State University with a gift from the estate of Ms. Felice Marcus Grad.
The Germanic Graduate Student Association has hosted its ninth annual graduate student conference here at The Ohio State University. This year’s theme was “At the Fringes of Humanity: The Cyborg and…
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We mourn the passing of Heimy Taylor, who died at her home surrounded by family on March 21, 2017. We remember her modesty, dedicated and…
John (Jay) Gaines, alumnus of the 2016 Dresden Summer Language Program, is currently an intern in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin!
He reports that work has been…
Matthew H. Birkhold has been selected by the Universität Luzern as the 2017 visiting researcher at the Institute lucernaiuris. The Institute is an international hub for the interdisciplinary…
Over the course of the Spring 2017 semester, Graduate Teaching Associate Carolin Müller is undertaking an exciting new teaching project that engages issues of migration in German language…
Bernd Fischer, professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, has edited a special issue of Humanities 2016, 5(4), 86: "Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory,…
Paul Reitter, professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures and director of the Humanities Institute, is co-editor of The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook …
In November, several of our graduate students, Kathrin Frenzel, Caro Müller, Sarah Larson, Dennis Schäfer, and Gina Wrobel, attended the annual TA workshop hosted by the Goethe Institute Chicago…
On November 4, Professor Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Director of Undergraduate Language Instruction and Individualized Instruction, and her cute puppy visited our weekly German conversation table…
On October 22, faculty and graduate students from across the state came together in the Blackwell Conference Center on the Ohio State main campus to present, listen, and ask questions about…
The latest issue of New German Critique, co-edited by Heather Sullivan (Trinity University) and Bernhard Malkmus (Ohio State University), facilitates a dialogue between various disciplines in the…
This autumn, the Department is delighted to welcome our new graduate students.
Our two students from the Technische Universität Dresden, Theresa Bauer and Georg Langner, both hold Bachelor…
Our graduate students have had great success on their master's exams this year.
Katharina Aigner and Seth Warncke, who passed their assessments in May, are…
The blog of the 2016 Dresden Summer Language program is live and the first excursion to Meissen is available for you to enjoy here: http:/…
Bernd Fischer’s latest book, Ein anderer Blick: Saul Aschers politische Schriften, was recently published in Böhlau Wien.
This first monograph on Saul Ascher (1767-1822), a…
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards.
Danielle Meyer received the Dieter Cunz Award for the outstanding undergraduate student in GLL…
After a brief hiatus, German Day is returning on Monday, April 11th!
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures is delighted to welcome 89 students from Dublin…
Congratulations to Samantha and Maxwell, two outstanding undergraduate students who will be participating in GLL’s Summer Language Program in Dresden and have been awarded this year’s two
GLL recently learned that Barbara Heck, who has been teaching at OSU since the autumn of 2008, will receive the 2016 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer. Barb was informed of…
GLL is delighted to announce that Matthew Birkhold will be joining the faculty next fall. His recruitment is the result of a search conducted by the department this past fall and winter. Over 130…
This semester, three of our graduate students passed exams to move up to the next level in their studies.
William Baker, who passed the TestDAF over the summer, went on to earn his Master's…
We mourn the passing of Ilsedore Maria Edse, who died peacefully on December 4, 2015. We remember her great spirit, collegiality and generosity, and her devotion to undergraduate and foreign…
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Robert Holub, professor and our chair, is the author of the new book, Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (Princeton University Press). Holub’s interview…
The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international…
GLL faculty members Bernd Fischer and May Mergenthaler will present papers as well as co-host a panel at the International Association for Germanic Studies in Shanghai, China, August 23 to 31,…
Germanic Languages and Literatures is delighted to welcome seven new graduate students this autumn.
Three of them come from Germany, two from the TU-Dresden (Birte Pietsch and Linh Vu), one…
Our doctoral students have had great success on the job market.
Amber Suggitt, who defended in the spring, has begun teaching at Northern Michigan University. And …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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, 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, 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…
CONFIGURATIONS OF HUMAN BODIES
2015 OSU Germanic Graduate Student Association Conference
--- CALL FOR PAPERS (Undergraduate Panel) ---
Please email a short bio and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…