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Ciolino to graduate "with Research Distinction" in German
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…

Hats Off to our 2023 departmental award winners!
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 double majors in…

Weisser receives GATA (Graduate Associate Teaching Award)
Students and faculty congratulate Fabia Weisser on receiving the GATA, Ohio State's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching…

Alexander Kling to visit in SP23
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…

Release of the newest volume in Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series
The newest volume in the Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series has been published. We congratulate Professor Emerita Helen Fehervary on this latest release. …

Yiddish course students contribute to the dramaturgy of the production of Paula Vogel's Indecent
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…

Richards appears on podcast 'Liquid Margins'
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” and Oktoberfest in Columbus
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 free coffee,…

Fulbright Winners in GLL announced!
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…