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Gustav Grimm and Haley Grubb in Tracht September 2022 in front of Hagerty Hall

“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 2022-23 at Ohio State

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…

Interview with Professor Merrill Kaplan "How Defamatory Is “Goblin Mode” to Real Goblins?"

Professor Kaplan discusses "Goblin Mode"

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 Moessinger at Ohio State

Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger meets students

Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger and Fabrizio Micalizzi, assistant to the coordinator of transatlantic cooperation, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chicago visited…

Grotans wins Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022

Grotans awarded the 2022 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching

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…

Uskokovic and Taleghani-Nikazm PhD defense Germanic LL Ohio State

Uskokovic Defends Her Dissertation

Hearty congratulations to Budimka for successfully defending on April 11th!

Budimka Uskokovic's dissertation, Intercultural Communicative Competence in German: A Conversation Analytic…

Hats Off to the 2022 GLL departmental award winners at Ohio State

Hats Off to our 2022 departmental award winners!

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 double majors in…

Clavo Abbass GLL graduate student and President of CGS 2022

Clavo Abbass elected as CGS President

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…

Matthew Johnson to head Yiddish program at Ohio State from Autumn 2022

Johnson to direct Yiddish program in GLL

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…