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Cynthia Porter 2021 ModLang

Cynthia Porter to join the GLL faculty next fall

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…

Education in an Embodied Internet interview with Staley and Richards

Education in an Embodied Internet (Metaverse)

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…

Professor Lavern J Rippley in memoriam

LaVern J. Rippley, our 2019 Distinguished Alumnus, passes away

  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…

Spencer publishes essay on Einstürzende Neubauten

Spencer publishes essay on Einstürzende Neubauten

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 by noted…

Book cover Anna Seghers, Der Kopflohn 2021 critical edition

Newest volume in Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series released

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 latest…

watercolor illustration by Tatiana Melnikova

Fairy Tales Exhibit in Hagerty Hall

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 course of the same name…

Ohio State German lesson involving Tracht

'Tracht' brought to life in German classes

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…

Holub book 2016

Chicago Jewish Café interviews Prof. Holub

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 GLL The Ohio State University

Reitter and Wellmon publish volume

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 Age (U…