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Yiddish Theatre production at Ohio State

The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project & class design

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…

May Mergenthaler Germanic LL Ohio State

Mergenthaler receives Fellowship and Research Award

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…

cover Mobilizing Others: Grammar and Lexis within Larger Activities

Taleghani-Nikazm publishes volume

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…

Matthew Birkhold wins 2020 Undergrad Research Mentoring Award at OSU

Birkhold wins 2020 Mentoring Award

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…

Caleb Davis MA Germanic LL at Ohio State

Davis's MA success!

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…

Bettina von Arnim Handbuch 2020 de Gruyter

Becker-Cantarino publishes Bettina von Arnim Handbuch

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 and artists…

Frau Heck mit Studenten in Hagerty

Celebrating our German majors and minors

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.…

Nolan-Epperson MA2020 Ohio State Germanic Dept.

Nolan-Epperson's MA success!

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. Both…

Taleghani-Nikazm on how we use language to get help from others

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, professor of German, researches language interaction often through conversation analysis. She joins host David Staley to define conversation analysis and…