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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,…