Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State

05/12/2022

https://germanic.osu.edu/news/consul-general-wolfgang-mossinger-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 Ohio State on May 4 to open a dialogue with current and former exchange students, scientists, researchers, and f...

04/26/2022

Congratulations to our Germanic majors, minors, and graduates from the GLL faculty and staff at The Ohio State University!

04/21/2022

https://germanic.osu.edu/news/grotans-awarded-2022-alumni-award-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 semester after semester, Anna Grotans’s course preparation is exemplary, and her student and peer evaluations are superla...

04/18/2022

https://germanic.osu.edu/news/hats-our-2022-departmental-award-winners

Congratulations to our undergraduates and graduate students for their hard work and achievements this year!!

We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards this year.

04/18/2022

Hurrah! Budimka Uskokovic has defended with vim and vigour!!

Hearty congratulations to Budimka for successfully defending on April 11th! Budimka Uskokovic's dissertation, Intercultural Communicative Competence in German: A Conversation Analytic Approach, focuses on the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in learners of German language....

01/27/2022

We are saddened by this news ...

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 Department of German at The Ohio State University.

10/05/2021

Living culture and interesting discussions in our German classes this week as autumn arrives!

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, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc.) where the traditional autumn festivities take place. Tracht is the garb tr...

09/01/2021

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 of Chicago Press, Studies in the History of the University).

05/24/2021

Congratulations Bill!

Hearty congratulations to Bill for successfully defending in April!

05/13/2021

Congratulations on a co-authored article!

May Mergenthaler, Associate Professor, and Kassi Burnett, Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Katra Byram, have co-published an article in German in a special issue, “Ökologie” (Non Fiktion. Arsenal der anderen Gattungen 2021).

05/07/2021

Congratulations to our GLL majors and minors!

Join us in recognizing the achievements of our majors and minors in Germanic Languages and Literatures – 2020-2021! The 2020-21 Dieter Cunz Outstanding Graduating Senior is Haley Grubb (German, History, Medieval & Renaissance Studies). Our Wolfgang Fleischhauer Scholar next year will be Alex Corpu...

03/12/2021

A chance to learn more about one of the most important stories of World War II! Already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture, The Light of Days, by Judy Batalion, is a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who bec...