About us
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University is home to one of the oldest and largest German and Germanic studies programs in the country. Its sixteen faculty members offer a comprehensive course of study that covers literary and cultural studies, intellectual history and German for the professions as well as in-depth specializations that include film studies, aesthetic philosophy, gender studies, cognitive studies, minority literature, ecocriticism, second language studies, Germanic linguistics, and Scandinavian Studies.