Patrick Kelley received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MSU in May 2018 and currently works at Amazon as a language engineer, where he works with technologies to improve Amazon’s Alexa,…
Professor Matthew Handelman's monograph, The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory appeared in March 2019 with Fordham University Press. Book cover From the publisher: This book…
Spotlight - Jenny Gohlke Goethe's Faust, that is how it all started. Maybe. In fact, I do not remember when exactly I came to love German Literature so much. Books have…
Spotlight - Sarah Scarbrough : During my first few weeks here at MSU, after telling people my major, I got a lot of “oh… interesting,” in response. But as the weeks…
Spotlight - Christian Klein No one ever asked my friends, who intended to study medicine or engineering, for the reasons of their choices. But I was always asked why I…
Alumnus Scott Osdras’ study abroad to China as an MSU student double majoring in Chinese and Comparative Cultures and Politics ignited in him what would become his future career as…
Leonie Hintze is a graduate student in the College of Arts and Letters, studying German in a Master’s program. Leonie came to the United States 13 years ago from Germany,…
Professor Karin Wurst has been named the 2018 Distinguished Alumna at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. From OSU's website: Karin A. Wurst earned…
Citizen Scholar Margo Skornia, a junior with a double major in Theatre and Chinese, received funding from the Citizen Scholars program to help pay for her two-month study abroad trip…
Dr. Yen-Hwei Lin has been appointed Acting Interim Chair of the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, effective November 5, 2018, through August 15, 2019. A…