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 a PhD in German Studies from Ohio State in 1985, describing her time here as “an extremely exciting time for a budding Germanist.” She taught for one more year and then accepted a position at the University of Arkansas as a Visiting Assistant Professor. By 1988, Prof. Wurst had secured a tenure-track position at Michigan State University, was granted tenure after the first probationary period, and within ten years, had been promoted to Full Professor.

Prof. Wurst recalled that the completion of her dissertation was greatly helped along by her final year as a Presidential Fellow. “My preparation was such that I felt that I could (and did) hit the ground running! My excellent experience made me determined that I wanted to become a faculty member at a large public RO1 university. And indeed when I joined the faculty at Michigan State University, I very much felt at home.”

Read more on Ohio State University’s site.

[Original article: https://germanic.osu.edu/about-us/meet-our-distinguished-alumni/karin-.-wurst]