俄亥俄州立大学日耳曼语言文学系是该国历史最悠久，规模最大的德语和日耳曼研究计划之一。它的16名教职人员提供全面的学习课程，涵盖文学和文化研究，知识史和德语专业，以及包括电影研究，美学哲学，性别研究，认知研究，少数民族文学，生态批评，第二语言研究，日耳曼语言学和斯堪的纳维亚研究。
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.