In the past ten years, graduate students from the German department have gone on to receive tenure-track and visiting positions at the following institutions:
- Kenyon College
- Smith College
- College of Charleston
- Auburn University
- Kansas State University
- Michigan State University
- University of Southern Indiana
- Harper College
- University of Houston
- University of Alabama
- University of Nebraska
- Linkoping University (Sweden)
- Dickinson College
- Bradley College
- University of Memphis
- Butler University
- University of Montana
- University of Huntsville
- Central College
- University of Tulsa
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Elon University
- University of Oklahoma
- Georgia State University
- Monterey Institute of International Studies
- Wake Forest University
- Williams College
- Lafayette College
- Bowdoin College
- University of British Columbia
- Southern Utah University
- Oakland University
- University of Alberta