We join family, friends, colleagues, and students, in mourning the passing in December 2025 of Lisbeth Hock, who graduated from Washington University in 1998 with a PhD in Germanic Languages. Her twenty-seven-year university career was devoted to the study of women’s writing, women’s issues, gender, and race; the promotion of diversity and inclusion; and the teaching of the German language in a globalizing world. In 2001, after a three-year visiting professorship at the College of Wooster, Dr. Hock joined the faculty at Wayne State University where she was promoted to associate professor in 2008. Ever open to experimentation and pedagogical innovation, she early implemented technology in the language classroom and pursued curricular reform that leveraged interdisciplinarity to bring together faculty and students across university departments and academic specialties. Her extensive scholarly examination of representations of melancholy in nineteenth-century German women’s writing yielded several ground-breaking articles, including one honored with the annual Women in German article prize in 2011. Simultaneously pursuing her passionate interests in German language pedagogy and German literature and culture, Dr. Hock in later years co-curated a special issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis on German Studies in a global age and co-edited the pathbreaking anthology Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora with the University of Toronto Press.