M.A. in German, University of California, Irvine, 2004
ABD in Applied Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK, 2001
Current Research Interests
German Literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries
Postcolonial and transnational approaches to German, Austrian, and Central European Literature
Cultural Hybridity, Minority and Migration Studies with reference to German-speaking countries
Second Language Acquisition
German Language Pedagogy and Teaching with Technology
Previous Teaching Experience
German Language and Culture (all levels)
Representations of the Holocaust in Art and Literature
Interdisciplinary Humanities
German Masterpieces
German Romantic Fairytales
EFL (all levels)
Approaches to the Analysis of Prose Fiction and Poetry
Literary Stylistics
Overview of Professional Experience
Instructor, Department of German, University of California, Irvine
Oral examiner for the Cambridge University English Language Test
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Timisoara, Romania
Recent Publications
"‘Do they feed you properly up here?' Towards a Gastrosophic Interpretation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.” In Cuisine and Symbolic Capital: Food in Film and Literature, ed. Cheleen Mahar. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 130-149
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"‘Die durch das ungenaue Sehen hervorgerufene Qual.' Encountering Alterity in Robert Musil's Tonka.” In Literatursymposium Österreichischer PEN, Band 100, Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, eds. Peter Pabisch and Wolfgang Greisenegger. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2010. 219-230
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"Global Simulation at the Intersection of Theory and Practice in the Intermediate Level German Classroom." Co-authored with Glenn Levine et al. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 37/2 (2004), 99-116.
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"What Do We Teach When We Teach Literature?” In LancDoc Working Papers, ed. Jane Sunderland. Lancaster: Lancaster University Press, 2000, 100-115.
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Recent Presentations
"Teaching and Learning Facts, Ideas, and (New) Perspectives: A Curriculum Presentation on Cultural Literacy in
University-Level Language Instruction.” Co-authored with Glenn Levine et al. The 4th University of California Language Consortium Conference on Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives (University of California, Santa Barbara), 2008
"K.u.k. postcolonial: Dar Fremdbild der Slawen in Robert Musils Tonka.” International Literature Symposium organized by the Austrian P.E.N. Centre in Vienna and the University of New Mexico (Taos, New Mexico), 2007
"A Botched Death for a Botched Life? The Execution Scene in Kafka's Der Prozeß.” The 103rd Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (Pepperdine University), 2005
"Tackling the Textual Iceberg: New Perspectives on Hemingway's A Very Short Story”. The 24th Annual International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (New York University), 2004
"Wortkonzerte: An Aspect of Language and Culture-Learning in German Instruction”. University of California 2nd Annual Meeting of German Faculty, "Collaborative Curricular Design: Intermediate and Advanced German Instruction at UC” (University of California, Santa Cruz), 2004
"‘Mit der ganzen Majestät unseres Ich': Concepts of Masculinity in Arthur Schnitzler's Die Braut” The 119th MLA Annual Convention (San Diego), 2003
Select Awards, Honors, Fellowships
Faculty and Graduate Research Development Grant (with Prof. Kai Evers), UC Irvine, 2008
University of California Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, 2007
Instructor of the Year in the Humanities, UC Irvine, 2005
Best Article of the Year by the Journal Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2004
British Council Teacher Training Fellowship at the University College of St. Mary & St. John, Plymouth, U.K, 1997
Cambridge University Teacher Development Fellowship, Cambridge University, UK, 1995
Curriculum Vita
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