TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
 

Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, California State Univ., Chico, 2004-

Coordinate first-year language program, contribute to all aspects of curriculum development, teach all undergraduate levels of German language, literature, culture.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, California State Univ., Chico, 1998-2004.
Co-coordinate German Studies program, contribute to all aspects of curriculum development, teach all undergraduate levels of German language, literature, and culture.
Post-Doctoral Lecturer, Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Languages, Penn State University, 1997/98.
Taught: Elementary German and German Conversation and Composition. Coordinated Conversation and Composition.
Visiting Instructor, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Philipps-Univ. Marburg, 1996/97.
Designed & taught: Practical Exercises in Writing English, The USA in the American Media.
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of German, Penn State Univ., 1991-1996.
Taught: Elementary German I & II, Intermediate German, Conversation and Composition, Intensive Intermediate German for Honors Students.
Instructor, Summer Intensive Language Institute, Penn State Univ., 1994, 1996.
Co-taught eight-week intensive course in Elementary and Intermediate German.
 

EDUCATION:
 
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Ph.D. in German, August 1998, GPA 4.0/4.0
Thesis: Witz in Enlightenment Thought and in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Critical Theory and Literary Practice [table of contents & abstract]; passed with highest distinction
Advisor: Dr. Markus Winkler
Examination areas: Medieval to 20th-century Literature, Friedrich Schiller, German Drama and Theater; passed with distinction
M.A. in German, May 1994, GPA 4.0/4.0
Paper: Zum Verständnis von Gottfried Kellers 'Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe'
Examination areas: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Naturalism, the Novella; passed with distinction
Colby College, Waterville, ME
B.A., History major, German minor, May 1991, magna cum laude

STUDY ABROAD:
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 1996/97
Pädagogische Hochschule Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany, 1992/93
University of Sussex, Brighton, England, 1990
Colby in Lübeck Exchange Program, Trave Gymnasium, Kücknitz, Germany, 1988
 

SCHOLARSHIP IN PEDAGOGY & TEACHING:
 
TEXTBOOKS:


Alles klar?: An Integrated Approach to German Language and Culture, with Karl F. Otto, Jr., Wolff von Schmidt, and Cindy Jorth. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Surf's Up! Website Workbook for Basic German, with Linda Moehle-Vieregge and Sabrina Bird, Guilford, CT: Audio-Forum. 1st ed. 1996, 2nd rev. ed. 1997, 3rd rev. ed. 1998.


TEXTBOOK SUPPLEMENTS:


Alles klar? Workbook / Lab Manual, with Karl F. Otto, Jr., Wolff von Schmidt, and Cindy Jorth. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Alles klar? Instructor Resource Manual (with Testing Program), with Karl F. Otto, Jr., Wolff von Schmidt, and Cindy Jorth. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Alles klar? Companion Website, with Cindy Jorth. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/allesklar/, 2004.


Die Deutsche Grammatik klar gemacht, with Karl F. Otto, Jr., Wolff von Schmidt, and Cindy Jorth. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach, interactive website to accompany first-year textbook, with Cindy Jorth, New York: McGraw-Hill, with Cindy Jorth,http://www.csuchico.edu/flng/german/kontakte/.

Supporting Website for Surf’s Up!: Website Workbook for Basic German, with Linda Moehle-Vieregge, 1997-99.

MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE:

Mord in Mainz, Role-Play Murder Mystery for Intermediate German, with Cindy Jorth, Terri Nelson, and Walter Oliver, Heinle / Thomson Learning, 2004.

Alles klar?. Video Program, with Karl F. Otto, Jr., Wolff von Schmidt, and Cindy Jorth. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Authorware for Producing Communicative Foreign Language Activities, with Cindy Jorth and Terri Nelson, freeware for CSU Strategic Language Initiative (SLI), 2001.


ARTICLES & TEACHING IDEAS:

“Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Merging Theories of Second Language Acquisition and Online Practices,” with Cindy Jorth, Proceedings of Syllabus 2000, http://www.syllabus.com/syllabus2000/proceedingsinfo.cfm?ID=2, August 2000.

“Moving Online with WebCT: Examining the Viability of WebCT in Theory and Practice," with Cindy Jorth, Proceedings of Syllabus99, http://www.syllabus.com/syll99_proceedings/%20MOVI.HTM, August 1999.

“Tauschhandel,” and  “Einmaleins,” AATG Teaching Ideas, vol. 5, eds.  John F. Lalande II, Kathleen Condray, and Michael May, American Association of Teachers of German, 1999.

“Berufsspiel,” “Verb Tense Game,” and  “Wer bin ich? II,” AATG Teaching Ideas, vol. 3, eds. Lynne Tatlock and Carol Jenkins, American Association of Teachers of German, 1996.

“The Collaborative Fairy-Tale,” Virtual Connections, ed. Mark Warschauer, Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 20-21, 1995.



REVIEW:

“Interactive Language Learning: The Authoring System,” by Steve Cushion and Dominique Hemard, in The CALICO Review and CALICO Journal, Fall 2001.


CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS:


“An E-Approach to Culture in First-Year Language,” Digital Stream 5th Annual Conference, CSU-Monterey Bay, Mar. 2003.

“'Teaching' Culture in First-Year Language Courses: A Constructivist Approach,” American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2002 Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2002.

“Interactive Web Templates,” workshop with Cindy Jorth, Terri Nelson, and Walter Oliver, CALICO 2001: Technologies for Foreign Language Learning: Using the Proven and Proving the New, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2001.

“Interactive Online Activities and JavaScript: A Communicative Approach,” American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2000 Annual Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 2000.

“An Interactive Web-Based Approach to Increasing Foreign Language Proficiency,” 6th Annual CELT Conference, CSU, Chico, Sept. 2000.

“Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Merging Theories of Second Language Acquisition and Online Practices,”with Cindy Jorth, Syllabus 2000, Santa Clara, CA, July 2000.

“Online Interactivity: Promoting Communicative Proficiency with JavaScript,” with Cindy Jorth, CALICO 2000: Core Technologies: Impact for the Future,” University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, June 2000.

“Promoting Communicative Competence Online: A Model for Elementary German,” with Cindy Jorth, STRLNG Workshop, CSU, Chico, May 2000.

“Integrating Technology into the German Curriculum via Cyberportfolios,” American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 1999 Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, Nov. 1999.
 
“Technology and Student-Centered Learning: Effective Integration Using Cyberportfolios,” 5th Annual CELT Conference, CSU, Chico, Sept. 1999.

“Moving Online With Web CT: Two Perspectives,” with Cindy Jorth, Syllabus ‘99, Santa Clara, CA, July 1999.
 

SCHOLARSHIP IN GERMAN STUDIES:


BOOK MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS:


Witz and the Aesthetics of German Enlightenment


ARTICLES:

“From Witz Culture to Cult of Genius: Lessing and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics,” Monatshefte 92.2 (Summer 2000): 111-122.


“Ingeborg Bachmann,” “Sara Kirsch,” and “Monika Maron,” Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, ed. Jane Eldrige Miller, New York: Routledge, 2000.

“Witz,” with Markus Winkler, in the Historisches Wörterbuch ästhetischer Grundbegriffe, eds. Karlheinz Barck, Martin Fontius, Dieter Schlenstedt, Burkhardt Steinwachs and Friedrich Wolfzettel, vol. 3, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, forthcoming 2003.



TRANSLATIONS:

“The Female as Ethical Resource in the Philosophy of Hegel,” by Heidemarie Bennent- Vahle, Re-reading the Feminist Critique in German, eds. Herta Nagl-Docekal and Cornelia Klinger, Penn State Univ. Press, Nov. 2000.

“Fin-de siècle Vienna: A Movement for or against Womanhood? Some Thoughts on Weininger and Freud,” by Ingvild Birkhan, Re-reading the Feminist Critique in German, eds. Herta Nagl-Docekal and Cornelia Klinger, Penn State Univ. Press, Nov. 2000.
 
BOOK REVIEWS:



Stephanie Hammer. Schiller's Wound. The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2001. In: German Studies Review 26: 2, 2003.

Kathy Saranpa. Schiller's Wallenstein, Maria Stuart, and Die Jungfrau von Orleans. The Critical Legacy. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. In: German Studies Review 26: 2, 2003.

Katherine R. Goodman. Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1999.In: Eighteenth-Century Women 2, Spring 2002.

David G. John. Images of Goethe through Schiller’s Egmont. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1998. In: German Studies Review 24.1, 2001..

Richard R. Ruppel. Gottfried Keller and his Critics: A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism. Columbia, SC: Camden, 1998. In: German Studies Review 23.3, Oct. 2000, 596-97.

Andrea Bartl, Jürgen Eder, Harry Fröhlich, Klaus Dieter Post, and Ursula Regener, eds. “In Spuren gehen ...” Festschrift für Helmut Koopmann. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1998. In: Colloquia
Germanica 33, 2000.

Ulrike Weckel. Zwischen Häuslichkeit und Öffentlichkeit: Die ersten deutschen Frauenzeitschriften im späten 18. Jahrhundert und ihr Publikum. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1998. In: Women in German Newsletter,
Spring 2000.


Schlossbauer, Frank. Literatur als Gegenwelt: Zur Geschichtlichkeit literarischer Komik am Beispiel Fischarts und Lessings. New York: P. Lang, 1998. Lessing Yearbook 32, 1999.

Gokhale, Vibha Bakshi. Walking the Tightrope: A Feminist Reading of Therese Huber’s Stories. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1996. In: Women in German Newsletter, Spring 1999.

La Roche, Sophie von. Tagebuch einer Reise durch Holland und England. Reprint of 1788 ed. Preface by Barbara Becker-Cantarino. Karben: Petra Wald, 1997. In: Women in German Newsletter, Fall 1998.  

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS:


“The Journey to Genius in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics,” Humanities Center, CSU, Chico, Nov. 2001.

“Gendered Visions of Poetic Identity in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s ‘Am Thurme’ and Percy Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’,” Interdisciplinary Nineteeth-Century Studies Conference: Ways of Seeing, University of Paris-X, Nanterre, France, June 2000.

“The Current Crisis in German Higher Education,” German Brown Bag Lunch Series, CSU, Chico, May 2000.

“Günter Grass and German Reunification: A Critical Voice,” Günter Grass Symposium, CSU, Chico, May 2000.

“Reflections on the Wall: 1989/1999,” Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall: 10th Anniversary,” CSU, Chico, Nov. 1999.

“Goethe and the Question of German National Identity,” German Brown Bag Lunch Series, CSU, Chico, Oct. 1999.

“The Language of Silence as a Principle of Enlightenment in the Works of G.E. Lessing,” German Studies Association 1999 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1999.

“The Legacy of Weimar: European Cultural Capital 1999,” German Brown Bag Lunch Series, CSU, Chico, May 1999.

“The Limits of Analogy: G.E. Lessing's Witz Theory (Re-)Examined,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Apr. 1998.

“The Poetics of Wit in German Enlightenment Thought: the Pivotal Role of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,” Comparative Literature Luncheon, Penn State Univ., Mar. 1998.

“The Soul of Twentieth-Century Wit Through the Eyes of German Enlightenment Aesthetics,” Graduate Research Exhibition, Penn State Univ., Mar. 1998.

“Subtextual Clues in Gottfried Keller's ‘Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe’,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Spokane, WA, Oct. 1995.

HONORS, AWARDS, & GRANTS:

CSU Strategic Language Initiative (SLI) Grant, with Cindy Jorth and Terri Nelson (2001) - $4000
CSU Strategic Language Initiative (SLI) Grant, with Cindy Jorth (2000/01) - $5000
CELT Small Award for Instruction - $300 (2003); (2002) [2]; (2001); [2] (2000); [2] (1999)
CELT Learning Productivity Project Grant, with Cindy Jorth - $9182 (1999/2000)
Dissertation Support Grant (1998)
Regina L. Thompson Scholarship for German and Russian Studies (1996)
Graduate Teaching Award Nominee (1996)
Delta Phi Alpha Honor Society (1992)
Senior Book Prize in German (1991)
William J. Wilkinson History Prize for Seniors (1991)
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (1991) Paul A. Fullam Junior Prize in History (1990)
Charles A. Dana Scholarship (1989), awarded for academic excellence and leadership
Julius S. Bixler Scholarship (1988), awarded for outstanding academic achievement
State of Maine Blaine House Scholars Award (1987)



UNIVERSITY SERVICE:



California State Univ., Chico
Service to the College and University:
Academic Senator / EPPC Standing Committee (2003-2006 term)
Academic Senator / EPPC Standing Committee (proxy for Don Miller, Spring 2003)
Library Advisory Committee (2002-present)
College of HFA General Education Review Committee (1999/2000)
College of HFA Assessment Committee (1999/2000),
Getting Connected Faculty Mentor (1999/2000)
IP Study Abroad Interviewer (1999-present)
CSU Foreign Language Learning Outcomes Workshop Participant (Apr. 1999)
 
Service to the Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures:
Spanish Section Lab Training Presenter (2001)
CSU Strategic Language Initiative Committee (1998-2001)
Fall Application Day Participant (1998-present)
Department Curriculum Committee (1998-2001)
Faculty Merit Increase (FMI) Committee (2000/01)
Foreign Language Outcomes Workshop Participant (Apr. 1999)
Multimedia Language Lab Committee (1998-2000)
Foreign Languages & Literatures Colloquium Committee (Fall 1999)
Graduation Representative (1999-present)
Steering Committee (1998/99)
Travel Committee (1998/99)
Freshman Orientation (August 1999)

Service to the German Section:
Major / Minor Advisor (1998-present)
Single Subject Credential Advisor (1998-present)
Interviewer for Mainz Exchange Program (1998-present)
German Studies Club Co-Advisor (1998-present)
Developer of Assessment Tools for German Majors (1999/2000)
Developer of Assessment Tools for German General Education Courses (1999/2000)
Coordinator of German Studies (1998/99).

Additional service and outreach activities:
Annual German-American Heritage Week, creator and organizer, every October, 2001-present.
"Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Using the Internet in the German Curriculum," workshop for high school teachers of German with Magda Mueller, CSU, Chico, Mar. 2001.
6th Annual German Day, co-organized with Magda Mueller, attended by over 450 high school students of German, October 2000.
5th Annual German Day, co-organized with Magda Mueller, attended by over 200 high school students of German, October 1999.
German Conversation Hour Director, organize, promote and attend weekly, Fall 1998-present.
Founder and listowner of German@CSU, Chico Listserv, at german@galaxy.csuchico.edu, 1999-. A discussion and information forum for students interested in German in Chico. [For more info: http://www.csuchico.edu/flng/german/listserv.htm],
Author and webmaster of CSU, Chico German Studies website: http://www.csuchico.edu/flng/german/german.htm/, 1999-. Update site regularly.
Author and webmaster of German Studies Club website: http://www.csuchico.edu/gsc/, 1999-.


Philipps-Univ. Marburg
Fulbright Selection Committee (1997)

Pennsylvania State Univ., Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Graduate Committee  (1997/98)
German Day Committee (1995/96)
Future Planning Committee (1995/96)
Awards Committee (1994/95)
German Club Co-Advisor (1991/92).



PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
 
Session Organizer and Chair, “Culture in the Classroom,” American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Annual Confernce, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2002.

Textbook Reviewer, Heinle / Thomson Learning, Fall 2001.

Session Chair, “Demonstrating Discourse Features Through Authentic Speech Video,” “Phonagogue-A Template for Phonetics Activities,” “Knowledge Construction and Template-Based Learning: New Technologies and Language Learning in Theory and Practice,” “Self-Paced Language Instruction: Technology and the Beginning Language Learner,” “Exploring New Venues-Integrating Web-Based Course Tools into Foreign Language and Culture Instruction,” CALICO 2001: Technologies for Foreign Language Learning: Using the Proven and Proving the New University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2001.

Session Organizer and Chair, “CALL and the Communicative Approach: Bridging the Gap,” American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Annual Confernce, Boston, MA, Nov. 2000.

AATG Essay Evaluator, AATG National Essay Contest for High School Students of German, 1995, 1996.

Editorial Assistant, Heine Newsletter #20, Heine Society of North America, 1994.



PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
 
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
CALICO
The Lessing Society
German Studies Association (GSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Women in German (WiG)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Course Completed:
"CGI Programming for the Web," 6-week online course, Butte College, Spring 2001.

Workshops Attended:
"Building Databases," CALICO 2001, University of Florida, Orlando, Mar. 2001.
"Distance Learning: Using Interactive TV," hosted by Univ. of Hawaii, Dec. 2000.
"Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom," CELT Conference, Sept. 1998.
"Creating a Teaching Portfolio," CELT Conference, Sept. 1998.

CSU Information Technology Training:
"Introduction to FilemakerPro 3.0," TLP June 1999.
"Using Audio and Video to Deliver Instruction," IMC, Nov. 1998.
"WebCT 104: File Management," TLP, Oct. 1998.
"WebCT 105: Evaluation Tools," TLP, Oct. 1998.
"WebCT 101: Introduction to WebCT," TLP, Sept. 1998.

See also Conferences attended, above.

Last modified July 2004.