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CURRICULUM VITAE – DECEMBER 2012

CORINNA KAHNKE

E-mail: [email protected]

Department of German Languages and Literatures at Duke University Tel: 919.660.3170

P.O. Box 90259, Durham, North Carolina 27708 Fax: 919.660.3166

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of the Practice of German and Language Program Director, German

Languages and Literatures, Assistant Director of Duke in Berlin (summer), Affiliated Faculty

Member of the Women’s Studies Department and the Sexuality Studies Program at Duke

University, Durham, North Carolina (2010 – present)

Lecturer of German, Head of German Program in the Department of Modern Languages and

Literatures, Affiliated Faculty Member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California (2007 – 2010)

EDUCATION

2001-2007 Indiana University, Bloomington Ph.D. in Modern German Literature and Culture (August 2007)

Minor in Cultural Studies (May 2003) Dissertation

“Gender (Trouble) in the Generation Golf - Popliteratur in 1990s’ Germany”

Gender serves as a cipher, a code within Popliteratur. Deciphering this code and

reading Popliteratur through “gender-glasses” provides a key to unlocking

Popliteratur’s understanding of current events and the (gender/ed) situation in

Germany.

Committee: Claudia Breger (Chair), Ingeborg Hoesterey, Benjamin Robinson,

Marc Weiner

2000-2001 University of Nebraska, Lincoln

German

M.A., Modern Languages and Literatures (German)

1997-1998 Glasgow University Erasmus Stipend, Theology

1996-2000 Universität zu Tübingen

Germanistik, Theologie and Anglistik

Zwischenprüfung in Anglistik

1994-1996 Universität zu Heidelberg

Germanistik and Theologie

Zwischenprüfung in Germanistik and Theology

mailto:[email protected]

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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

20th - 21

st century German cinema

20th - 21

st - century German-language literature and culture

Feminist and Queer theory

Musical sub-cultures

Pedagogy

Poetry

Popular literature and culture

Second Language Acquisition

PUBLICATIONS

“Made in Germany – The Politics of Teaching “German” Popular Culture in the 21

st Century”,

co-authored with Maria Stehle. In: in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 44.1 (Winter

2011)

“Intercourse as Discourse in Alexa Hennig von Lange’s Relax.” Contemporary Women’s Writing

and the Return of Feminism in Germany. Special Issue. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First

Century Literature, 35.1. Manhattan. Kansas State University (Winter 2011)

FORTHCOMING

Popular Music in 21st Century Germany: Politics, Histories, and Trajectories. Special Issue.

Popular Music. Edited Volume. Collaboration with Maria Stehle (forthcoming 2013)

“Transnational Teutonen – Rammstein Representing the Berlin Republic.” In: Popular Music in

21st Century Germany: Politics, Histories, and Trajectories. Special Issue. Edited Volume

(forthcoming 2013)

“Generation Golf meets Zonenkinder.” Popliteratur. Maggie McCarthy, ed. New York: De

Gruyter (forthcoming 2013)

“Rammstein Rocking the Republic - A Cultural Reading of a Germany's Shock 'n' Roll Circus”

In: Fire, Flames and Ashes. New Perspectives on Rammstein. McFarland (forthcoming 2013)

BOOK REVIEWS

Marven, Lyn and Stuart Taberner (Ed.) Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-

First Century. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011 (requested by Women in German Newsletter

for Spring 2013).

Feiereisen, Florence. Der Text als Soundtrack, der Autor als DJ. Postmoderne und postkoloniale

Samples bei Thomas Meinecke. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011 (requested by

Women in German Newsletter for Spring 2013).

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Marven, Lyn and Stuart Taberner (Ed.) Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-

First Century. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011 (requested by Colloquia Germanica for

Spring 2013)

Wagner, Andrea Maria. Unheimliches im Wald. Level A1. Stuttgart, Klett, 2009; reviewed in Die

Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 44.1 (Fall 2011)

Hester Baer. Dismantling the Dream Factory. Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest

for New Film Language. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009; reviewed in Women in

German Newsletter (Summer 2010)

WORK IN PROGRESS

German-language textbook geared toward 3rd-year learners in German Cultural Studies.

Collaboration with Faye Stewart (in negotiations with Pearson Education)

Article “Projekt: Theater! - Von der Bühne ins Klassenzimmer“ to be submitted to Die

Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German

Monograph based on dissertation “Gender (Trouble) in the Generation Golf”

CONFERENCES AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

National Conferences

Presentations

“Aesthetic Program or Annihilation? – Gender(ed) Violence in Popliteratur.” Women in German

Annual Conference, Shawnee, DW (2012)

“Franziska flirtet mit Friederike – An Approach to Teaching GLBTQ Issues in the Everyday

German Language, Literature and Culture Classroom.” ACTFL/AATG, Denver, CA (2011)

“Unpacking the Knapsack(s) to Explore Intersectionality in German Literature and Culture

Classes.” Women in German Annual Conference, Augusta, MI (2011)

“Feline Fantasies? - Akif Pirincci Narrating the Berlin Republic.” German Studies Association,

Louisville, KY (2011)

Roundtable: “Successful College German Studies Programs: In Honor of Helene Zimmer-Loew.”

German Studies Association, Louisville, KY (2011)

“A Good Bye to Good Bye, Lenin! ?.”ACTFL/AATG, Boston, MA (2010)

“Transnational Teutonen - Rammstein Representing the Berlin Republic.” German Studies

Association, Oakland (2010)

“Queering (Post)Feminism in Popliteratur: Elke Nater's Lügen.” German Studies Association,

Washington, DC (2009)

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“The Artificial Silk Student,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New

Orleans, LA (2009)

“‘Unpacking the Gender Knapsack’ - Exploring Privilege in a German Youth Culture Class.”

ACTFL/AATG, Orlando, FL (2008)

“Talking ‘bout My Generation Golf – Popliteratur in the German Culture Classroom.”

ACTFL/AATG, Orlando, FL (2008)

“One Nation Under Pop – Zonenkinder, Generation Golf and Re-Unification.” American

Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA (2008)

“Rebels with Nußecken and Fönwellen. The 1990s Schlager Revival in Germany and its

Performance at the Grand Prix de la Chanson d’Eurovision.” Popular Culture

Association/American Culture Association, San Francisco, CA (2008)

“How German is the Generation Golf? Florian Illies’ and Jana Hensel’s Performative

Nationalism.” German Studies Association, San Diego, CA (2007)

“More Than a Trip Down Memory Lane: Nostalgie, Ostalgie and Popliteratur.” Symposion:

Nach der dritten “Stunde Null”: Deutsche Gegenwartsliteraturen. Williamstown, MA (2007)

“‘Frauen kommen langsam aber gewaltig’ - Female Authors in the Male-Dominated Genre

Popliteratur.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA (2006)

“‘Definitely Maybe’ - Judith Butler, 90s Popliteratur and the Search for Identity.” Popular

Culture Association/American Culture Association, Atlanta, GA (2006)

“Creating a GLBT-Friendly Language Classroom: An Everyday Approach for Fostering

Tolerance Among Students of all Orientations.” Collaboration with Elisabeth Bridges, Women in

German Annual Conference, Carrolton, KY (2003)

Panel Work

ACTFL/AATG, Denver, CA (2011):

Organizer/Chair: “Bunte Republik Deutschland? – Everyday Teaching Approaches for Diversity

in the German Language, Literature and Culture Classroom (I), (II)

GSA, Louisville, KY (2011)

Co-Organizer: “Queering the Creature: Animals, Agency, and Allegory in Contemporary

Literature”

Co-Organizer: “From Sonderzug nach Pankow to Das alles ist Deutschland – Popular Music and

National Identity in the Berlin Republic,” German Studies Association, Oakland (2010)

Co-Organizer: “Berlin Soundscapes: Constructing Berlin’s Identity in Popular and Alternative

Music, 1990-2010,” German Studies Association, Oakland (2010)

Co-Organizer, “Queering the Gaze: Film and Feminism in the Foreign-Language and Literature

Classroom,” Women in German Annual Conference, Augusta, MI (2009)

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Co-Organizer, “Mutterlos im Faserland?! – Absent and Failed Mothers in Contemporary German

Literature and Culture,” German Studies Association, Washington, DC (2009)

Chair, “Not so Plain as Black and White,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture

Association, New Orleans, LA (2009)

Co-Organizer, “New Women Writers in the “Berlin Republic,” Modern Language Association

Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (2007)

Co-Organizer, “Fear of a Pop Planet: Nationalism and Identity in Popular Literature from the

Generation Golf.” German Studies Association, San Diego (2007)

Regional Conferences

Presentations

“Framing Darkness: Mobilizing Goth Media for the German Language and Literature

Classroom.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Winston-Salem, NC (2012)

“Viewing the DDR: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) and Das Leben der Anderen (2008).“ South East

German Studies Workshop, Atlanta, GA (2011)

“Coming Out in Germany.” Western Regional LGBTQIA College Conference, San Luis Obispo,

CA (2010)

“‘Chris & die Kleine’. Gender and Sexuality in Alexa von Hennig von Lange’s Relax.” Midwest

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Indianapolis, IN (2006)

“Generation Golf Meets Zonenkinder - Popliteratur and (Gendered) Nostalgia.” Rocky Mountain

Modern Languages Association, Tucson, AZ (2006)

“What Can Pop Culture Do for You? - Materials to enliven the workbook.” ACTFL/AATG,

Chicago, IL (2004)

“A Subculture Strikes Back – The 1990s Schlager Revival in Germany.” Midwest Modern

Language Association, Chicago, IL (2003)

Panel Work

Chair, “‘Einmal gepoppt – nie mehr gestoppt!’- Recent Pop(ular) Literature.” Midwest Popular

Culture Association/American Culture Association, Indianapolis, IN (2006)

Chair, “Sound and Vision – Entertainment and Beyond.” Midwest Popular Culture

Association/American Culture Association, Indianapolis, IN (2006)

Co-Organizer, “Pop-Moderne.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference,

Chicago, IL (2003)

Graduate Student Conferences

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“Submitting and Subordinating: An Interactive Experience with Art Censorship and Dependent

Clauses.” Collabor. with Faye Stewart, Foreign Language Share Fair, Bloomington, IN (2007)

“From Regenbogen to Arschgeweih - Enhancing Students’ Vocabulary through Self-Directed

Learning.” Foreign Language Share Fair, Bloomington, IN (2006)

“Gender in the Generation Golf.” Departmental Colloquium at IUB Germanic Studies,

Bloomington, IN (2006)

“Ostalgie – A Ppostcolonial Reaction? Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder.” Graduate Students

Conference of the Department of Germanic Studies at IUB, Bloomington, IN (2005)

“Kitsch oder Kult? The Schlager Revival of the 1990s in Germany.” Graduate Students

Conference of the Department of Germanic Studies at IUB, Bloomington, IN (2003)

“Using Youth Magazines in the Foreign-Language Classroom.” Collaboration with Faye Stewart,

Foreign Language Share Fair, Bloomington, IN (2002)

Poster Sessions

“Fucking Berlin – Re-negotiating Prostitution,” Poster Session, Women in German Annual

Conference, Augusta, MI (2009)

“Gender Trouble in the Generation Golf,” Poster Session, Women in German Annual

Conference, Snowbird, UT (2006)

“Queer Eye for the (Straight) Chicks,” Poster Session, Women in German Annual Conference,

Carrolton, KY (2004)

Invited Lectures and Workshops

“Reading Lola und Bilidikid.” Invited screening and lecture for The Public School of Durham’s

Queer Cinema Class, Durham, NC (2012)

“Rammstein, Deutschland und die USA.” Invited lecture for GER 102: Elementary German II,

Duke University, Durham, NC (2012)

“Transnational Teutonen: Rammstein Representing the Berlin Republic.” Duke/UNC Works in

Progress Series, Chapel Hill, NC (2012)

“Rammstein Rocking the Republic - A Cultural Reading of a Germany's Shock 'n' Roll Circus.”

Invited lecture for the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, German Culture Club,

and Honors Society at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA (2011)

“Growing Up Guilty?” Invited lecture for GER 188: Germany Confronts Nazism & the

Holocaust, Duke University, Durham, NC (2011)

“Re-reading Rammstein: Neue deutsche Härte and (Trans)National Identity.” Invited lecture for

the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Georgia State University, Atlanta GA

(2011)

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“Reading Popculture in the Foreign Language, Literature and Culture Classroom. Germany 20

Years after Unification. A Case Study,” co-presented with Maria Stehle, invited lecture for

German / French 519: Bibliography and Methods of Research - Histories, Methods, Challenges.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2010)

“Made in Germany – The Politics of Teaching “German” Popular Culture in the 21st Century,”

co-presented with Maria Stehle, invited lecture for the Research Seminar in Modern German and

Central European Studies. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2010)

“Gender Trouble in the Generation Golf – Judith Butler and German Popliteratur,” invited

lecture for WGS 301: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo,

CA (2010)

“Gender in Fascist Fantasies,” invited lecture for HIST 233: Modern World History, Cal Poly,

San Luis Obispo, CA (2010)

“Das alles ist Deutsch(land) - Teaching for the Inclusive Language, Literature and Culture

Classroom,” invited workshop for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke

University, Durham, NC (2010)

“Bitches, Bimbos, Ball Breakers – Feminist Literary Theory,” invited lecture for MLL 210:

Introduction to Research Methods and Critical Theory, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA (2010)

“Intro to Germany”- Poly Canyon Village Learning Community, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA

(2010)

“Cross The Border, Close The Gap – Language Instruction, Literature and Culture in The German

Classroom,” invited workshop for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke

University, Durham, NC (2009)

“Reading Re-Unification With Gender Glasses,” invited lecture for the Faculty Lecture Series of

the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA (2008)

“Happy Birthday, Türke!” invited lecture/teaching session for GER 313: Literary Genres:

Detective Novels, Southwestern University, Greenwood, TX (2008)

“Cultural Studies? What’s That?” invited lecture for MLL 210: Introduction to Research Methods

and Critical Theory, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA (2008)

“Neue Deutsche Welle: Ina Deters Neue Männer braucht das Land und Herbert Grönemeyers

Männer.” invited lecture for G 400: German Reading and Writing IUB, Bloomington, IN (2005)

“Ralf König – Comic Books.” invited lecture for G 418: German Film and Popular Culture:

Queer, Straight and More: Queer in Germany IUB, Bloomington, IN (2005)

“Hip Hop Culture in Germany.” invited lecture for G 364: German Cultural History: The

Changing Face of Berlin in the 20th Century IUB, Bloomington, IN (2005)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Duke University

GER 101 “Beginning German I” (First-Year German)

Fall 2010

Text: Kontakte, Oktoberfest (graded reader)

GER 117/305 “Advanced German I: Culture/Society“

Spring 2011, Fall 2011: “Was ist Liebe?!“

Texts: Abiturwissen Deutsch, Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik and selected reading

materials

Spring 2012, Fall 2012: “Jugendkultur(en) der Gegenwart“

Texts: Abiturwissen Deutsch, German Grammar in Review and selected reading materials

GER 134S “German Theater and Performance: Projekt: Theater!“ (Third-Year German and

above)

Spring 2011: “Marius von Mayenburg”

Texts: Feuergesicht, Parasiten, Das kalte Kind and selected reading materials

Spring 2012; “Frauen auf der Bühne und dahinter”

Texts: Iphigenie auf Tauris, Emilia Galotti, Lulu, Prinzessinnendramen and selected reading

materials

GER 135 “Current Issues and Trends”

Duke in Berlin, Summer 2011, 2012

Texts: selected reading materials

GER 305/700 Foreign Language Pedagogy: Theories and Practice

Carolina Duke Graduate Program in German Studies

Co-taught with Dr. Tin Wegel

Fall 2010, Fall 2011

‘Solo’ Fall 2012

Texts: Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (Lee and VanPatten), Teaching

Language In Context (Omaggio-Hadley), Context and Culture in Language Teaching

(Kramsch), Approaches and Methods in Language Training (Richards and Rodgers) and

selected reading materials

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

GER 101 “Beginning German I” (First-Year German)

Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009

Text: Kontakte

GER 102: “Beginning German II” (First-Year German)

Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010

Texts: Kontakte, Oktoberfest (graded reader), Elvis in Köln (graded reader)

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GER 103: “Beginning German III” (First-Year German)

Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010

Texts: Kontakte, Haus ohne Hoffnung (graded reader)

GER 121: “Advanced German I” (Second-Year German)

Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009

Texts: Kaleidoskop; Stationen

GER 122: “Advanced German II” (Second-Year German)

Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Spring 2010

Texts: Kaleidoskop; Stationen

GER 233: “Critical Reading in German Literature” (Third-Year German)

Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010

Texts: Abiturwissen Deutsch and selected reading materials

GER 301: “Advanced German Composition and Grammar” (Third-Year German)

Spring 2009

Texts: Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik and selected reading materials

GER 302: “Advanced Conversation and Grammar” (Third-Year German)

Spring 2008

Texts: Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik and selected reading materials

G 350: “Talking ‘bout My Generation” - Popliteratur And the New Germany

German authors in English translation (crosslisted as General Education course)

Self-designed course

Winter 2008

G 350: “The Outsiders” - Germany’s “Others” In The 20th

/21st Century

German authors in English translation (crosslisted as a General Education course)


Summer 2008, fall 2009

G 350: “Fräuleinwunder?!” – Women Writers From The Weimar Republic To Today

German authors in English translation (crosslisted as General Education course and elective

for Women and Gender Studies)


Fall 2008

MLL 200: “Independent Study”

Fall 2009, Winter 2010

MLL 400: “Independent Study”

Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Winter 2009, Fall 2009

MLL 460: “Senior Project”

Fall 2007

HUM 310: Humanities in World Cultures (Germany)

From Flappers to Fascists – Weimar Republic Germany (Winter 2009)

Film Course: What is “German”? (Spring 2010)

Self-designed courses

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Indiana University, Bloomington

G100: “Beginning German I” (First-Semester German)

Spring 2003, Fall 2003

Text: Kontakte

G 150: “Beginning German II” (Second-Semester German)

2002, Spring 2004

Texts: Kontakte, Oktoberfest (graded reader)

G105: “Accelerated Elementary German I” (Combined First- and Second-Semester German)

Fall 2005

Texts: Kontakte, Haus ohne Hoffnung (graded reader)

G200: “Beginning German III” (Third-Semester German)

Spring 2005, Spring 2006 (course chair)

Text: Kontakte, Haus ohne Hoffnung (graded reader)

G250: “Oral Practice, Writing, and Reading II” (Fourth-Semester German)

Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Summer 2004 (independently taught), Fall 2004, Summer 2005, Fall

2006

Texts: Schemata; Mitlesen/Mitteilen; Kaleidoskop

L320: “Was geht, Alter? - What’s Up, Dude? Youth Culture in the Age of Globalisation.

Germany Post 1990: A Case Study,” Spring 2007

Self-designed, independently taught Sophomore Seminar, Collins Living Learning Center

L210: “Gender in Fascist Fantasies,” Fall 2006

Co-designed, co-taught Freshmen Seminar, Collins Living Learning Center

Collaboration with Faye Stewart

W 405/W605/V 400/C 334: “How Global Is Youth Culture – Case Study: Post Re-

Unification Germany,” Summer 2003

Co-designed, co-taught Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar, West European Studies

Collaboration with Faye Stewart

“German Language and Culture - Survival Skills for Business Students.” Spring 2002

Self-designed, independently taught course, GLOBE, Kelly Business School

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

G101, G102, G201, G202 (First- through Fourth-Semester German)

Academic Year 2000-2001

Texts: Kontakte; Treffpunkt Deutsch

Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik

Oh wie schön ist Panama (graded reader); Haus ohne Hoffnung (graded reader)


PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Pedagogy Seminar: Drama Grammar. Organized through the TCLC for LPDs and language

instructors. Duke University, Durham NC (2012)

Weekend seminar for qualification as certified examiner for “Zertifikat Deutsch” (Level B2, C1)

of the Goethe Institut. Goethe Institut, Chicago, IL (2012)

Pilot project: Duke Interdisciplinary Writing Group (Spring 2012)

Teaching Research with Writing Faculty Fellow Program. Duke University, Durham NC (AY

2011/12)

Weekend seminar for qualification as certified examiner for “Zertifikat Deutsch” (Level A1, A2,

B1) of the Goethe Institut. Duke University, Durham NC (2011)

“Courtains Rise on German Grammar” Pre-Conference Workshop at ACTFL, Boston MA (2010)

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Bi-annual Departmental Course Development Trinity College Mini-Grant, with Dr. Kata

Gellen (currently under review)

David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Fund for Spring, 2012 (not received)

Best Article in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2012

Conference Travel Grant of the Trinity College, 2012

Event Grant from Auswärtiges Amt, Washington for the “Think Transatlantic” Campus

Week, 2012

Grant from Trinity College for Pilot Project: Goethe Institut Exams as Program

Assessment Tools, 2012

Grant from Trinity College Language Committee to organize Language Teaching Share

Fair, 2011

Teaching Research with Writing Faculty Fellowship 2011/12


Faculty Book Manuscript Completion Fellowship, 2011(not received)

Conference Travel Grant of the Trinity College, 2011

Event Grant from Auswärtiges Amt, Washington for the “Do Deutsch” Campus Week,

2011


The Hasselhoff Hello Kitty Award of the Department of Modern Languages and

Literatures at Cal Poly, 2010

Nominee Connection Faculty Scholar Award of Cal Poly University Housing,

2010

Distinguished Lecturer Award of the California Faculty Association, 2009

Nominee Connection Faculty Scholar Award of Cal Poly University Housing,

2009

Faculty Woman of the Year, Cal Poly, 2009


Departmental Guest Speaker Grant of the Department of Modern Languages and


Departmental Conference Travel Award of the Department of Modern Languages and


The Collins Living and Learning Center’s Carl H. Ziegler Teaching Award for the

academic year 2006-07

Graduate Student Travel Grant of the MLA, 2006

Conference Travel Grant of the Department of Germanic Studies IUB, 2006

Graduate Student Travel Grant of the RMMLA, 2006


Foreign Student Award for Graduate Students, 2003


Co-first prize winner of the German Writing Competition of the Department of Modern

Languages and Literatures UNL, 2001

Erasmus Stipendium University of Tübingen, 1997

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Review of Textbook Proposal: “German Through Plays” for Yale University Press

(2012)

AATG “Alle lernen Deutsch,” subcommittee for GLBTQ materials (2011- present)

Member of the Southeast German Studies Workshop Steering Committee (2010 -

present)

Co-Editor for European News, Women in German Newsletter (2009 - 2012)

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Duke University

Report on Language Program for External Review (2012/2013)

Organizer Guest-lecture by Dr. Hiram Maxim: “Thinking Curricilarly, Acting Textually:

The Textual Basis for Collegiate Foreign Language Curricula“ (2012)

Administrated Goethe Institut Exams C1 (Fall 2012)

Organizer Think Transatlantic German Campus Week (2012)

Organizer of Language Teaching Share Fair (2012)

Administrated Goethe Institut Exams A1, A2, B1, B2 (Spring 2012)

Establishing Duke as an official testing center for the Goethe Institut exams (2012)

Organizer Do Deutsch German Campus Week (2011)

Co-Organizer Geoethe Institut Workshop (2011)

Organizer Guest-lecture by Dr. Burkhard Henke: “The Common European Reference

Framework in Second Language Acquisition“ (2011)

Organizer of lecture series “Auf Deutsch, bitte…!” (Spring 2011- Spring 2012)

Organizer of Semesterabschlussfest (Fall 2010 - present)

Organizer of Berlinfest Fall 2010

Orientation Week for New Teaching Assistants in the Department of German Languages

and Literature at Duke (each summer) (2010 - present)

Writing of recommendation letters for DAAD stipends, Duke in… programs,

scholarships (each semester)

Advisor to the German Club (2010 - present)


Member of the Departmental Invited Guest Lectures Committee (2012 - present)

Member of the Trinity College Language Committee (2010 - present)

Member of the Departmental Executive Committee (2010 - present)

Member of the Duke in Berlin Advisory Board (2010 - present)

Assistant Director of Duke in Berlin, Summer (2010-present)

California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

Member of the German Search Committee (2010)

Departmental Part Time Lecturer Pool Committee 2009-2010

Departmental Senior Project Outcomes Committee 2009-2010

Organizer of Guest Lecture by Dr. Liesl Allingham, Virginia Tech University:

“Essentially Passing: Contemporary Theories of Gender-Bending and Eighteenth-

Century Cross-Dressers” (2010)

Organizer of Guest Lecture by Robert de Vries: “Flying Behind the Iron Curtain” (2010)

Co-Organizer of “Ein kleiner deutscher Liederabend” (2010)

Organizer of Guest Lecture by Dr. Alexandra Merley-Hill, Portland University: “Good-

Bye, Mom! - Political and Generational Transition in Good-Bye, Lenin!” (2010)

Advisor to the German Search Committee 2009-2010

Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures Department Awards Committee 2009-2010

Departmental Social Gatherings Committee 2009-2010

Faculty Associate with University Housing 2009-2010

Organizer of German Film Series 2009-2010

Organizer of “Oktoberfest in November” 2009

Organizer of Guest Lecture by Dr. Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville:

“‘Bad Boys’: Race, Gender, and Performance in 21st Century Germany” (2009)

Organizer of Guest Lecture by Dr. Rachel Bachmann, Southwestern University: “Exile

and Homesickness: Anna Seghers in Mexico and East Germany” (2009)

Organizer of Guest Lecture by Dr. Molly Loberg, Cal Poly SU: “Kleptomaniacs, Looters,

and Political Gangs: Berlin Crowds 1914-1938” (2009)

Co-Organizer Cal Poly Interdisciplinary Research and Writing Group on Culture and

Society 2008-2009

Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures Department Awards Committee 2008-2009

Departmental Social Gatherings Committee 2008-2009

Faculty Associate with University Housing 2008-2009

Organizer of “Fasching” 2009


Organizer of Guest Lecture by Dr. Faye Stewart, Georgia State University: “Reading the

Lavender Herring: Decoding Identity in Queer Detective Fiction” (2008)


Organizer of German Club 2008-2009

Modern Languages and Literatures Departmental Representative for the Faculty Hearing

Panel 2007-2008

Organizer of “International Mini Film Festival” 2008

Organizer of “Fasching” 2008



Organizer of German Club 2007-2008

Indiana University, Bloomington


Workshop: Preparing for the Job Market - The Teaching Portfolio, IUB 2007

German Area Chair of the Midwest PCA/ACA, 2006-2008

Graduate Steering Committee Co-Representative Faculty Meeting Observer, 2006

Member of the Planning Committee for the Graduate Students Conference: “Looking

Member of the Planning Committee for the Graduate Students Conference: “Looking

Forward, looking Back” 2005

Graduate Steering Committee Co-Representative Faculty Meeting Observer, 2004

Co-Host of the German Mini Film Series “Brush Up On Your Pop Culture,” 2003

Co-President of the Graduate Steering Committee, 2003

Head of the Planning Committee for the Graduate Students Conference: “Sex Drugs and

Rock ‘n’ Roll: Taboos and Subcultures of Gender, Intoxication and Music in Germanic

Literature and Culture,” 2002

Graduate Steering Committee Co-Representative in the Combined Curriculum

Committee, 2001

ADVISEES

Member of Master Thesis Committee: Gregory McDonald, Sanford School of Public

Policy (2012 - present)

Member of Dissertation Committee: Michelle Rene Ely: “Schwarzsein, Weisssein,

Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourse in German Film After 1950”

(Defended Summer 2012)

Teaching Assistants in the Department of German Languages and Literature at Duke

(2010- now)

German Majors and Minors in the Department of German Languages and Literature at

Duke (2010- now)

Director of Senior Project: Sonja Perry: “Brand New Memory oder: Neue Erinnerungen”

(2007)

German Minor Students in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Cal

Poly (2007 – 2010)

LANGUAGES

German, native

English, near-native

Latin, Latinum Magnum

Ancient Greek, Graecum

Old High German, reading

Middle High German, reading

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS


American Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages

American Association of Teachers of German

American Association of Teachers of German, North Carolina Chapter

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators

German Studies Association

Modern Language Association

Women in German

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

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