Recent Presentations:
“Gendered Euthanasia in Contemporary German Television." Infanticide in German Literature, Film and Culture. NeMLA, Rochester, NY, March 15-17, 2012.
"The Use of Wikis and Blogs in the FL Classroom." Teaching with Technology. The Committee to Foster Foreign Language Study Meeting. Grinnell College, October 25, 2011.
“Reactions to 9/11 in German Film in Intermediate German.” German Cultural Reactions to Terrorism and War after 9/11. American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages, Denver, November 18-20, 2011.
“Transcending the Divide: Integrating Content and Language in FL Curriculum and Pedagogy.” American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages, Denver November 18-20, 2011.
“The Loss of the Real? 9/11 in the Contemporary German Novel.“ German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky, September 22-25, 2011.
“Terror and Ambiguity in German Film.“ Re-Visioning Terrorism, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, September 8-10, 2011.
“From New York to Berlin to Bagdad: 9/11 in Contemporary German Literature and Film.“ Annual Taft Fellows Symposium. Cincinnati. May 10-11, 2011. Invited.
“9/11 in German Film.“ Textual Violence in German Contexts, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 18-20, 2011.
“Multimedia im Fremdsprachenunterricht.“ Workshop for Instructors, Lecturers and Professors, Goethe Institut New York, New York City, December 4-5, 2010.
“TA Training in Content-Based Instruction.” American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages, Boston, November 19-21, 2010.
“Mediating the Message: The Visual Construct of Terror in German Contemporary Literature after 9/11.” International Conference on 21st Century European Literature, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, September 15-17, 2010.
“German Television in the Intermediate German Classroom.” Ohio Foreign Language Association, Columbus, Ohio, April 8-10, 2010.
“Terrorism in German Contemporary Literature after 9/11.” German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 8-11, 2009
Publications
Journals:
Focus on German Studies 16, co-edited with Marie Büsch, 2009.
Focus on German Studies 15, co-edited with Todd Heidt, 2008.
Articles:
“From New York to Berlin to Bagdad: 9/11 in Contemporary German Literature and Film.“ Purdue E-Pubs. November 2011.
“Mass Media in Intermediate German.“ Die Unterrichtspraxis. Edited by Carlee Arnett and Glenn Levine [under review]
“Mediating the Message: The Visual Construct of Terror in German Contemporary Literature after 9/11.” Mapping New Trends in 21st Century European Literature Edited by Margarete-Anne Hutton and Michael Gratzke. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. [forthcoming]
“Introduction.“ Focus on German Studies 16 (2009): ix-xv.
Book Reviews:
"September. Fata Morgana," by Thomas Lehr, Focus on German Studies 18 (2011) [forthcoming]
"The Aesthetics of Passage: The Imag(in)ed Experience of Time in Thomas Lehr, W. G. Sebald, and Peter Handke," by Heike Polster, Monatshefte 103.1 (2011): 148-9.
"From Solidarity to Schisms. 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US," ed. Cara Cilano. German Quarterly (2012) [forthcoming]
"Alice," by Judith Hermann, Focus on German Studies 17 (2010): 131-4.
"Contemporary German Fiction," ed. Stuart Taberner, Focus on German Studies 15 (2008): 173-5.
"Franz Kafka. Critical Lives Series," by Sander L. Gilman, Focus on German Studies 14 (2007): 161-3.
"Die Salzweißen Augen. Vierzehn Briefe über die Drastik und Deutlichkeit," by Dietmar Dath, Focus on German Studies 13 (2006): 150-3.
Interviews:
Wilke, Sabine. “Über die Ästhetik der Nachhaltigkeit.” Focus on German Studies 17 (2010): 216-25.
Ayoub, Susanne. “In diesem Melodram gehört mir die Hauptrolle.” Focus on German Studies 16 (2009): 189-96.
Pleschinski, Hans. “Man besuchte eine Welt, wie kurz vor dem Untergang.” Focus on German Studies 15 (2008): 200-9.
Meinecke, Thomas. “…eine Kugel vor sich herrollen, die immer fetter wird.” with Wolfgang Lückel. Focus on German Studies 14 (2007): 205-23.
