Education

Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1999)

• Dissertation: Antikerezeption in German-language Literature after 1945: The Roman Tradition

  Supervisors: André Lefevere (until his death) / Kirsten Belgum and Louis Mackey

M.A., Universität Hamburg (Greek and Roman History and Archaeology; American Lit.) (1989)

• Thesis: "Utilis clementiae fama" (Tac. Hist. IV 63): Freiwillige Machtbeschränkung als politisches Kalkül und Propagandamittel im römischen Kaisertum (analysis of historical texts and numismatic evidence)

  Supervisor: Peter Herrmann

B.A., Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (1973)

Major: History; Minors: Philosophy and Political Science

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Teaching Experience

Since 2005 I have been an Associate Professor of German and Director of the Language Media Center, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas

I have taught German literature, culture, and language at:

• Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas (1998- 2005)
• Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas (1997-98)
• Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (1995-97)
• University of Texas at Austin (1990-97)

I have taught English literature as well as Composition at:

• Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (1996-97)
• Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas (1996)
• Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, Univ. Hamburg (as a TA) (1981)

And the English language:

• Private Instruction and for The American- English Language School (Owner and supervisor: Wes Westbrook), Hamburg (1979-89)

I also tutored in array of subjects:

• Women's Athletics, Univ. of Texas at Austin (German, English, History, Classics) (1995-97)
• Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, Junior Year Abroad Programs in Hamburg, Germany, Smith College, Cornell University and Indiana University (1985-86)

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Publications

Most recent articles

• "Rewriting Rome in post-1945 German-language Literature: Examining Image, Norm, Habitus, Tertium comparationis," ACROSS Languages and Literature. 6.1 (2005)79-93
• "The Deukalion and Pyrrha Myth in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr," German Life and Letters 16.2 (April 2003) 142-155.

Editor

• I have been the editor of the proceeding for the South Central Association for Language Learning Technology for a few years now.
• I was also GUEST EDITOR for thematic issue of Dimension2 on Greek and Roman Traditions in Contemporary German-language Literature (3.3, Sept. 1996)
  (cf. Review article: Bernhard Kytzler, "Schade, daß es kein Gott war," International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5.3 (Winter 1999) 466-472.)

Solicited Reviews

• Mary Cosgrove, Grotesque Ambilvalence: Melacholy and Mourning in the Prose of Albert Drach. In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 25, 1 (Fall 2006): 199-201.
• Bernd Seidensticker and Martin Vöhler, ed., Mythen in nachmythischer Zeit: Die Antike in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Gegenwart (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002): German Quarterly 76.1
• Jürgen Werner, Der Stückeschreiber und der Sohn der Hebamme, Brecht und das Erbe: Der Fall Sokrates (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Leipzig, 1998). In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8.1 (Summer 2001) 165-168.

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Literary Translations

In working with Dimension2, I have published translations of over 20 contemporary German authors, from which one excerpt developed into a full novella translantion:

and one story was also republished:

-Ulrike Längle, "The Devil is the Friend of Man," Dimension2 4.2 (May 1997): 222-227

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Invited Presentations

-"Tales of the Invisible Man: Language and the United States", 4 May 2005, University of Texas at Arlington.

-"Language Studies and Technology: the Case for Hybridity", 16 Feb. 2005, TCU. Ft. Worth, TX

-"Rome: the Other Paradigm (The Role of Rome in Austrian National Self-definition)"; 6 Feb. 1998, University of Dallas.

-"Computer Assisted Foreign Language Instruction: What Are the Possibilities?"; 9 Feb.1998, University of Texas at Arlington.

Papers Given

The papers I have given range across translation studies, literature, and cyberstudies. For instance:

• “Language Lab Management” (Presentation and Workshop), International Association of Language Learning Technology, Tufts Univ., June 19-23, 2007.
• “(click here):// The Intersection of the Internet and Literature in German(y),” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 200
• “ GILT-y Pleasures:Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation in the Language Media Center,” FLEAT 5, i.e. Foreign Language Education and Technology Conference sponsored by the International Association For Language Learning Technology (IALLT), and the Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET), Provo, Utah, August 5-10, 2005.
• "Globalization, the Internet, and German Culture," 20th Century German Panel, MLA, Philadelphia, December 2004.
• "Theoretical Implications of the Internet and Translation," American Translation Studies Association, U Mass Amherst, March 26-28, 2004.
• "Political and Theoretical Dimensions of Cybermanifestos in German-speaking countries," German Studies Association, New Orleans, Sept. 18-21, 2003.
• "The "Third Culture" and the "Fourth Estate": Cyberspace and the Politics of the German Press," German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.
• "Virtual Components in Upper Division Courses," International Association of Language Learning Technology, Annual Meeting, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 22-26, 2001
• "Barbaric Art or Postmodern Aesthetics? Art and History in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 27-29, 2000

• - "The Legacy of the Holocaust in Europe (dealing and not dealing with the past)," University of Texas at Arlington, April 28, 2003.
• - "Germania in Cyberspace: The Information Age in German-speaking Countries," German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.
• - "Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," Roundtable Discussion, SOCALL '99, April 23-24, 1999, Baylor University, Waco, Texas [with Jan Marston (SMU) and Sara Wilson (Tulane University)]

Conferences Organized and Hosted

• Annual Meeting: South Central Association of Language Learning Technologies (March 2003)
• Plan and Coordinate Graduate Student Conference, Open Borders, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

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Multi-media / Internet

Graduate Course Designed

Design and teach graduate course: Technology and Language Studies Univ. of Texas at Arlington. (2000 | 2003)

Development

Supervise internet multimedia projects in French, German, Russian, and Spanish, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Development of multi-media instructional material, Southwestern University (1997-98)

Internet Workshops

Given

"Introduction to the Internet", Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1999)

"Using a computer classroom" together with Pete Smith (Director of Distance Education), Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1999)

Offer individual tutorial on web authoring to seven individual faculty members (including current language section web-masters) (1998-present)

Host

IALL/ACTFL workshop "Integrating Internet Resources into the Language Curriculum" (2001)

Participant

Participant in Summer Workshops on Multi-media course development, Southwestern Univ. (1987)

Web Master

Departmental web master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

German section web master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Web master, Forschungstauchergruppe der Universität Hamburg (1997-2002)

Committees

Chair, Language Lab Oversight Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Member, Departmental Committee for Computers and Media, Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1993-97)

Representative, Department of Germanic Studies, University Standing Committee for Liberal Arts Media Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin (while still graduate student&emdash;normally, a faculty member serves on this committee) (1992-95)

Film

Co-Organizer, German Film Series, University of Texas at Arlington (2001-present).

Organizer, German Film Series (monthly: ordering, showing, advertising) Univ. Texas at Austin (1993-95)

Video Recording and Editing, Persa (play by Plautus), Department of Classics, UT Austin (1993)

Video Recording and Editing, annual German Play, Dept. of Germanic Studies, UT Austin (1991-95)

Video Recording and Editing, University Players, Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, Universität Hamburg (1985-88)

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Awards and Honors

Professional Development Award, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

Helmut Rehder Graduate Scholarship (outstanding graduate student: scholarship and service), Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1994 )

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1988-89 Stipend Award for Foreign Students, Universität Hamburg (1992)

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Other Professional Experience

Teacher coordination/training

Authorized Examiner for Goethe Institut exams "Zertifikat Deutsch" and "Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung" (2004)

Business German Accreditation Workshop, 8 April, Univ. of Texas at Austin (1995)

Coordinator, Accelerated German Courses (first-year), Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (spring semester) (1994)

Research/Proofreading/Textbook generation

Test generation, dialogue writing, proofreading for Komm mit! [new high school German textbook series], Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (also listed as reviewer in 2nd and 3rd level books) (1994-5)

Authored answer key to Well's Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik (1993)

Proofreader: scientific texts (e.g., for Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, Univ. Hamburg) (1982-89)

Research Assistant, Depts. of Archaeology, Marine Biology, Geology, and Shipbuilding, Universität Hamburg *(including building and test-sailing replica of 3rd century BC Greek trading ship) (1980-88)

Translation/Interpreting

Professional Translator: Scientific/Technical, Business, Historical/Archaeological, Literary (1982-present)

Interpreter for City of Austin Sister City Koblenz Delegation and for Men's Choir (1991)

Interpreter for Mail on Sunday (London): joint Stern interview with Matthias Rust on Moscow Flight (1988)

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Service

Modern Languages

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, TCU

Secured invitations to the UTA Tech Fair Luncheon w/ speaker for Romy Hughes of CTE and Dave Edmondson of Information Services – and accompanied them (Fall 2005)

Webmaster for the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, includes revamping entire departmental page and creating website for German Studies.

Organized, included fund raising, concert: The Moons of Venus: Romancing Marlene Dietrich, (Featuring New York cabaret singer Karen Kohler) Oct. 13, 2005 | 7:30 pm | PepsiCo Recital Hall, TCU.

Organized concert: Ensemble Kolorit: Songs from German Musicals of the Roaring 20s and 30s, Feb. 6, 2006 | 4:00 pm | Moudy 141N, TCU.

Along with other German faculty members helped create and carry out weekly Stammtisch for students.

Along with other German faculty members begin revamping entire German curriculum

Help organize and conduct “German Saturday” when 100-200 high school students from all over North Texas spend a day on our campus doing various activities--all in German. In conjunction with North Texas Association of Teachers of German.

With Jeff Todd create and help maintain webpage for North Texas German Events, in conjunction with North Texas Association of Teachers of German.

Organized concert "The Music of Kurt Weill featuring Karen Kohler" Nov. 9, 1999, University of Texas at Arlington (including extensive fund-raising both within and without the university) (1999)

Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1999-present)

Departmental web-master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

German section web-master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Chair, Language Lab Oversight Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Budget and Planning Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Lecture Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Oversight annual departmental inventory, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Y2K Liason for Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-99)

Comparative Literature

Plan and Coordinate Graduate Student Conference, Open Borders, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

Student Representative, Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students, University of Texas at Austin (1992-96)

Ancient History

Student member, Instititutsrat, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Universität Hamburg (1985-86)

Germanic Studies

Member, Departmental Committee for Computers and Media, Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1993-97)

Organizer, German Film Series (monthly: ordering, showing, advertising) Univ. Texas at Austin (1993-95)

Representative, Department of Germanic Studies, University Standing Committee for Liberal Arts Media Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin (served while still graduate student--normally, a faculty member serves on this committee) (1992-95)

Other

Judge: International Week 2000 (International Student Organization, Univ. of Texas at Arlington) (2000)

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Courses Designed and Taught

Modern Languages (for students in all language disciplines)

Department of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington

Graduate: Technology and Language Studies, Translation Theory

German

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, TCU

Graduate: German for Reading Knowledge

Undergraduate: Culture through Film, Germany and the Internet

Department of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington

Graduate: German Literature 1848 – present, Günter Grass: Writing a Nation, A Culture of Obedience?,  Grammar and Stylistics, Romanticism, Translation:  Practice and Theory, German for Reading Knowledge

Undergraduate: All lower level language courses, Whodunit? German Style (focus on the "Krimi"), Conversation, Advanced Grammar, Composition, Translation, Introduction to Literature and Culture Studies, German Tradition I (Middle Ages - Romanticism), German Tradition II (Romanticism - Present), Günter Grass, A Culture of Obedience?, The Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary Literature (cross-listed with Classics, English, and German), Enlightenment and Romanticism, Hitler: History and Image (cross-listed with History and team taught with History professor), Contemporary Literature

Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

Undergraduate: 2nd & 3rd semester, "Krimi", Conversation,  Practical Phonetics, Authority and Discontent

Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Undergraduate: All lower level language courses, Conversation and Composition.

Graduate: German for Graduate Students

Foreign Languages: German Division, Austin Community College

Undergraduate:  1st & 2nd semester German, Conversation

English

Dept. of English and Foreign Languages, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas

Undergraduate:  Survey of English Literature I

English Department, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

Undergraduate:  Rhetoric and Composition, American Literature I

Private Instruction and for The American-English Language School (Hamburg, Germany)

English as a Foreign Language: intermediate and advanced levels

Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Assisted in Introduction to Literary Methods, supervised three work groups

Comparative and Classics

Departments of English, Modern Languages, and Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington

Undergraduate: The Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary Literature  (cross-listed with Classics, English, and German)

Cornell et al. Junior Year Abroad Program (Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Univ. Hamburg) Tutor accompanying lecture on Roman Expansion seen from the Greek standpoint

Smith Junior Year Abroad Program (Institut für klassische Archäologie, Univ. Hamburg) Tutor accompanying seminar on Greek vase painting

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Other Activities

Panel member (Hamburg) in Worldnet Teleconference on Martin Luther King (with panels in Bonn, Cologne, Tel Aviv and The Hague) (1989)

1983-88 Training of new research divers; planning, supervision, and execution of subaquatic scientific projects for Universität Hamburg and private institutions (1983-88)

German Government Certification: Research Diver / Forschungstaucher (extensive training in Hamburg / Kiel and examination before governmental board) (1982)

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