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OFFICE ADDRESS
Vera Stegmann
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Update: 12-12-2010
Lehigh University
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Tel.: (610) 758-5026
Maginnes Hall Fax: (610) 758-6556
9 West Packer Avenue Email: vss2@lehigh.edu
Bethlehem, PA 18015 URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~vss2/
EDUCATION
Ph.D. German Indiana University (Bloomington) February 1990
Graduate Minor: Comparative Literature
M.A. German University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) May 1983
M.A. Spanish University of Missouri (Columbia) May 1981
B.A. Spanish University of Missouri (Columbia) December 1979
“Abitur” near Hamburg, Germany May 1977
Summer Study in Avignon, France (Bryn Mawr Program) 1983
Summer Study in Paris, France (NYU Program) 1981
Summer Study in Jalapa, Mexico (U of Missouri Program) 1979
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of German at Lehigh University August 1996 —
Assistant Professor of German at Lehigh University August 1991 - May 1996
Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Lehigh University August 1990 - May 1991
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Das epische Musiktheater bei Strawinsky und Brecht: Studien zur Geschichte und Theorie. New
York: Peter Lang, 1991. 202 pp.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Anna Seghers und Crisanta: Reflexionen aus der DDR zu ihrem mexikanischen Exil.” Iberoamerikanisches
Jahrbuch für Germanistik. Forthcoming.
“Perspectives on Hanns Eisler.” The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 33 (2008): 135-50.
“Fatzer’s Fall: Images of Death in Brecht’s Learning Play.” Communications from the
International Brecht Society Vol. 36 (Fall 2007): 165-72.
“Frauenschicksale: A DEFA Film Viewed in Light of Brecht’s Critique of the Opera and
Eisler/Adorno’s Theory of Film Music.” German Studies Review Vol. 28 No. 3 (October

2005): 481-500.
“Eric Bentley Interviewed.” The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 28 (2003): 47-66.
“Murieta in Mahagonny: Pablo Neruda’s Brechtian Drama.” Communications from the
International Brecht Society Vol. 30 Nos. 1 & 2 (2001): 57-61.
“Bertolt Brecht and Pablo Neruda: Poetry and Politics.” The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 24 (1999):
141-61.
“Caribaldi and Casals: Theater and Music in Thomas Bernhard’s The Force of Habit.” The
European Legacy Vol. 1 No. 3 (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996): 1213-18.
“La nuova commedia dell’arte: Ferruccio Busoni als Vorläufer von Brecht und Weill.” The
Brecht Yearbook Vol. 21 (1996): 141-57.
“Strawinsky, Brecht und Weill: Stationen des epischen Musiktheaters.” The Brecht Yearbook
Vol. 16 (1991): 75-96.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Eisler and Brecht: New Eisler Interpretations.” The European Mind: Narrative and Identity,
Essays. Ed. Heinz-Uwe Haus, Frederick Lapisardi, Nicos Shiafkalis. Nicosia: Cyclos
Theater Books, 2011. Forthcoming.
“Der Mantel des Ketzers.” Brecht-Handbuch. Band 3: Prosa: Filme, Drehbücher. Ed. Jan
Knopf. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2002. 324-29.
“Pablo Neruda and the German Literary Exile Community.” The Lion and the Eagle:
Interdisciplinary Essays on German-Spanish Relations over the Centuries. Ed. Conrad
Kent and Thomas Wolber. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. 423-41.
“Brecht contra Wagner: The Evolution of the Epic Music Theater.” A Bertolt Brecht Reference
Companion. Ed. Siegfried Mews. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 238-60.
“An Opera for Three Pennies, a Violin for Ten Francs: Brecht’s and Stravinsky’s Approaches to
Epic Music Theater.” Brecht Unbound. Ed. James K. Lyon and Hans-Peter Breuer.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. 119-34.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“Brechtian Traces in Pina Bausch’s Choreographic and Cinematic Work.” Language and the
Scientific Imagination. Proceedings of the 11 th ISSEI Conference at the University of
Helsinki, Finland, July 2008. Eds. Giacomo Bottà and Marja Härmänmaa.
http://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/15242/78_Stegmann.pdf?sequence=1
“Exile Experiences and Hybrid Identities in Anna Seghers’s Writings.” Proceedings of the 4 th
Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. CD publication, 2006.
5873-78.
“Mahagonny, Macheath, and Murieta: Forms of Epic Theater in Works by Bertolt Brecht and
Pablo Neruda.” Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for
the Future. Proceedings of the 7 th ISSEI Conference at the University of Bergen,
Norway, August 2000. Eds. Daniel Apollon, Odd-Bjorn Fure and Lars Svasand. CD.
“Commedia Dell’Arte and Verfremdung: Ferruccio Busoni’s Epic Theatre.” Memory, History
and Critique. European Identity at the Millenium. Proceedings of the 5 th ISSEI
Conference at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August
1996. Eds. Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor. CDROM.
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BOOK REVIEWS, PERFORMANCE REVIEWS, REPORTS, ABSTRACTS
“The Hilo Massacre at Kumu Kahua Theatre.” Communications from the International Brecht
Society
Gillett, Robert, and Rodela Weiss-Sussex, eds. “‘Verwisch die Spuren!’ Bertolt Brecht’s Work
and Legacy: A Reassessment.” German Quarterly Vol. 83 No. 1 (Winter 2010): 114-16.
Kebir, Sabine. “Mein Herz liegt neben der Schreibmaschine: Ruth Berlaus Leben vor, mit und
nach Bertolt Brecht.” Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur Vol. 101
No. 1 (Spring 2009): 135-37.
“Report on ISSEI 2008.” Communications from the International Brecht Society Vol. 37 (Fall
2008): 17-18.
Schweinhardt, Peter, ed. “Hanns Eislers Johann Faustus: 50 Jahre nach Erscheinen des
Operntexts 1952. Symposion.” The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 32 (2007): 414-18.
“Life of Galileo. Translation: David Edgar. Direction: Blanka Zizka. Scenic Design: Mimi Lien.
Wilma Theater. Philadelphia, PA/USA.” Communications from the International Brecht
Society Vol. 36 (Fall 2007): 132-35.
“Report on the MLA 2006 Session on Brecht and Masculinity.” CIBS Vol. 36 (Fall 2007): 15.
“Response to the ‘Two Cultures at the GSA’.” German Studies Association Newsletter Volume
32 No. 1 (Spring 2007): 20-21.
Bernhart, Walter, and Werner Wolf, eds. “Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004) by
Steven Paul Scher.” Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur Vol. 98 No.
4 (Winter 2006): 644-45.
“The Good Woman of Setzuan. Diamond Theatre, Lehigh University.” Communications from
the International Brecht Society (CIBS) Vol. 35 (Fall 2006): 45-48.
Berwald, Olaf. “An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss.” German Studies Review Vol. 29
No. 1 (February 2006): 227-28.
Weber, Herwig. “Bertolt Brecht auf Spanisch: Die Rezeption Brechts in Argentinien, Mexiko,
Kuba und Spanien.” The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 30 (2005): 415-18.
Eisler, Hanns. “Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe. Roundheads and Peakheads.” Ed. Thomas
Ahrend and Albrecht Dümling. The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 29 (2004): 423-27.
Häntzschel, Hiltrud. “Brechts Frauen.” Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur
Vol. 96 No. 3 (Fall 2004): 467-70.
Tatlow, Anthony. “Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign.” German Quarterly Vol. 76
No. 1 (Winter 2003): 115-16.
Partsch, Cornelius. “Schräge Töne: Jazz und Unterhaltungsmusik in der Kultur der Weimarer
Republik.” German Studies Review Vol. 26 No. 2 (May 2003): 421-23.
Hargraves, John A. “Music in the Works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka.” Monatshefte für
deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur Vol. 95 Nr. 1 (Spring 2003): 141-43
Finney, Gail. “Christa Wolf.” German Studies Review Vol. 26 No. 1 (February 2003): 214-16.
Bryant-Bertail, Sarah. “Space and Time in Epic Theater: The Brechtian Legacy.” German
Studies Review Vol. 26 No. 1 (February 2003): 183-84.
“Medea in Napoli.” Lo Straniero Vol. 35 (June 2002): 14-15. A revised version, “Neapolitan
Medea: Euripides Meets Heiner Müller,” in Communications from the International
Brecht Society Vol. 31 (June 2002): 25-26. This was translated into Greek for the theatre
journal EPI SKINIS (No. 16, Nicosia/Cyprus): 16-20.
Riethmüller, Albrecht, ed. “Brecht und seine Komponisten.” The Brecht Yearbook Vol. 27
(2002): 209-14.
Hermand, Jost, and Marc Silberman, eds. “Rethinking Peter Weiss.” German Studies Review
Vol. 25 No. 2 (May 2002): 438-40.
“Exploring Identities Through Narrative Strategies: Giordano Bruno and Bertolt Brecht.” Lo
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Straniero Vol. 34 (September 2001): 22-23.
“Crisanta: A Mexican Tale from the GDR.” Women in German Newsletter No. 83 (Fall 2000):
16.
“Gay Brecht? Jean Cocteau Rep Stages Edward II.” Communications from the International
Brecht Society Vol. 29 Nos. 1 & 2 (June 2000): 18-20.
Allan, Seán, and John Sandford, eds. “DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-92.” German Studies
Review Vol. 23 No. 2 (May 2000): 405-06.
Lindenberger, Herbert. “Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage.” Comparative Literature
Studies Vol. 37 No. 1 (2000): 68-73.
“NEH Report.” Communications from the International Brecht Society Vol. 27 No. 2
(December 1998): 9-11.
Ellis, Lorena B. “Brecht’s Reception in Brazil.” Sartingen, Kathrin. “Über Brecht hinaus...:
Produktive Theaterrezeption in Brasilien am Beispiel von Bertolt Brecht.” The Brecht
Yearbook Vol. 22 (1997): 473-78.
Kuhn, Anna K., and Barbara D. Wright, eds. “Playing for Stakes: German-Language Drama in a
Social Context.” The German Quarterly Vol. 69 No. 4 (Fall 1996): 444-45.
“Report on the Ninth Symposium of the International Brecht Society.” Women in German
Newsletter No. 68 (Fall 1995): 18-20.
Weiner, Marc A. “Undertones of Insurrection: Music, Politics, & the Social Sphere in the
Modern German Narrative.” The German Quarterly Vol. 68 No. 4 (Fall 1995): 456-58.
McGlathery, James, ed. “Music and German Literature: Their Relationship since the Middle
Ages.” The German Quarterly Vol. 67 No. 2 (Spring 1994): 288-89.
Schneidewind, Wolf-Egmar, and Bernhard Sowinski. “Bertolt Brecht: Der gute Mensch von
Sezuan. Oldenbourg Interpretationen.” Hasselbach, Karlheinz and Ingrid. “Bertolt
Brecht: Kalendergeschichten. Oldenbourg Interpretationen.” Colloquia Germanica Vol.
26 No. 4 (1993): 374-77.
Bernhard, Thomas. “Histrionics. Three Plays.” Trans. Peter Jansen and Kenneth Northcott.
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Vol. 6 No. 2 (Spring 1992): 147-49.
Gilbert, Michael John T. “Bertolt Brecht’s Striving for Reason, Even in Music.” South Atlantic
Review Vol. 55 No. 4 (November 1990): 137-39.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Sabbatical leave Lehigh University Fall 2010
Center for Global Islamic Studies Research Grant Lehigh University Spring 2010
Participant in Lehigh Library’s grant to catalog, translate, and digitize
Moravian Archive’s “Hidden Collections” Mellon Foundation 2009-11
Faculty Research Grant (Anna Seghers) Lehigh University Spring 2009
Women’s Studies Course Development Grant Lehigh University Summer 2007
Full grant for Trajectories Conference Indiana University March 2006
Global Citizenship Faculty Seminar Lehigh University Spring 2005
Participant in Volkmar Dierolf’s grant on optical technologies NSF 2004
Study Visit Research Grant (Humboldt U in Berlin, Germany) DAAD Fall 2003
Sabbatical leave Lehigh University 2003-04
Faculty Research Grant (Hanns Eisler) Lehigh University Spring 2003
President and Provost’s Travel Grant (Puerto Rico conference) Lehigh U 2002
President and Provost’s Travel Grant (Italy conference) Lehigh U 2001
Ventures Grant for Theater Course Lehigh University 2000
Faculty Research Grant (Anna Seghers) Lehigh University Spring 2000
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President and Provost’s Travel Grant (Norway conference) Lehigh U 2000
German Exile Studies Research Grant U of Southern California 1998
“Bertolt Brecht: The Berlin Years” NEH Seminar in Berlin Summer 1998
Visiting Scholar (sabbatical leave) Indiana University 1996-97
Paul J. Franz Junior Faculty Fellowship Lehigh University Summer 1996
Faculty Research Grant (Wagner/Brecht) Lehigh University 1995
Paul J. Franz Junior Faculty Fellowship Lehigh University Summer 1994
Class of 1968 Junior Faculty Fellowship Lehigh University Summer 1993
Oscar Seidlin Fellowship Indiana University 1988-89
IU - Freie Universität Berlin Exchange Indiana University 1987-88
Graduate Research Fellowship Indiana University Spring 1986
IU German Department Fellowship Indiana University 1983-84
Warshaw Award University of Missouri 1981
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
JOURNAL EDITOR
Communications from the International Brecht Society January 1991 - December 1995
I edited and produced eight journal issues, eighty pages each, twice a year for four years.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
The Brecht Yearbook, 2002 —
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The Lehigh Review, 2000 —
REVIEWER
Reviewer for the journal German Studies Review Spring 2009
Book manuscript reviewer for Edwin Mellen Press Fall 2007
Tenure reviewer for Northern Arizona State University Summer 2007
Textbook reviewer for Houghton Mifflin Spring 2007
Book manuscript reviewer for University of California Press Spring 2005
Reviewer for the journal Modern Drama Fall 2001
Reviewer for the journal German Quarterly Spring 1999
Reader evaluating applicants for Lehigh’s NEH Seminar on
Fin de Siècle Vienna by Nadine Sine Spring 1999
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and INVITED LECTURES
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“Concepts of Fremde and Fremdheit in Yoko Tawada’s Writings.” Honolulu, Brecht in/and
Asia: 13 th Symposium of the International Brecht Society (IBS), May 2010.
“Global Contexts in Texts by Anna Seghers.” Washington, GSA, October 2009.
“Exile and Return: Anna Seghers in Mexico and the GDR.” Berlin, Germany, 5 th International
and Interdisciplinary Conference Alexander von Humboldt 2009: Travels between
Europe and the Americas, July 2009.
“Pina Bausch’s Cross-Cultural Work in Cinema and Dance.” St. Paul, GSA, October 2008.
“Brechtian Traces in Pina Bausch’s Choreographic and Cinematic Work.” Helsinki, Finland,
11 th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI),
July 2008.
“Pina Bausch’s Nefes in the Context of her Aesthetics of Theatre, Dance, and Film.” Ankara,
Turkey, Aesthetics Bridging Cultures: 17 th International Congress of Aesthetics, July
2007.
“Eisler and Brecht: New Eisler Interpretations.” Valletta, Malta, 10 th Conference of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), July 2006.
“Fatzer’s Fall: From Brecht to Müller to a Recent French Production in Lyon.” Augsburg,
Germany, Brecht and Death / Brecht und der Tod: 12 th Symposium of the International
Brecht Society (IBS), July 2006.
“Anna Seghers’s Postwar Prose: Attempt at an Intercultural Reading.” Bloomington, Indiana,
Conference on Trajectories: The Past and Future of German Studies, March 2006.
“Exile Experiences and Hybrid Identities in Anna Seghers’s Writings.” Honolulu, 4 th Annual
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2006.
“Hanns Eisler in a Post-Communist Age.” Milwaukee, GSA, September 2005.
“Anna Seghers: Intercultural Approaches.” Pamplona, Spain, 9 th Conference of the International
Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), August 2004.
“Masks in Anna Seghers’s Narratives.” Louisville, 20 th Century Literature Conference, February
2004.
“Hanns Eisler Composing for the Film Frauenschicksale: A Musical Anti-Mahagonny?” Berlin,
Germany, Mahagonny.com: 11 th Symposium of the International Brecht Society (IBS),
June 2003.
“Bentley on Brecht: An Interview.” New York, MLA, December 2002.
“Anna Seghers’s Mexican Prose.” San Juan, Puerto Rico, ACLA, April 2002.
“Exploring Identities through Narrative Strategies: Bertolt Brecht and Giordano Bruno.” Naples,
Italy, 25 th Conference of the International Movement for Interdisciplinary Study of
Estrangement (IMISE), July 2001.
“Crisanta: A Mexican Tale from the GDR.” Tucson, Women in German Conference, October
2000.
“Mahagonny, Macheath, and Murieta: Forms of Epic Theater in Works by Bertolt Brecht and
Pablo Neruda.” Bergen, Norway, 7 th Conference of the International Society for the
Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), August 2000.
“Film Music: The Case of Hanns Eisler.” Tallahassee, On the Edge of Time: 25 th Annual
Conference on Film and Literature, January 2000.
“Hanns Eisler’s Film Music: Theory and Practice.” Also: Chair of the session on Dissonant
Identities: Sound, Culture, Politics. Atlanta, GSA, October 1999.
“Teaching Bertolt Brecht: A Workshop.” Lancaster, Pennsylvania AATG, November 1998.
Panelist on the session on “Videoconferencing: Four Years of Cooperative Experience.”
Mechanicsburg, PA, First Annual Meeting of CAPE: A Community of Agile Partners in
Education, November 1998.
“Bertolt Brecht and Pablo Neruda: Poetry and Politics.” San Diego, Brecht 100 2000:
Culture and Politics in These Times, 10 th Symposium of the International Brecht Society
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(IBS), May 1998.
“Hanns Eisler’s Film Music for DEFA.” Amherst, MA, Conference on The Cinema of Eastern
Germany: The View from North America, October 1997.
“‘Commedia dell’Arte’ and ‘Verfremdung’: Ferruccio Busoni’s Epic Theatre.” Utrecht,
Netherlands, 5 th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
(ISSEI), August 1996.
“Ferruccio Busoni.” Toronto, Canada, Why Theatre, Choices for the New Century: An
International Conference and Theatre Festival, November 1995.
“Busoni, Weill und Brecht: Zur Entwicklung des epischen Musiktheaters.” Augsburg, Germany,
9 th Symposium of the International Brecht Society (IBS), March 1995.
“Caribaldi and Casals: Literature and Music in the Works of Thomas Bernhard.” Graz, Austria,
4 th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI),
August 1994.
“Thomas Bernhard’s Literary Scores.” Morgantown, West Virginia University 18 th Annual
Colloquium on Literature and Film: Literature and the Other Arts, September 1993.
“An Opera for Three Pennies, a Violin for Ten Francs: Brecht’s and Stravinsky’s Approaches to
Epic Opera.” Newark, Delaware, Brecht Symposium, February 1992.
“Buchpremiere” at the Brecht Zentrum in Berlin, Germany. I presented Das epische
Musiktheater bei Strawinsky und Brecht in December 1991.
“Brecht und die Oper: Seine Sprache im Spiegel der Musiktheorie.” Augsburg, Germany,
Conference of the International Brecht Society (IBS), December 1991.
“Fictions of the Distant Past in German Literature.” Response paper for the session German II:
Language and Literature After 1700, Chicago, M/MLA, November 1991.
“Thomas Bernhard’s Wittgensteins Neffe: Biography, Literature, Music.” Kansas City, M/MLA,
November 1990.
“Strawinsky und Brecht: Zur Poetik der epischen Oper.” Bloomington, Indiana, German Faculty
Colloquium, October 1988.
“Le livre et le violon: Literature and, as, or against Music in Stravinsky/Ramuz’ Histoire du
soldat.” Boston, NEMLA, November 1987.
“Stravinsky and Brecht: Unknown Correspondences.” Bloomington, Indiana, Comparative
Literature Music and the Arts Colloquium, March 1987.
ORGANIZED or CHAIRED PROFESSIONAL SESSIONS
Chair and respondent at the session on Post-Communist Brecht. Philadelphia, MLA, December
2009.
Chair and respondent at the session on Brecht and Masculinity. Philadelphia, MLA, December
2006.
Respondent at the session on Brecht and Violence. Philadelphia, MLA, December 2004.
Moderator of the session on The Dilemma of the Socialist Artist: Hanns Eisler’s Exile and
Return. Washington, GSA, October 2004.
Moderator of the session on Welfare in Conflict: Church and State, 1933-1960. Washington,
GSA, October 2001.
Chair of the session on The Operatic Body, and Chair and Respondent of the session on Women
Performing Brecht. San Francisco, MLA, December 1998.
Chair of the session on Queering Brecht. Toronto, MLA, December 1997.
Respondent at the session on Brecht in Translation: The Threepenny Opera. Washington, MLA,
December 1996.
Chair of the session on Teaching Brecht. Chicago, MLA, December 1995.
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Respondent at the session on Brecht and Modern Poetry. San Diego, MLA, December 1994.
Chair and discussant at the session on Gender and Style in Modern German Literature. St.
Louis, M/MLA, November 1992.
PRESENTATIONS AT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
“Hanns Eisler and Film Music.” MLL Seminar, February 1999.
“Bertolt Brecht and Pablo Neruda: Poetry and Politics.” IR Colloquium, October 1997.
“Thomas Bernhard, Glenn Gould, and the Goldberg Variations.” MFL Seminar, April 1994.
“Thomas Bernhard’s Wittgenstein’s Nephew: Literature, Music, Philosophy.” MFL Seminar,
February 1991.
“Bertolt Brecht and Igor Stravinsky: Unknown Correspondences.” IR Colloquium, November
1990.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (through May 2011)
GCP/MLL 6: Globalization and Cultures (two semesters)
German 1: Elementary German I (two semesters)
German 2: Elementary German II (nine semesters)
German 11: Intermediate German I (five semesters)
German 12: Intermediate German II (eleven semesters)
German 163: German Civilization and Culture (five semesters)
German 167: Conversation and Composition (three semesters)
German 169: Business German (four semesters)
Germ/Thtr 211: German Drama (three semesters)
Germ/Thtr 218: Goethe’s Faust (four semesters)
Germ/MLL 231: New German Cinema (six semesters)
German 240: Contemporary Germany (four semesters)
German 267: Advanced Conversation and Composition (four semesters)
German 269: Advanced Professional German (three semesters)
Fren/Germ/Span/Thtr 298: Best Plays in the World (one semester)
German 301: Survey of German Literature (four semesters)
German/WS/MLL 303: Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Folklore, Feminism, Film (four semesters)
German 305: Modern German Literature (four semesters)
German 320: Berlin: Transformations of a Metropolis (five semesters)
German 325: Nineteenth Century German Literature (two semesters)
German 341: Applied Phonetics and Linguistics (one semester)
German 345: German Short Stories (six semesters)
WS/MLL 403 (graduate): Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Folklore, Feminism, Film (two semesters)
Indiana University Graz Program (I taught German 200, German 250, and
organized cultural events in Austria) Summer 1985
German 275: Fifth Semester (Indiana University) (two semesters)
German 363: German Cultural History (Indiana University) (two semesters)
Comp. Lit. 255: Literature and the Other Arts (Indiana University) (three semesters)
Spanish 100: First Semester (University of Missouri) (two semesters)
SERVICE
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SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COLLEGE
Participant, CAS Retreat May 2008
Participant, CAS Retreat May 2006
Participant, CAS Retreat May 2005
Freshmen Advisor and Instructor of Arts 1, Choices and Decisions Fall 2005
Member, Fulbright Selection Committee at Lehigh University Fall 2002
Co-chair, A&S Policy Committee 2001-02
Member, A&S Policy Committee 2000-03
Freshmen Advisor and Instructor of Arts 1, Choices and Decisions Spring 2000
Reviewer of articles for Lehigh Review 2000 —
Taylor College Faculty Fellow 1999-2005
Freshmen Advisor and Instructor of Arts 3, Choices and Decisions Fall 1999
Freshmen Advisor and Instructor of A&S 1, Choices and Decisions Fall 1994
SERVICE TO INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS
Member, Eccentral Committee (Humanities Center Advisory Board) Fall 2008 —
Member, Women’s Studies Steering Committee Fall 2008 —
Member, German Studies Institute Planning Committee Spring 2008
Member, European Studies Planning Committee Fall 2007
Participant, 5 th Annual International Colloquium on International
Engineering Education in Warwick, RI October 2002
Goethe Institute Seminar on the Examinations “Zertifikat Deutsch für den Beruf”
and “Prüfung Wirtschaftsdeutsch International” in White Plains, NY Dec. 2000
Participant, CIBER Workshop on Teaching Business Language,
Columbus, Ohio June 2000
SERVICE TO THE MLL DEPARTMENT
LVAIC Director in Bonn, Germany Summer 2011
Co-chair, MLL International Scholars Lecture Series (Leslie Adelson) Spring 2009
Member, MLL Planning Committee Fall 2007
Chair, MLL Scholarship Committee 2008-10
Member, MLL Scholarship Committee 2006-10
LVAIC Director in Bonn, Germany Summer 2004
German teacher for middle school students in the S.T.A.R. Academy Dec. 2002
Member, MLL Technology Committee 2002 —
Member, MLL Outreach Committee 2002 —
German teacher for middle school students in the S.T.A.R. Academy January 2001
MLA Interviewer for MLL’s assistant professorship in Spanish Dec. 2000
Participant, Teaching with Technology Workshop in Madison, WI March 2000
MLL Library Liaison Fall 1999 —
LVAIC Director in Bonn, Germany Summer 1999
Member, Committee to write Visiting Committee Report Spring 1999
Advisor to the German Club at Lehigh University Fall 1998 —
Advisor of all majors and minors in German Fall 1997 —
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Designed, with Neil Toporski, multimedia project on The Threepenny Opera 1996
Member, MFL Scholarship Committee 1993-96
Chair, MFL Scholarship Committee 1994-95
Member, Committee to draft MFL guidelines for promotion 1994-95
Grader for German Language PhD Exams for the English Department 1994 —
Member, Committee to draft MFL Mission Statement, Lehigh University Spring 1993
Member, Language Laboratory Committee, Lehigh University 1990-91
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Vice-President of Central PA AATG (American Assoc. Teachers of German) 2010-2012
Member, Executive Committee of Central PA AATG 2010-2014
Reader for German Honors Thesis on Walls (Berlin/Jerusalem) at Moravian C. Spring 2010
Reader for German Honors Thesis on Heinrich Heine at Moravian College Spring 1999
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
German Studies Association (GSA)
International Brecht Society (IBS)
Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft (IHEG)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Women in German (WiG)
LANGUAGES
German: native speaker
English: native fluency
Spanish: fluency in speaking, writing, and reading
French: fluency in reading and speaking
Latin: advanced reading knowledge (“Großes Latinum” in Germany)
Russian: three semesters in college
Esperanto: I completed a ten lesson correspondence course.
OTHER INTERESTS
Piano Study for Over Ten Years
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