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Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
German feature and documentary
films after 1945; culture and memory; national identity and German cinema;
German-Jewish Studies; discourse and narratology of German documentary films;
film and literature on the Holocaust; oral history and memory of Holocaust
survivors.
Right-wing women in
contemporary Germany.
Education
1984 Doctor Philosophiae
(Dr. phil.) in Modern Russian Literature, Humboldt Universität Berlin,
Germany.
1975 Diploma in Russian
and English Studies, Universität Leipzig, Germany.
Employment
1996 – present Assistant Professor of German, Goucher College,
Baltimore.
Grants
2004 TraiNDaF (DaF stands for German as a Foreign
Language), Leadership program for teachers of German, funded by German government,
meetings and seminars in April and June, ACTFL conference in November.
2003 Selected participant at Interdisciplinary
Summer Seminar at Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington/D.C., August 24-28.
2003 Summer
research grant (German feature films in the German language classroom),
Goucher College.
2002 Summer research grant
(“Jews in Hiding in WWII Berlin”), Goucher College.
2002 Selected participant
at Winter Seminar at Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington/D.C. January 6-12.
2001 NEH Summer Institute
in Vienna/Austria ("100 Years People of Vienna, 1848-1955"), June
8- July 13.
2001 Summer research grant
(work with documentary filmmaker Sibylle Tiedemann), Goucher College.
2000 Summer research grant
(“Jewish and non-Jewish Voices of Remembrance”), Goucher College.
1999 Fellowship, Holocaust Educational
Foundation, Chicago, June 21-July 2.
Publications
2003 Article (submitted):
“From Screen to Scene: Film Analysis in the German Language Classroom.”
2003 Article: “Bridging
the Silence: Jewish and non-Jewish Voices of Remembrance -- Sibylle
Tiedemann's documentary film Kinderland
ist abgebrannt (1997),” Glossen
17(2003). www.dickinson.edu/glossen.
2003 Book review
(Baccetta/Power. Right Wing Women.
Routledge 2002), Women Studies
International Forum. Volume 26, Issue 4 (July-August 2003): p.385.
Professional Papers
2003 “Film Analysis in the German Language Classroom.”
Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago/IL, November 8.
2003 “A
Tragic Love Story: Jews in Hiding in WWII Berlin.” 7th
Annual Conference: The New Europe at the Crossroads, Berlin/Germany, July 2.
2003 “German-Jewish
Identity and Narrative Voices in Lisa Lewenz’ Letter Without Words (1998).”
Society for German-American Studies Conference, Baltimore/MD, April 25.
2002 Commentator and
Organizer of session “Women in Right Wing Movements in Germany”, German
Studies Association Conference, San Diego/CA, October 5.
2002 “Memories: Kinderland – a documentary film from
Germany,” First African History and Film Conference, Cape Town/South Africa,
July 7.
2002 “Bridging the
Silence: Jewish and non-Jewish German Women in Dialogue”, Northeast Modern
Languages Association Conference, Toronto/Canada, April 13.
2002 “Jewish and
non-Jewish Voices of Remembrance,” German Studies Association Conference,
Washington/D.C., October 6.
2001 “Neo-Nazi Women in
German Documentaries in the 1980’s and 1990’s”, Women in German Conference,
Rio Rico/AZ, October, 20.
2001 “'Veronika, der Lenz
ist da.': The use of the feature film
The Comedian Harmonists, at all levels of foreign language acquisition,”
Northeast Modern Languages Association Conference, Hartford/CT, March 31.
Public Presentations
2003 Organizer and facilitator, In Memory of Hilde Stern Cohen, Commemoration of Kristallnacht,
Goucher College, November 3.
2003 Organizer and
facilitator, People Like Us – Social
Class in America, Goucher College, March 26.
2002 Organizer and
facilitator, Human Rights Film Festival (Love
Story, a documentary film), Goucher College, March 12.
2002 “Jewish and
non-Jewish Dialogue in Ulm/Germany,” presentation at the Goethe Society in
Washington/D.C., January 31.
2001 Organizer and
speaker, An Evening with Madame F
(musical performance by Claudia Stevens) and The Jewish Wife/The Informer (by Bertolt Brecht, presented by
Baltimore Performance Workshop Theater Company), YomHaShoah (Holocaust
Remembrance Day), April 12 and 26.
2000 Organizer and
speaker, Rediscovering My Childhood –
Memoirs of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust, public event with filmmaker
and narrator Max Amichai Heppner, Goucher College, April 6.
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