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CURRICULUM VITAE – NOVEMBER 2012
CORINNA KAHNKE
E-mail: corinna.kahnke@duke.edu
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

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
20 th - 21 st century German cinema
20 th - 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
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“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
“’Definitely Maybe’ – 90s Popliteratur and the Search for Identity.” Genre Fiction in German.
Allison Günther-Pal, Bruce Campbell, Vibke Petersen, eds. Camden House Press (forthcoming
2014)
Popular Music in 21 st 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
21 st 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 2012)
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).

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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 Winter 2012).
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 Fall
2012)
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)

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“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)
“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)

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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)
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)

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Co-Organizer, “Pop-Moderne.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference,
Chicago, IL (2003)
Graduate Student Conferences
“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
“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 21 st 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 20 th Century IUB, Bloomington, IN (2005)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Duke University
GER 101 “Beginning German I” (First-Year German)
Fall 2010
Text: Kontakte, Oktoberfest (graded reader)
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GER 117 “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
Teaching ‘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)
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 20 th /21 st Century
German authors in English translation (crosslisted as a General Education course)
Self-designed course
Summer 2008, fall 2009
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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)
Self-designed course
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

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)
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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
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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)
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
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
Literatures at Cal Poly, 2008
Departmental Conference Travel Award of the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures at Cal Poly, 2008
The Collins Living and Learning Center’s Carl H. Ziegler Teaching Award for the
academic year 2006-07

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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
Conference Travel Grant of the Department of Germanic Studies IUB, 2004
Foreign Student Award for Graduate Students, 2003
Conference Travel Grant of the Department of Germanic Studies IUB, 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
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
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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 21 st 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 “Oktoberfest in November” 2008
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 Film Series 2008-2009
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 “Oktoberfest in November” 2007
Organizer of German Film Series 2007-2008
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

ADVISEES
LANGUAGES
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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
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)
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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