Katherine Anderson
kea155@psu.edu
Lauren Brooks
ljb232@psu.edu
Courtney Johnson Fowler
cej136@psu.eduM.A., Bowling Green State University
Christine Gardner Christine Gardner is a PhD Candidate studying Germanic Linguistics. She received her B.A. in Linguistics with a minor in German from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah in 2007. Also at BYU, Christine received a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in 2009 and in 2010 received her M.A. in Language Acquisition and Teaching, specializing in German. Her current interests include the interactions between the German and English phonological systems, dialects in German and English, prosodic cues in German and English, pronunciation training, second language acquisition, and Pennsylvania Dutch. |
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Nora Hellmold
nxh924@psu.edu
Alison Eisel Hendricks Alison is a fourth year graduate student in Germanic Linguistics. She earned her B.A. in philosophy from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her current interests include child second language acquisition, North Frisian, and minority language learning. Specifically she is interested in how varying levels quantity and quality of input influence how children learn Frisian as their second language.
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Nicholas Henry Nick is a second year graduate student in German Applied Linguistics and Language Sciences. He is native of the Dallas area and completed his BA in German at Texas Tech University. At the conclusion of that degree, he studied for a semester in Quedlinburg, Germany. He also completed an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and an M.A. in German at Texas Tech. He has published two articles on Processing Instruction and the effects of explicit information in German. His academic interests include second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and sentence processing, and second language pedagogy. |
Hyoun-A Joo
huj122@psu.edu
Ines Martin
iam117@psu.edu
Nataliya Mavdryk
nxm276@psu.edu
Nicole McInteer Nicole McInteer is an Ph.D. candidate in German Literature and Culture. She completed her B.A. at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which included a year-long exchange at the Freie Universität Berlin. After graduating in 2006, she taught English as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Bruck an der Leitha, Austria. Her current research interests are 20th century Austrian Literature, the writings of Joseph Roth, travel writing and the ethnolinguistic minorities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She is currently on exchange in Kiel, Germany at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität. |
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Ashley Roccamo Ashley is a second year graduate student studying German linguistics at Penn State. She received her B.A. in German from Millersville University in 2007. Her current academic interests include language contact, phonology, and sociolinguistics. Specifically, she is interested in how the phonological systems of German and English interact and influence each other in situations of contact. |
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Patricia Schempp
pls191@psu.edu
Juliane Schicker Juliane received her teaching certification for Gymnasien (1. Staatsexamen) from The Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany) in German and English. Her state exam thesis Klassenfahrten und Interkulturelles Lernen was awarded with the "Joseph-Schmitt-Sonderpreis 2007." She earned her Masters Degree in German from The Texas Tech University with a thesis about German Popliterature of the 1990s. She published her article "Die Beeinflussung der Jugend durch den nationalsozialistischen Sprachstil. Eine Analyse ausgewählter Liedbeispiele aus der Jungen Gefolgschaft" in the Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (2011). Besides teaching students of all ages, her interests include questions of identity, the re-unification, the artistic expression of the self and the other, as well as the connection between literature, philosophy, and music. She hopes to pursue this last triad in her dissertation project. Outside of academia, Juliane enjoys the making of, and listening to, music in all its forms and variations. |
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Liese Sippel
les255@psu.edu
Katja Stuckatz Katja is a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in German Literature. She received the degree of Magister Artium from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany) in German Literature, Philosophy, and Art History. In her dissertation, Ernst Jandl’s Poetics and the International Avant-Garde, she examines the reception of Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, and John Cage by the Austrian post-World War II poet Ernst Jandl. Katja was awarded a grant from the Botstiber Foundation for Austrian-American Studies in support of her work on the doctoral thesis. Recent publications: “Atemschrift: Ernst Jandl’s Experimental Poetics“, in: Modern Austrian Literature (forthcoming Spring 2012). “Von der anderen Seite der Sprache – Mehrsprachigkeit, Ausdrucksdefizit und Expressivität”, in: Über Grenzen sprechen. Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa und der Welt (forthcoming Spring 2012). |
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Adam Toth Adam J. Toth completed his undergraduate in Comparative Literature, with an emphasis in German and Japanese Literature and Film, at the University of California, Riverside. Adam studied abroad at Georg-August Universitaet in Goettingen as an undergraduate during the 2008 Winter Semester. Adam's research interests include intertextuality, adaptation/film studies, drama and theater, queer theory/LGBT studies, and orientalisms. Adam is particularly interested in the works of Franz Kafka, Berthold Brecht, Peter Weiss, Bruno Vogel, Volker Schloendorf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Yoko Tawada. |
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Jacob Vanderkolk Jake VanderKolk is an ABD student in German Literature. He graduated from Michigan State University in 2004 with B.A.s in Philosophy and German, and has specific interests in early 20th Century literature and aesthetic theory. He is currently working on his dissertation Reading in Time: Provocations of the Reader in Early 20th Century German Stream-of-Consciousness Narrative, which deals with historical developments of the inner monologue technique in works by Arthur Schnitzler, Alfred Döblin, and Hermann Broch. His curriculum vitae is available at http://personal.psu.edu/jav209. |
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Donald Vosburg B.A., Minnesota State University |
