Jameson Bell Jameson studied Philosophy, German and Literature at Bethel College (2000). Masters Degree in German Studies at the Pennsylvania State University with the Thesis, “Literary Criticism and Peter Handke: an Ethic of Textual Experience“ (2002). Taught Special Education English from 2002-2006. Jameson returned to the German Department with a new focus, namely, to explore the production of the brain as an cultural object through image and text (2006-2008). Currently a Fulbright Fellow at the ETH-Zürich working on his dissertation project, “Early Modern Intersections of Brain and Theater: Performing Physical and Cultural Vivisections.” Websites: http://www.wiss.ethz.ch/en/person/pfw/jameson-bradley-bell-gast.html http://www.zgw.ethz.ch/de/graduiertenkolleg/kollegiatinnen.html
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Joshua Brown Josh Brown is an ABD student in German and Applied Linguistics. He received his BA in German (minoring in Slavic and Classical languages) from Millersville University. He has worked at the Deutscher Sprachatlas (Philipps-Universität in Marburg) on the Hessen-Nassau dictionary project and at the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies (Millersville University) on the Comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary project. His current research deals with Anabaptist language behavior in Central Pennsylvania. He has interests in language maintenance / shift, sociolinguistics, sociology of language & religion, language & gender, language & sexuality, linguistic anthropology, and business German. |
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Beate Brunow Beate Brunow is a third year graduate student in German Literature with a minor in Women’s Studies. She began her B.S. in Biology at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) and completed the degree at the University of Wyoming in 2004. She received her M.A. in German Literature from the University of Wyoming and started the PhD Program at Penn State in 2006. Her dissertation project deals with the 19th century artist drama and questions of gender and creativity. |
Imke Brust M.A., Christian-Alrechts-Universität, Kiel. |
Tejashri Chindhade
tsc151@psu.eduI did my Masters from J.N.U (New Delhi), and later worked for some years, before coming to the U.S in Fall 2004 to the German Dept. I am currently working on German and Marathi women's feminist writings in a comparative perspective. My expected date of completing my Ph.D is Spring 2010.
Allison Eisel Alison is a first year graduate student in German Applied Linguistics. She received her B.A. in philosophy from Occidental College with a minor in German, and is originally from Southern California. While studying at Occidental she spent a semester at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. She is interested in language acquisition, language contact, dialectology and foreign language pedagogy. She is also interested in philosophy of language, especially the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. |
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Noelle Isenberg Noelle A. Isenberg is a Ph.D. candidate in German Applied Linguistics with a minor in General Linguistics. Her research interests include location-independent language learning, applied psycholinguistics, phonological working memory, and the neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of mobile language learning. The working title of her doctoral dissertation (advisors: Dr. Scott Payne, Amherst, and Dr. Richard Page, PSU) is A Comparative Study Of Web-Based and Classroom-Based German Language Education At the Post-Secondary Level: Working Memory, Synchronous CMC, and Oral Proficiency Development. Noelle earned a B.A. in German Education (7-12) with a minor in music at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. and holds a Level I Instructional Certificate in German K-12 from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She has also studied at the following campuses and institutions: Penn State's World Campus, Cornell University, and Universitaet Erfurt (Thuringia, Germany). At Penn State, Noelle has founded and directed the German Online at PSU program, Penn State’s first fully web-based language program, and in conjunction with Education Technology Services (ETS), she introduced and supervised the Foreign Languages Podcasting Studio and Studio Research Laboratory (merged with the University Learning Center in Sparks 7 in August 2007), which served students and faculty in languages ranging from Arabic to Swahili and constituted the most extensive use of pod/vodcasting technologies on any Penn State campus. Noelle currently directs and teaches in the German Online at PSU program (which now serves UP, World Campus, and numerous branch campus students) and is a pool faculty member in the Department of Foreign Languages at Sam Houston State University (a member of the Texas State University System), where she teaches German language courses via the web. |
Anne Jahn M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton |
Janice McGregor Janice is a second year Phd student in German/Applied Linguistics. She completed her B.A. at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) in 2004 and her M.A. at the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2006. While at the University of Waterloo, Janice spent a summer studying at the Universität Mannheim in Germany. During her undergraduate studies, she worked for three consecutive summers in Karlsruhe, Germany at Siemens AG. Janice's main research interests include foreign language education/learning as well as issues regarding language and identity. |
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Nicole McInteer Niki McInteer is a second year Ph.D student at Penn State. Her interests are predominately concerned with 20th Century Austrian Literature and Culture. She completed her BA 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. She has additional interests in travel, a topic that she hopes to combine with Austrian culture for her research. |
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Edwin McMillan Edwin McMillan grew up outside of Denver, Colorado and attended private school at Foothills Academy until he was accepted at the Colorado School of Mines in 2000. There he studied chemistry, mathematics and physics until he moved to northern Germany and began studying the German Language. After moving back to Colorado, he graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver in 2007 with a BA in Modern languages focusing in German and a minor in theoretical physics. His research interests at Pennsylvania State University include bilingual morphosyntatic processing in English-German bilingual populations and language production and comprehension in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasiacs. |
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Yasemin Mohammad Yasemin Mohammad is a fourth year Ph.D student at Penn State. She is a graduate of Bogazici University- Turkey where she studied English literature. She has a masters degree from Yeditepe University, where she specialized in postcolonial literatures. Her current research interests are 20th century German literature, minority literatures in Germany with an emphasis on Turkish-German and Arab-German writers, German colonial literature and the representation of Islam in German literature. |
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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Vladislav Rozanov |
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Katja Stuckatz Katja received the degree of Magister Artium from the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany) in German Literature, Philosophy and Art History. Katja’s research interests are modern and contemporary poetry, as well as aesthetics and literary theory. Her master’s thesis, Erlebnisse in Sprache, examines the poetics of the concrete and experimental poet Ernst Jandl. In her dissertation, she plans on further exploring the relation between poetry and linguistic consciousness, as well as the significance of performativity and embodiedness as constituents of contemporary poetry. |
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Liliya Valihun
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Jacob Vanderkolk Jake VanderKolk is a Ph.D. candidate in his final year of coursework at the Pennsylvania State University. He graduated from Michigan State University in 2004 with degrees in Philosophy and German Literature, and has specific interests in turn of the 20th Century literature with a specific focus on the temporal effects of modernity. He is currently on exchange in Marburg for the academic year of 2008-2009. His curriculum vitae is available at http://www.personal.psu.edu/jav209 |
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Donald Vosburg B.A., Minnesota State University |
Rebecca Zajdowicz Rebecca Zajdowicz is an ABD student in German Literature. She received her BA in Modern Languages, concentration German (minoring in International Studies) from Longwood University in Farmville, VA. Her current research deals with nineteenth century German women writers of the Vormärz period and questions of German identity. She has interests in feminist theory, German nationalism, women writers, nineteenth century German history and German language teaching. |
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Lena Poepplau Being originally from Hamburg/Germany, I am this year’s direct exchange student from the University of Kiel, and a Fulbright Travel grantee. I am pursuing a German state-governed teaching degree (Staatsexamen) in History and English in Kiel, and here at Penn State I am teaching German 001 and taking graduate seminars in German, English and History this fall. I am interested in various fields of History, Literary and Cultural Studies and their “intersections”, focusing on Early Modern History and Culture, and especially on Early American Studies. |
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Chia-Ling Chen Hey, |
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