Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Research & Teaching Interests: 20th Century German Drama and Film Studies, Bertolt Brecht, Literature and Music, Language Pedagogy

Awards: Member, College of Liberal Arts PETL Academy of Teaching and Outstanding Teachers, 2004

• "April 14, 1980 - Volker Schloendorff's Die Blechtrommel and the Academy Award" in A New History of German Cinema (University of South Carolina Press, 2009)
• "Doris Doerrie: The Writer as Filmmaker - The Director as Writer" in Straight Through the Heart: Doris Doerrie, German Filmmaker and Author, edited by Klaus Phillips and Franz Birgel (Scarecrow Press, New Jersey & London, 2004)
• "The Director and the Diva: The Film Musicals of Zarah Leander and Detlev Sierck" in Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens, edited by Robert Reimer (University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
• "The Question of Cultural Idenity: The Figure of the Outsider in Michael Haneke's Adaptation of Joseph Roth's 'Die Rebellion' " in Studies in Recent Austrian Literature and Film, edited by Willy Riemer (Ariadne Press: University of California at Riverside, 2001)