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Teaching Experience / Courses Taught at University Level

2020/21 (University of Manitoba)

  • Spies: Stories of Secret Agents, Treason, and Surveillance (GRMN 2500/3500/4460) , 3 credits, Winter term, taught in English (with optional German assignment track)
  • Love in German Culture in English Translation (GRMN 1310, 3 credits, Fall term), taught in English, Remote Learning

2019/20 (University of Manitoba)

  • Representations of the Holocaust (GRMN 3262/7360) , 3 credits, term 1, taught in English
  • History in Literature in German Speaking Countries (GRMN 3290), 3 credits, term 2, taught in German
  • Directed Studies German Literary and Cultural Theory (GRMN 7200, 3 credits, term 2)

2018/19 (University of Manitoba)

  • German Representations of War (GRMN 3390/3392/4460/7350, 3 credits, term 1), taught in English (with additional German assignment track)
  • Love in German Culture in English Translation (GRMN 1310, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English

2017/18 (University of Manitoba)

  • Full year administrative research leave

2016/17 (University of Manitoba)

  • Love in German Culture in English Translation (GRMN 1310, 3 credits, term 1), taught in English
  • Introduction to German Culture from 1918 to the Present (GRMN 2120, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • German Literary and Cultural Theory (GRMN 4200/7200, 3 credits, term 1)
  • Word War Two in Germany and Russia, co-taught with Elena Baraban (GRMN 3530/4670/7350, SLAV 3530, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • Directed Studies Public Memory and World War Two (Museums, Memorials, and Memoryscapes) (GRMN 7360, 3 credits, term 2)
  • One reading class"Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 2)

2015/16 (University of Manitoba)

  • Senior Seminar in German Studies (GRMN 4600, 3 credits, term 2), taught in German
  • Two reading classes "Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 2)

2014/15 (University of Manitoba)

  • Love in German Culture in English Translation (GRMN 1310, 3 credits, term 1), taught in English
  • German Representations of War (GRMN 3390/3392/4460/7350, 3 credits, term 1), taught in English (with additional German assignment track)
  • Representations and Memories of World War One in Comparative Perspective, co-taught with Adam Muller (GRMN 3510/4640/7300 & ENGL 3800 , 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • Two reading classes "Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 2)

2013/14 (University of Manitoba)

  • History in Literature in German Speaking Countries (GRMN 3290 / 4640 / 7350, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Senior Seminar in German Studies (GRMN 4600 / 7200, 3 credits, term 2) , taught in German
  • Three reading classes "Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 1 and term 2)

2012/13 (University of Manitoba)

  • Love in German Culture in English Translation (GRMN 1310, 3 credits, term 1), taught in English
  • Introduction to German Culture 1 (GRMN 2130, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • German Romanticism (GRMN 3250 / 4640 / 7300, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Directed Study "Literary and Cultural Theory" (GRMN 7200, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Reading class "Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 2)

2011/12 (University of Manitoba)

  • Research Leave Winter 2012 (January 1- June 30, 2012)
  • Introduction to German Culture 2 (GRMN 2130, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • Senior Seminar in German Studies (GRMN 4600, 3 credits, term 2) , taught in German
  • Directed Study "German Memory of World War II since 1990" (GRMN 7360, 3 credit hours), taught in German

2010/11 (University of Manitoba)

  • Germany and Russia in World War II, co-taught with Elena Baraban (GRMN 3520/4640/7360, SLAV 3520, 6 credits), taught in English
  • Love in German Culture in English Translation (GRMN 1310, 3 credits, term 1), taught in English
  • Introduction to German Culture 1 (GRMN 2120, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • Beginning German (GRMN 1120, 3 credits, term 2)

2009/10 (University of Manitoba)

  • Intermediate German (GRMN 2100, 6 credits)
  • German Literary and Cultural Theory (GRMN 4200/7200, 3 credits, term), taught in German
  • Introduction to German Culture 2 (GRMN 2130, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • Reading class: "German Modernism" (GRMN 4610/7300, 3 credits, term 2), taught in German
  • Reading class: "Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 2)

2008/09 (University of Manitoba)

  • Research Leave Fall 2008 (July 1 - December 31, 2008)
  • Representations of War (GRMN 3390 / 3392 / 4640, 3 credits, term 2), taught in German & English
  • Senior Seminar in German Studies (GRMN 4600, 3 credits, term 2) , taught in German

2007/08 (University of Manitoba)

  • Introduction to German Culture 2 (GRMN 2130, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • Exploring German Literature (GRMN 2140, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • German Romanticism (GRMN 3250, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Beginning German (GRMN 1120, 3 credits, term 1)
  • Reading class "Literary and Cultural Theory" (GRMN 7200, 3 credits, term 1)
  • Reading class "Concepts and Narratives of Reality in Modern German Literature" (GRMN 4610, 3 credits, term 1)
  • Reading class "Senior Seminar in German Studies" (GRMN 4600, 3 credits, term 1)
  • Reading class "Honours Thesis in German Studies" (GRMN 4570, 3 credits, term 2)

2006/07 (University of Manitoba)

  • Introduction to German Culture 1 (GRMN 2120, 3 credits, term 2), taught in English
  • History in Literature in German Speaking Countries (GRMN 3290, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Senior Seminar in German Studies (GRMN 4600, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Intermediate German (GRMN 2100, 3 credits, term 1)

2005/06 (University of Manitoba)

  • Twentieth Century German Literature I (German 8.245, 3 credits, term 1), taught in German
  • Representations of War (German 8.338, 3 credits, term 2), taught in German
  • “Senior Seminar in German Studies” (German 8.453/8.742, 3 credits, term 1), reading course for two PreMA and one MA student, taught in German
  • Intermediate German (German 8.210, 6 credits)

2004/05 (University of Manitoba)

  • German Romanticism (German 8.351, 3 credits, term 2)
  • Beginning German (German 8.112, 3 credits, term 2)
  • Intermediate German (German 8.210, 6 credits)

Spring 2004 (University of Colorado at Boulder)

  • Representing the Holocaust (German 2502), core course in the arts and sciences curriculum, taught in English (72 students)
  • Current Issues in German Literature (German 3140), seminar, taught in German
  • Advanced Conversation and Grammar (German 3010)

Fall 2003 (University of Colorado at Boulder)

  • Introduction to Modern German Culture and Civilization (German 1601), core course in the arts and sciences curriculum, taught in English (70 students)
  • Early European Modernism (German 4501), taught in English
  • Intermediate German 1 (German 2010)

Fall 2002 (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Exercises in German Style, graduate seminar (German 712)

Winter Semester 2000/01 (University of Sczecin, Poland)

  • Die Dichtung der Romantik (Fiction of Romanticism), undergraduate seminar
  • Subjektivität in der Lyrik (Subjectivity in Poetry), seminar for MA-students
  • Schriftlicher Ausdruck (Basic Writing), undergraduate course, 2 nd year
  • Wissenschaftsdeutsch I + II (Academic German), final year MA-students

Summer Semester 2000 (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

  • Einführung in die Literaturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaft (Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory), undergraduate course (Proseminar)

Winter Semester 1997/98 (Universität Bielefeld)

  • Lyrik der Romantik: ein deutsch-englischer Vergleich (A Contrastive Analysis of German and English Romantic Poetry), undergraduate seminar, intensive course

Summer Semester 1997 (Universität Bielefeld)

  • Hermetik: Zugangsweisen und Beschreibungsverfahren moderner Lyrik (Hermetics: Ways of Understanding and Analysing Modern Poetry)

25. Jul. – 10. Aug. 2002: Co-teaching of a course of the Deutsche Schüler Akademie with Mirjam-Kerstin Holl, Gaesdonck:

  • “Aufgeklärt oder mesmerisiert? Kultur als Projektion des Eigenen und Fremden” (Enlightenment or Mesmerism? Culture as the Projection of the Self and the Other )

27. Jul. – 12. Aug. 2000: Co-teaching of a course of the Deutsche Schüler Akademie with Mirjam-Kerstin Holl, Grovesmühle:

  • “Von tierischen Aeronauten und menschlichen Sitten. Die Rolle der Kultur in Europa 1780-1800” (The Role of Culture in Late Eighteenth Century Europe)