Professional Service

  • Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Role: Journal Editor. Journal Editor. 01/01/2023 - present
  • American Association of Teachers of German. Role: Member. FLACH Committee, . 08/01/2020 - 05/31/2023
  • Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German . Role: Member. Editorial Board . 08/01/2020 - 05/31/2022
  • German Quarterly. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 08/01/2020 - 05/31/2022
  • American Association of Teachers of Geraman. Role: Member. Fundraising Committee. 01/2020 - 12/2020
  • Forum for Modern Language Studies (UK). Manuscript Review. 12/01/2017 - 12/31/2017
  • Women in German Yearbook . Role: Reviewer. Manuscript Review. 01/2017 - 12/2017
  • Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Member Editorial Board. 11/2016 - present
  • German Quarterly. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 11/2015 - present
  • German Studies Association. Seminar Organizing Committee. 09/2014 - 08/2015
  • American Association of Teachers of German. Role: Chair. LACH Committee (Liechtenstein, Austria, Switzerland). 08/2013 - present
  • Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Editorial Board. 01/2013 - 12/2015
  • Unterrichtspraxis. Reviewer of scholarly article. 01/07/2012 - 06/30/2013
  • MLA. Organizer Panel “German Graduate Education 2020: Strategies for the Future.“ Panel sponsored by AATG and included in the Presidential Theme, "Language, Literature, Learning." Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2012. 01/2012 - 01/2012
  • MLA. Organizer Panel “German in the Life of the University.” Panel sponsored by AATG. Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 2011. 01/2011 - 01/2011
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Reviewer. 10/01/2010 - 05/01/2011
  • American Association of Teachers of German. Role: Northwestern Representative to the Board. Represent northwestern region (Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Northern California) to national board. 01/01/2010 - 12/31/2012

Internal Service

  • Merit Committee. Member, 08/2023 - 05/2024. Department service.
  • Dee Council. Member, 08/01/2021 - 05/31/2024. College service.
  • Write internal self study. lead writer, 08/01/2021 - 05/31/2022. Department service.
  • RPT committee. Chair, 08/01/2020 - 05/31/2021. College service.
  • Executive Committee Mtg. Member, 08/01/2020 - 05/31/2021. Department service.
  • Intensive German Language and Culture in Kiel. Co-director, 08/2019 - 06/2020. University service.
  • Section Head German. Section Head, 08/01/2019 - 06/30/2022. Department service.
  • RPT committee. Member, 08/01/2019 - 06/30/2020. College service.
  • Organizer, reading of Austrian author Theodora Bauer, Department of World Languages and Culture, University of Utah, November 20-22, 2018. Organizer, 11/20/2018 - 11/22/2018. Department service.
  • Peer Reviewer. Member, 08/2017 - 06/2018. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. Member, 08/2017 - 06/2018. Department service.
  • Merit Committee. Member, 08/2017 - 06/2018. Department service.
  • Research, Promotion, tenure (RPT). Chair , 03/2017 - 06/2018. Department service.
  • Program Director, Learning Abroad, Kiel. Program Director, 09/2016 - 09/2018. University service.
  • Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights. Member, 07/2016 - present. University service.
  • College of Humanities Executive Committee. Member, 07/2016 - 06/2017. College service.
  • Peer Reviewer. Member, 07/2015 - 06/2016. Department service.
  • Senate Executive Committee. Member, 07/2015 - 06/2016. University service.
  • Member Faculty Senate, University of Utah. 07/2014 - 06/2017. University service.
  • College of Humanities Executive Committee. member, 07/2014 - 06/2015. College service.
  • Ad hoc post-tenure committee for Dr. Gema Guevara, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah. Member, 01/2013 - 03/15/2013. Department service.
  • Teaching Advisory Committee, Department of Languages and Literature. Chair, 08/2012 - 05/2013. Department service.
  • Ad hoc post-tenure committee for Dr. Joseph Metz, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Utah. Member, 01/2012 - 03/15/2012. Department service.
  • Chair Search Committee. Member, 09/01/2011 - 06/30/2012. Department service.
  • Diversity Committee . Member, 07/2011 - 06/30/2012. University service.
  • University Teaching Assistant Committee. Reviewer, 03/01/2011 - 03/09/2011. University service.
  • Teaching Advisory Committee. chair, 08/01/2010 - 06/30/2013. Department service.
  • Peer Reviewer, Teaching. 08/01/2010 - 06/30/2013. Department service.
  • University Scholarship Committee. member, 08/01/2010 - 06/30/2013. University service.
  • Section Representative . 08/01/2007 - 05/01/2009. Department service.
  • CLCS advisory committee. member, 08/01/2007 - 06/30/2008. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Bryant Middle School. 08/01/2021 - 05/31/2022
  • Salt Lake Arts Academy. 08/01/2020 - 05/31/2021

Outreach

  • Organizer of visit of Swiss Writer Christoph Simon. 11/26/2012 - 11/28/2012

Honors & Awards

  • The ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 11/2017
  • FLACH Award for the teaching of Austria, the German-speaking areas of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Südtirol in the US . American Association of Teachers of German, 11/19/2016
  • Summer Research Fellowship. DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Ausstauschdienst) , 05/01/2015
  • Best Article Award 2013 for “‘Ich kam unter die Schweizer.’ Teaching Switzerland as a Multi-Ethnic Society.” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. 45.2 (2012): 107-126. Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Journal of the American Association of Teachers of German, 11/23/2013
  • Vitality Award. Utah Foreign Language Association, 06/2011
  • Junior Research Award. Fulbright Organization, 2005
  • Max Kade Award for best article. Modern Austrian Literature Association, 2004
  • Transatlantisches Nachwuchsförderungsprogram Deutsch als Fremdsprache (TraiNDaF). Federal Government of Germany, 2004
  • Berlin Summer Seminar. National Endowment of the Humanities, 2000

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