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Professor, World Languages and Cultures
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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