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Professor of German, World Languages and Cultures
Professional Service
- Gegenwartsliteratur.
Role: reviewer.
articel review.
11/10/2022 - 12/02/2022
- University of Victoria, Canada.
review of file for promotion to full professor.
08/15/2022 - 12/20/2022
- Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
Role: reviewer.
article review.
06/01/2022 - 08/10/2022
- German Studies Association.
Role: co-organzier.
Co-organize conference luncheon event "Food for Thought".
03/15/2022 - 09/16/2022
- Coalition of Women in German.
Role: member.
Dissertation Prize Committee.
03/15/2022 - 07/15/2022
- Focus on German Studies.
Role: reviewer.
article review.
02/01/2022 - 10/18/2022
- University of Oregon.
Role: reviewer.
review file for promotion to full professor.
01/19/2022 - 10/03/2022
- German Studies Association.
Role: Editor.
German Studies Review, .
09/01/2021 - present
- Modern Language Association.
Role: Chair.
Mildenberger Book Prize Committee.
04/26/2021 - 09/15/2021
- Monatshefte (journal).
Role: reviewer.
article review.
04/01/2021 - 07/30/2021
- Coalition of Women in German.
Role: member.
Dissertation Prize Committee.
04/01/2021 - 07/01/2021
- Kansas State University.
Role: reviewer.
review, promotion to full professor.
03/01/2021 - 08/13/2021
- German Studies Association.
Role: co-organizer.
"Food for Thought"/lighting talk presentations during luncheon.
02/01/2021 - 10/02/2021
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
Role: reviewer.
review summer fellowship applications.
09/30/2020 - 10/30/2020
- Fulbright Germany.
Role: reviewer.
review of application.
09/30/2020 - 10/30/2020
- University of Maryland.
review of faculty promotion file.
05/01/2020 - 08/10/2020
- Monatshefte.
Role: reviewer.
review article submission.
05/01/2020 - 06/30/2020
- German Studies Association.
Role: co-organizer of conference seminar.
conference organizing.
03/12/2020 - 11/02/2020
- German Studies Review.
Role: reviewer.
article review.
02/03/2020 - 03/30/2020
- Oakland University.
Role: external reviewer.
review of tenure file.
10/01/2019 - 11/05/2019
- Whitman College.
Role: external reviewer.
review of tenure file.
05/28/2019 - 08/20/2019
- U of Tennessee.
Role: external reviewer.
review of promotion file.
05/22/2019 - 09/23/2019
- Modern Language Association.
Role: selection committee member.
Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Committee (prize for best book in foreign language teaching).
05/02/2019 - 09/09/2019
- Fulbright Germany.
Evaluation of an application (doctoral student).
05/01/2019 - 05/13/2019
- Haverford College.
Role: external reviewer.
Review of tenure and promotion file.
09/03/2018 - 10/08/2018
- German Quarterly.
Role: external reviewer.
article review.
08/01/2018 - 09/20/2018
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Role: external reviewer.
Review about 20 fellowship applications; attend meeting in New York City.
04/02/2018 - 07/13/2018
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Read, evaluated and ranked scholarship applications.
11/01/2017 - 11/30/2017
- Brigham Young University.
Role: committee member.
Review of German and Russian department.
09/15/2017 - 10/02/2017
- University of Kentucky.
Role: external reviewer.
evaluate file for promotion to full professor.
05/01/2017 - 08/01/2017
- University of Texas, San Antonio.
Role: committee chair.
Review of Modern Languages and Literatures department.
04/03/2017 - 04/20/2017
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Read, evaluated and ranked scholarship applications.
11/01/2016 - 11/22/2016
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Role: external reviewer.
promotion review.
10/01/2016 - 12/15/2016
- U of Utah.
Role: external reviewer.
promotion review.
07/01/2016 - 08/15/2016
- Women in German.
Role: reviewer.
Article review.
01/11/2016 - 02/06/2016
- Gegenwartsliteratur (journal).
Role: reviewer.
article review.
12/21/2015 - 01/15/2016
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Serice).
Read, evaluated and ranked scholarship applications.
11/04/2015 - 11/17/2015
- Palgrave MacMillan, academic press.
Role: reviewer.
reviewed manuscript.
09/21/2015 - 10/23/2015
- Stockholm University.
Role: external reviewer.
Review of promotion case.
05/04/2015 - 08/14/2015
- OSU.
Role: external reviewer.
review of tenure case.
04/22/2015 - 09/03/2015
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Read, evaluated and ranked fellowship applications.
11/15/2014 - 12/15/2014
- German Studies Association.
For the third year in a row, I am co-organizing the GSA's Environmental Humanities Network; the work entail formulating and circulating an CfP, selecting proposals, creating and submitting a series of panels, communication with participants.
10/01/2014 - 02/16/2015
- German Studies Association.
This year, again, I am co-organizing the GSA's Environmental Humanities Network; the work entails formulating and circulating a CfP, reviewing submissions, and creating a series of panels.
12/15/2013 - 09/30/2014
- DAAD.
review of 10 grant applications.
11/15/2013 - 12/15/2013
- Camden House (academic press).
review 280-page manuscript.
12/2012 - 02/2013
- Lehigh University Press .
review 250-page manuscript.
11/2012 - 12/2012
- German Studies Association.
Role: co-cordinator (with Thomas Lekan, South Carolina University).
Create and coordinate GSA-Environmental Studies Network; solicit and select conference presentations; put together panels; submit panels to organizations' website.
09/2012 - 10/2013
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
review and rank 15 applications for short-term research fellowships in Germany.
01/15/2012 - 01/25/2012
- U of Cincinnati.
I co-organized a conference on Catastrophe and Catharsis at the University of Cincinnati; 20 participants; $15,000 budget.
01/02/2012 - 03/03/2013
Internal Service
- French Search Committee.
member,
08/29/2022 - 02/02/2023.
Department service.
- RPT-Chair.
chaired departmental RPT-committee,
02/01/2022 - 10/28/2022.
Department service.
- Dean Search Committee.
member,
03/01/2021 - 12/10/2021.
College service.
- International Studies internal review .
committee member,
11/02/2020 - 12/11/2020.
University service.
- Interim Director Environmental Humanities Graduate Program.
interim director,
07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021.
College service.
- Review of L2TReC.
internal reviewer,
11/01/2017 - 12/01/2017.
College service.
- Review of Art and Art History department/College of Fine Arts.
internal reviewer,
02/01/2017 - 03/15/2017.
University service.
- Conference organization (with Jeffrey McCarthy, George Handley, and Stephen Tatum) “The Future of Environmental Humanities Symposium, University of Utah, September 24-26, 2015.
conference co-organizer,
03/02/2015 - 09/27/2015.
College service.
- Committee member; Healthy4U Video Competition; invited by Jean Shipman, Director, Eccles Health Sciences Library.
committee member; judge,
01/19/2015 - 11/30/2015.
University service.
Honors & Awards
- Distinguished Scholar Award.
U of Utah, College of Humanities,
09/08/2022
- One semester teaching and service release to work on book.
Tanner Center Fellowship ,
12/09/2019
- International Travel Grant.
College of Humanities,
04/02/2019
- Environmental Humanities Professorship.
CoH Environmental Humanitities Program,
12/03/2018