CV

Beverly M. Weber, PhD

Assistant Professor of German
Associate Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies
Comparative Literature Graduate Program Faculty
Affiliate Faculty, Film Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory

Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
UCB 276
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder CO 80309-0276

beverly.weber@colorado.edu
http://beverlyweber.com

I. Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. May, 2006
  • Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. May, 2006
  • Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Winter 2002 – Summer 2003. DAAD Research Fellow.

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Fall 1996 – Spring 1999

  • M.A. in German: May, 1999
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature: May, 1998

Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 1995 – 1996

  • Fulbright/PAD Teaching Assistantship recipient

Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, 1990 – 1994

  • B.A., Spring 1994. Majors: German and English
  • Secondary teaching licensure in German and English: Fall 1994

Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Winter 1993

II. Research

Book Manuscript

“Violence and Gender in the ‘New Europe’: Islam in German Culture.” Under contract with Palgrave. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Series Editors: Eric D. Weitz & Jack Zipes.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • “From Sex Shacks to Mega-Brothels: The Politics of Anti-Trafficking and the 2006 Soccer World Cup.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. Forthcoming. With Kirsten Isgro and Maria Stehle.
  • “German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging.” German Studies Review 26.1 (2013). Forthcoming. With Maria Stehle.
  • “Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32.1(2012): 102 – 115.
  • “Work, Sex, and Socialism: Reading Beyond Cultural Hybridity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn.” German Life and Letters 63:1(2010): 37 – 53.
  • “Freedom from Violence, Freedom to Make the World: Muslim Women’s Memoirs, Gendered Violence, and Voices for Change in Germany.” Women in German Yearbook. Eds. Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Anne Simpson. Vol. 25. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 199-222.
  • “Beyond the Culture Trap: Teleopoeisis, Immigrant Women and New Subjectivities.” Women in German Yearbook. Vol. 21. Eds. Helga Kraft and Marjorie Gelus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 16 – 38.
  • “Cloth on Her Head, Constitution in Hand: Germany’s Headscarf Debates and the Cultural Politics of Difference.” German Politics and Society, 22.3 (2004): 33 – 63.
  • “A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf’s Kassandra Lectures as Feminist Anti-Poetics.” German Quarterly, 74.3 (2001): 259-279. Co-authored with Thomas Beebee.

Published Book Reviews

  • “Rethinking Islam and Masculinity in Germany.” Rev. of Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin, by Katherine Pratt Ewing. H-German, H-Net Reviews. February, 2010. Web. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29577
  • Rev. of Novels of Turkish German Settlement: Cosmopolite Fictions, by Tom Cheesman. Monatshefte 101.1 (2009) : 137 – 139. Print.
  • “Revealed by the Veil: Understanding France’s Headscarf Debates.” Rev. of The Politics of the Veil, by Joan Scott. H-German, H-Net Reviews. April, 2008. Web. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14464

Published Translation

  • Buddenbrooks – neue Blicke in ein altes Buch. Ed. Dr. Manfred Eickhölter. Lübeck: Thomas-und-Heinrich-Mann Zentrum, 2000. Translations from German to English of abstracts.
    Die Buddenbrooks – ein Jahrhundertroman. Ed. Dr. Manfred Eickhölter. Lübeck: Thomas-und-Heinrich-Mann Zentrum, 2000. Translations from German to English of exhibit texts.

Invited Speaker

  • “The Trouble with Faith: Rethinking Islam and Intersectionality in Europe.” Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. October 2011. Lecture.
  • “The Trouble with Faith: Rethinking Islam and Intersectionality in Europe.” University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. October 2011. Lecture.
  • “Headscarves: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany.” Research Seminar on Modern Germany and Central Europe. University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee. November 2009. Lecture.
  • “Gender, Orientalism, and Islam in Contemporary Germany.” German Studies. Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. 13 May 2009. Lecture.
  • “Images of Muslim Women in Contemporary Germany: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies, Teleopoeisis, and the Difficulties of Ethical Readings.” NEH Summer Institute, German and European Studies in the United States: Changing Worlds, Shifting Narratives. Smith College, Northampton, MA. 21 July 2005. Lecture.
  • “When the Subaltern Speaks German: Immigrant Women and New Subjectivities.” Freedom of Cultural Expression Symposium. University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 14 March 2005. Lecture and Panel Discussant.

Presentations

  • “Gender, Race, Religion? Rethinking Intersectionality.” 35th Annual Conference. German Studies Association. Louisville, Kentucky. September 2011. Conference Presentation.
  • “The Changing Role of Sexuality and Social Organization.” 35th Annual Conference. German Studies Association. Louisville, Kentucky. September 2011. Panel Commentary.
  • “Race, Intersectionality and WiG: Difficult Conversations.” Mission, Position, Identity: WiG and Intersectionality. 35th Annual Conference. Women in German. Augusta, Michigan. October 2010. Conference Presentation. With Sara Lennox.
  • “Outsiders on the Inside: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the ‘Other’ in Germany.” 34th Annual Conference. German Studies Association. Oakland, California. October 2010. Panel Commentary.
  • “Race, Authenticity, and Feridun Zaimoglu’s Leyla and Schwarze Jungfrauen.” 34th Annual Conference. German Studies Association. Oakland, California. October 2010. Conference Presentation.
  • “Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and the ‘New Europe.’” Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics and Contemporary Society. York University/University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. June 2010. Conference Presentation.
  • “The ‘Hijab-Martyr’ – Islamophobia and Public Space in Germany.” Global Studies on Gender and Sexuality. Women’s and Gender Studies. University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. 25th February 2010. Lecture (by invitation).
  • “Agency, Performance, and Public Space: The Politics of Race and Gender in German Media Discourses.” Research Seminar on Modern Germany and Central Europe. University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee. 16 November 2009. Lecture Response.
  • “Violence and Constructions of Secular Europe in Contemporary Literature.” Annual Meeting. American Comparative Literature Association. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 27 March 2009. Conference Presentation.
  • “A Post-Secular Europe? Secularism, Violence, and the Figure of the German Turk.” Constructing Nation: From Modernity to the New Millennium. Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Symposium, University of Colorado at Boulder. 13 March 2009. Conference Presentation.
  • “Whose Violence? ‘Post-Secular Europe’ and the Muslim Woman’s Body.” 33rd Annual Conference. Women in German. Snowbird Resort, Snowbird Utah. 24 October 2008. Conference Presentation.
  • “Claiming the Enlightenment: Immigrant Women and Human Rights in Germany.” Annual Conference. German Studies Association. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2008. Conference Presentation.
  • “Bridging the Activist-Theory Divide: Feminist & Anti-racist Organizing in Europe.” 32nd Annual Conference. Women in German. 2007. Conference Presentation. (with Maria Stehle)
  • “Work, Sex, and Socialism: Reading beyond Culture in the Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” Creolising Europe. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. September 2007. Conference Presentation.
  • “Responses to an(other) US-American Stunde Null: New York after September 11th in the Work of Sabine Scholl and Kathrin Röggla.” Nach der dritten “Stunde Null”: Deutsche Gegenwartsliteraturen, April 2007, Williamstown, MA. Conference Presentation.
  • “National Pastimes, Transnational Politics: German and EU Discourses on Anti-Trafficking and Prostitution and the 2006 World Cup.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, 2007. (with Kirsten Isgro and Maria Stehle) Conference Presentation.
  • “Beyond the Modernity/Islam Divide: Violence, Gender and Activism for Change.” German Studies Association, 2006. Conference Presentation.
  • “Teaching on Gender and Race in Contemporary Europe.” Roundtable. German Studies Association, 2006. Roundtable Discussant.
  • “Planetarity, Alterity, and the Death of a Discipline.” Women in German, 2004. Conference Presentation.
  • “Toward an Ethical Practice of Reading: Teleopoiesis and the Headscarf Debates.” Women in German, 2004. Conference Presentation.
  • “Germany’s Headscarf Debates: Implications of Feminist Transnational Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies Association, 2004. Conference Presentation.
  • “Cloth on the Head, Bedsheets in Hand: Constructing the Muslim Woman in Post-Wende Germany.” Modern Language Association, San Diego, 2003. Conference Presentation.
  • “Beyond the Headscarf? Problems of a German Transnational Cultural Studies.” German Studies im 21. Jahrhundert. Globale Tagung junger Forscher und Wissenschaftler. DAAD Konferenz der Zentren der Deutschland- und Europastudien. Berlin, 2003. Conference Presentation.
  • “Embodied Cosmopolitics: Reading Renan Demirkan.” Women in German, 2002. Conference Presentation.
  • “Imagining the Nation: Nation and Sexuality in Turkish German Literature.” Women’s Studies Lecture Series: Issues in Feminist Research and Methodologies. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Spring, 2001. Conference Presentation.
  • “(Dis)Locating Self: Mapping Berlin in Turkish-German Works.” Borderlands: Remapping Zones of Cultural Practice and Representation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2001. Conference Presentation.
  • “Of Woman and Nation: Nationality and Sexuality in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom goldenen Horn,” NEMLA 2001. Conference Presentation.
  • “In/Out/Trapped: Reading Anne Duden’s Übergang in the Shadow of the Wall,” PAMLA, 2000. Conference Presentation.
  • “Hybrid Identities: An Argument for the Interrogation of ‘Germanness,’” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 2000. Conference Presentation.
  • “Ich kann auch Schauspielerin sein: Intertextuality and the Creation of Female Subjectivity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutterzunge,” NEMLA, 1999. Conference Presentation.
  • “Towards a Feminist Literary History: Christa Wolf’s Rewriting of Ingeborg Bachmann.” Focus on Literatur, University of Cincinnati, 1997. Conference Presentation.

Chaired Panels and Conference Sessions

  • “Muslim Women in Fiction and Literature.” ACLA, 2009.
  • “Hito Steyerl.” Women in German, 2007 (with Maria Stehle).
  • “German Whiteness in a Global Context.” Women in German, 2005.
  • “Colonial Legacies.” New Directions in German Studies. Amherst, Massachusetts, 2004.
  • “Socialism and Its Others.” Marxism and the World Stage. Amherst, Massachusetts, 2003.
  • “The Politics of Dislocation.” Borderlands: Remapping Zones of Cultural Practice and Representation. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spring 2001.

III. Selected Teaching Positions

The University of Colorado at Boulder. August 2007 – present.

  • Assistant Professor of German, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures (GSLL)
  • Associate Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Comparative Literature Graduate Program Faculty
  • Affiliate Faculty in Film Studies
  • Affiliate Faculty in Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory

Courses Taught

  • Islam in Germany & Europe (Graduate; cross-listed with Comparative Literature)
  • Contemporary Issues in German Literature and Media (Graduate; cross-listed with Comparative Literature)
  • Bibliography and Methods of Research (Graduate)
  • Gender, Race, and Immigration in Germany and Europe (Upper Divison / Graduate; Core requirement: diversity; cross-listed with Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Literature)
  • Senior Seminar : Intellectuals and Public Debate in Contemporary Germany (Upper division; Taught in German)
  • Politics and Literature: Migration and Literature (Upper division; Taught in German)
  • German Film and Society after 1989 (Upper division; Cross-listed with Film Studies)
  • German Film and Society during the Cold War (Upper division; Cross-listed with Film Studies)
  • German Film and Society since 1945 (Upper division; Cross-listed with Film Studies)
  • Representing the Holocaust (Lower division; Cross-listed with Jewish Studies; Taught as large lecture course with discussion sections)
  • Contemporary German Literature (Lower division; Taught in German)
  • Germany Today (Lower division; Core requirement: contemporary societies)
  • Germany in an Integrating Europe (Upper division; taught in German)
  • Advanced German I & II (5th and 6th semester)

The University of Rochester, Modern Languages and Cultures. 2006-2007

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies; Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies

Courses Taught

  • From Gastarbeiterliteratur to Hip-Hop: Communities of Color and German Culture (Senior Seminar taught in German)
  • Gender, Race and Immigration in Contemporary Western Europe. (Upper level undergraduate/graduate course; Cross-listed with Comp Lit and Women’s Studies)
  • Introduction to German Literature, Fall 2006. (Upper level; taught in German)
  • Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends, Fall 2006. (Upper level undergraduate / graduate; Cross-listed with Comparative Literature)

University of Massachusetts Amherst. 1999-2006. Instructor

Comparative Literature

  • Good and Evil East/West. Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 2000 (30 students; General education requirements: Arts/Literature and Global Diversity)
  • International Short Story. Spring 2004, Summer 2000, Spring 2000 (30 students; General education requirements: Arts/Literature)
  • Utopia/Dystopia/Heterotopia: Spaces of the Cold War. Brave New Worlds, Spring 2001. (30 students; General Education Requirements: Arts/Literature)

Women’s Studies

  • Gender, Race and Immigration in Western Europe. Instructor, Fall 2005. (28 students; upper level course, fulfilled Women of Color requirement for Women’s Studies)
  • A Transdisciplinary Introduction to Women’s Studies. Co-Instructor and TA Supervisor, Spring, 2005.(300 students; general education requirements: Diversity (American); Interdisciplinary)
  • Honors Colloquium, A Transdisciplinary Introduction to Women’s Studies. Instructor, Spring, 2005.(6 students; counted towards requirements for honors program.)
  • A Transdisciplinary Introduction to Women’s Studies. Teaching Assistant, 2002 – 2006. (60 students; general education requirements: Diversity (American); Interdisciplinary)

Germanic Languages and Literatures

  • From Grimms to Disney. Teaching Assistant, Spring, 2006 (200 students; General education requirements: Arts/Literature)
  • Elementary German, Instructor, Fall 2001. (25 students)

Division of Continuing Education, Instructor

  • “Utopia/Dystopia/Heterotopia: Spaces of the Cold War.” Brave New Worlds, Fall 2001.
  • “Nations and Nationalisms in Contemporary Literature and Film.” Good and Evil, Fall 2000.
  • “Writing ‘Place’ in the 20th Century.” International Short Story, Summer 2000.

The University of California, Irvine. Winter Quarter, 2002.

  • Part time lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Romantic Fairy Tales.

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1997 – 1999

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

  • German 1, 2, and 3.
  • Student Coordinator, German 2, Spring 1998

Department of Distance Education

  • Instructor, German 1, 2, and 3, Summer 1997 to Summer 1999.

IV. Graduate and Honors Mentoring

PhD Committee Chair, Comparative Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Petra Landfester. “How Should A Body Move: Turkish-German Claims to Recognition in Architecture, Film and Literature.” In progress.

PhD Committee Member, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Susana Martinez-Guillem, Communication. “The Dialectics of Immigration, Race and Multiculturalism: Constructing Europeanness in the EU and Spain.” Defended May, 2012.

PhD Committee Outside Reader

  • Kira Thurman, History, University of Rochester. Discovering The Black Voice: Race, ‘High Art’ Music, and German Culture, 1850-1961. In progress.

MA Thesis Chair, German, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Marni Spott. “Racializing Islam: The Conceptualization of Race, Religion and Culture in Contemporary Germany?” 2012.
  • Katharina Carstens. “’Spielt weiter, spielt doch weiter!’ Phantasien als kindliche Auseinandersetzung mit traumatischen Erlebnissen am Beispiel von Ilse Aichingers Die größere Hoffnung.“ 2012.
  • Andrew Maurer. “The Once and Future Site of the US Embassy Berlin. A Discursive Analysis of Planning, Negotiation, and Reception.” 2011.
  • Damon Roberts. “The Politics of Comedy: The Stand-up Comedy of Serdar Somuncu.” 2010.
  • Emily Utzerath. “Visibility and Normalization of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Germany’s Public Sphere.” 2010.
  • Christina Herrmann. “The Iranian Dilemma of Displacement and Suspension in German Literature.” 2010.
  • Petra Watzke. “’Howgh, ich habe gesprochen!’ German Literary Representations of Native American Ritual and Religion.” 2009.

MA Exam Committee Chair, German, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Dillon Clayton, Derek Taylor, Stefanie Gibbs, Andrew Maurer, Damon Roberts, Emily Utzerath, Christina Herrmann, Stephanie Rapp, Petra Watzke, Anna Hunger, Otha Barrow, Katharina Carstens

MA Thesis Committee Member, German, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Alice Gates, Rebecca Allison, Anna Hunger, Anastasia Griffin

MA Thesis Committee Member, Comparative Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Erica Carley, Lacey Smith

MA Exam Committee Member, German, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Maureen Richards, Katharina Maes-Roopansingh, Rebecca Allison, Alice Gates, Anna Hunger, Anastasia Griffin, Erin Hollingsworth

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Supervision, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Lynnette Schweimler, International Affairs. “Human Rights Violations in Policies, Procedures, and Cases of Sexual Orientation Based Asylum Claims in Western Europe.” 2012.
  • Nathan Roberson, International Affairs. “Remaking French Public Policy: How Rethinking the Hijab Debate Brings Us Closer to Equality.” 2011.
  • Allison Gibbs, International Affairs. “The Bundeswehr in Afghanistan: A Test of Germany’s Strategic Culture.” 2010.

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee Member, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Humanities: Matthew Holmes
  • Film: S. Gilbert

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Supervision, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

  • Kate Humphrey Vander Kloot, Comparative Literature. “Freak Shows.” 2004.

V. Selected Additional Professional Experience

  • Remapping Black Germany. Conference Assistant Coordinator. U Mass, Amherst, April 2006.
  • NEH Summer Institute: German and European Studies in the United States: Changing Worlds, Shifting Narratives. Assistant Coordinator, Program in Germanic Languages and Literatures, U Mass, Amherst, Summer 2005.
  • Responsibilities for this intensive month long seminar for college faculty included: overall coordination, especially of the four Institute faculty; coordination of syllabus and readings; publicity for all public events; coordination of an affiliated public lecture series; assisting with the affiliated public film series; website maintenance.
  • Mentor, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2001.Responsible for developing a team taught course (“Migration and the Other”) and supervising an incoming TA.
  • Technology Consultant, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2000.
  • Web Consultant, ACLANet Web Page, Spring 2000.

VI. Languages

  • English (native speaker)
  • German (near native)
  • Spanish (advanced reading knowledge)
  • French (advanced reading knowledge)
  • Turkish (beginner knowledge)

VII. Additional Skills

  • Web development knowledge (WordPress; basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
  • Social Media Proficiency (Facebook, Twitter, Google+)

VIII. Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants

  • Nominee for Outstanding Graduate Student Faculty Mentor Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2012, 2010
  • Kayden Research Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008
  • Glennie M. Jones Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Feminist Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Graduate Research Fellowship, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 2002 – 2003
  • University Graduate Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001 – 2002
  • Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams, Completed with Distinction, March 2001
  • Graduate Research Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000
  • Penn State Teaching Award Nominee, 1998
  • Sparks Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996-1997
  • Fulbright/Pädagogischer Austauschdienst Grant, 1995-1996
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • Sigma Iota (International Language Honor Society)
  • Delta Phi Alpha (German Honor Society)

IX. Selected Service (Campus, Community, and Professional)

  • Gender and Women’s Studies Associate Faculty, 2011 to present
  • Comparative Literature Graduate Faculty, 2009 to present
  • GSLL Colloquium organization, 2009 to present
  • Intercambio de Comunidades, ESL Volunteer Teacher, 2010 to present
  • Assisted with Native Graduation, 2012
  • Guest faculty, Comparative Literature “Meet the Faculty” Coffee Hour, 2012
  • Workshop on writing conference abstracts and conference presentations, Comparative Literature, March 2010; October 2011
  • Departmental Liaison to German Chamber of Commerce, 2010 to present
  • Article editor, Sage Open, 2011
  • Focus group for selection of new Course Management System at CU, 2010
  • Comparative Literature Roundtable: Integrating Comparative Literature into Your Classroom and Career, October 2010
  • Revision of requirements for completion of secondary teaching licensure in German
  • Web editor, technology consultant to steering committee, for the organization Women in German, 2005 – 2009
  • Film Jury for German Senior Seminar, Fall 2009
  • Reappointment Committee for a Senior Instructor, Fall 2009
  • New Vistas High School, Boulder Colorado, “Youth Struggles” class (taught by Vanessa Dimiziani-Cascio), introduced and screened the film Urban Guerillas; led class discussion in following class, Spring 2009
  • Panel Moderator, AV Support, GSLL Symposium, Spring 2009
  • German Club advisor, CU Boulder, 2007 – 2009
  • Search Committee, advanced tenured faculty, CU Boulder, 2008-2009
  • Coordinator for visit of Angela Krauß, CU Boulder, Fall 2008
  • Committee for Proposal of German PhD, CU Boulder, 2007-2008; drafted curriculum requirements
  • German Film Series, CU Boulder, Fall 2007, Fall 2008
  • Coordinator for visit of Ika Hügel Marshall, University of Rochester, Spring 2007
  • Peer reviewer for German Quarterly, 2006.
  • Creation of the Internet Teaching Archive for the organization Women in German, 2003.
  • Organizer, Viewpoints: Turkish German Cinema film series, U Mass, Amherst, Spring 2004
  • Lecture series planning committee, Graduate Student Research in Women’s Studies, Spring 2004
  • Conference planning committee, New Directions in German Studies, Spring, 2004
  • Lecture series planning committee, Dialogues in European Studies, Spring 2002
  • Facilitator, “Culture Travels: Globalization, Migration, Citizenship and Culture.” Dialogues in European Studies, March 2002
  • Lecture series planning committee, Organization of Graduate Students of Comparative Literature (OGSCL) Presents: Dialogues in Cultural Studies, Fall 2001
  • Facilitator, “(De)Provincializing Europe: The Ethics of Cultural Studies.” OGSCL Presents, October 2001
  • Web Page Design and Maintenance, Organization of Graduate Students of Comparative Literature (OGSCL), 1999 – 2002
  • Facilitator, TA Web Training, Fall 2001
  • Newsletter Co-Editor, OGSCL, 1999 – 2001
  • Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Studies Committee, Graduate Certificate Program in Advanced Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Program, 2000 – 2001
  • M.A. Representative, Pennsylvania State University, 1997-1998.

X. Professional Affiliations

  • Modern Language Association
  • German Studies Association
  • Coalition of Women in German
  • National Women’s Studies Association
  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • American Association of Teachers of German