Business German (GERM 334)
Christian Perspectives on War (GERM 437)
Contemporary German Culture: Institutions and Mores (GERM 334; quad and full-semester versions)
German Cinema (GERM 437; quad and full-semester versions)
German for Reading Knowledge (GERM 334)
German Politics and Policy (GERM 437)
Masterpieces of German Literature 1850-Present (GERM 345)
Practicum (GERM 490; Wheaton in Germany program)
Franz Kafka (GERM 437)

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)

College Media Advisers, Inc. (CMA)

Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

North American Christian Foreign Language Association (NACFLA)

Society for German-American Studies (SGAS)

German Film (current, DEFA, and Weimar era)

Cinema and History

Contemporary German Politics and Church-State Relations

Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Religious and Cultural Critique

Curricular Innovation in German Studies

Günter Grass

Scholarly and Pedagogical Publications:

“In loco parentis: Narrating Control and Rebellion in Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß,” Modern Austrian Literature. 35:3/4 (2002): 27-51.

“Exclusive Inclusiveness: A Critique of the First-Year German Text Kontakte.” Language in God’s World (Nottingham, UK). 18 (March, 1998): 25-31.

[co-author] Instructor’s Resource Manual for Spektrum. Grammatik im Kontext. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. 196p.

[co-author] Test Bank for Spektrum. Grammatik im Kontext. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. 65p.

“Ernst von Houwald.” German Writers in the Age of Goethe, 1789-1832, ed. James Hardin and Christoph E. Schweitzer. Dictionary of Literary Biography 90. Detroit: Gale, 1989. 183-187.

Articles in Progress:

“Enlightening Asia: Matthias Claudius as Christian Orientalist,” Wheaton College Faith and Learning Paper being revised for submission to Christian Scholar’s Review

“‘Sliding silently toward oblivion’? Enrollment Crises, Disciplinary Self-Preservation, and Christian Witness,” an analysis of the status of German studies programs in the U.S. being prepared for submission to the Journal of Christianity and Foreign Language

“Fringe Elements: The Presentation of Religious and Ethnic Others in Introductory German Texts,” article being prepared for submission to Die Unterrichtspraxis.

Invited Lecture:

“Behind the Scenes of the Past: Reading History Through German Film,” presentation for Calvin College students, faculty, and community, October 10, 2002.

Presentations:

“‘Und ich begehre, nicht schuld daran zu sein’: Matthias Claudius, Günter Grass, and German Opposition to the Iraq War,” paper accepted for the 2004 conference of the North American Christian Foreign Language Association (NACFLA), Northwestern College (Iowa), March 25-27, 2004

“The Punishment of Time: Returning to the Wende in Recent German Film,” paper accepted for a special panel on “Memory and History in Film” for the 2004 conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. (Panel was not approved by conference program committee.)

“Women, Men, and the Words From the Cross: Gender and Acts of Reading in 17th Century Crucifixion Poetry,” paper presented at the 2003 NACFLA conference, Azusa Pacific University, April 4-5, 2003. Being revised for submission to Christianity and Literature.

“Fast-Forwarding Through Time: History and the Design of a Film Course,” paper presented at the 2002 NACFLA conference, Messiah College, April 5-6, 2002.

“Light from the East: The Orientalism(s) of Matthias Claudius,” paper presented at the special conference-wide session on Orientalism at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 27-29, 2000.

“Multiple-Choice Meetings and the Ethics of the Personal Encounter in Lola rennt,” paper presented at the 2000 NACFLA conference, Point Loma Nazarene University, April 6-8, 2000.

“Little Men meet Goethe & Co.: Germanica in the World of Louisa May Alcott,” paper presented at the 23rd German-American Studies Symposium, New Ulm, Minnesota, April 23-24, 1999.

“Dead Letter/Living Word: Matthias Claudius and the (Dis)Enchantment of Language in the Late German Enlightenment,” paper presented at the 1998 Midwest Christianity and Literature Conference, Taylor University, April, 1998.

“The Clothing of Salvation: Uniforms, Identity, and Authority in F.W. Murnau’s Der letzte Mann and Helmut Käutner’s Der Hauptmann von Köpenick,” paper presented at the 1998 NACFLA conference, Eastern College, April, 1998. Will be revised for submission to Cinema Journal.

“Searching for Points of Kontakte,” panel presentation at the 1997 NACFLA conference, Calvin College, April, 1997.

“The Execution of Narration in Kafka’s ‘Prometheus,’” paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 1994.

“The Written Word as Prop and Proxy in Schiller’s Wallenstein,” paper presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April, 1992.

Collaborative Research Project:

Coordinated student-conducted interviews and focus group research on socio-political opinions among German evangelicals as part of a German 495 course during the 2003 Wheaton in Germany program. Project outcome: “Between Two Worlds: The German Evangelical Response to Domestic Sociopolitical Issues,” student paper (four presenters) accepted for the 2004 conference of the North American Christian Foreign Language Association (NACFLA), Northwestern College (Iowa), March 25-27, 2004.