• 2017
  Academic Regional Director of Lauder Europe Summer Immersion Program, University of Pennsylvania
• February 2015
  University of Pennsylvania Representative, Selection Committee for the 2015 DAAD   Guest professorship, Bonn, Germany
• Fall 2013 – 2019
  Representative of the Lecturers, University Council, University of Pennsylvania
• 2012 – present
  Member, Online Learning Faculty Advisory Committee, Penn Language Center, University of Pennsylvania
• 2012 – 2013
  LAC language assessment working group on behalf of Dean Jeff Kallberg
• 2009 – present
  Language Advisory Committee to the Dean, University of Pennsylvania
• 2006 – present
  Consultant, Ernst-Reuter Gesellschaft, GmbH., Freie Universität Berlin
• 2007 – 2009
  Director, German Language Program, FUBiS
• 2005 – 2009
  Principal, Immanuel German School, Philadelphia
• 2004 – 2006
  President, AATG Philadelphia, Vicinity and Delaware

• 1993 - 2000
  University of California at Davis
  Ph.D., German with Designated Emphases in Feminist Theory and Research and in Second Language Acquisition, University of California, Davis. March 2002.

• 1991 - 1993
  University of California, Davis
  B.A., German with Honors.

• 1999 - 1990
  College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
  A.A. with Honors, Major in Psychology.

University of Pennsylvania

• 2013 – present
  Inaugural Executive Director of Language Instruction
• 2011 – present
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Education, GSE
• 2009 – present
  Academic Director and Chair of Penn Language Center
• 2008 – 2011
  Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education
• 2005 – present
  Senior Lecturer in Foreign Language and Director of Language Instruction
• 2000 – 2005
  Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Language Program Coordinator

Academic Honors:

• 2017 AATG Outstanding German Educator Award
• 2017 ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education
• 2010 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty

• Nominee, Dean's Award for Distinguished Teach
• ing, 2002/2003, University of Pennsylvania
• Transatlantisches interkulturelles Nachwuchsförderungsprogramm Deutsch als Fremdsprache (TraiNDaF), 2001-2002
• Professors for the Future Honors Program, University of California at Davis, 1999-2000
• University of California at Davis Fellowship 1998-99  
• Consortium for Women and Research Graduate Research Award, UCDavis, 1998
• Kaplan Award for Excellence in Student Teamwork 1997
• Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Students 1997
• Emilyn Louise Vaage Scholarship 1992-1993

Grants

• SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
• SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
• Consortium Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2004
• Venture Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2001-present
• Consortium Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2001
• Teaching Resource Center Travel Grant, University of California at Davis, 1999
• Special Undergraduate Instruction Improvement Grant 1998
• Departmental Travel Stipend 1998
• Graduate Studies Travel Award 1997
• Special Undergraduate Instruction Improvement Grant 1995

Work in Progress

Augenblicke: German through Film, Media, and Texts, co-author Bridget Swanson, University of Vermont and Glenn Levine, University of California, Irvine. [485 pp., fully integrated online platform, and ancillary materials] under review with Klett Verlag.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Teaching Perspectives: Intercultural Development at All Levels” with co-authors Deborah Page and Margaret Strair in The Language Educator, Jan/Feb 2018, pp. 44 – 48.

• “Implication of the AP World Language Curriculum for University Language Programs” with co-authors Bridget Swanson, Glenn S. Levine, and Heather Willis Allen in The Interconnected Language Classroom: Critical Transitions and Interfaces in Articulated K-16 Contexts, Eds. Johanna Watzinger-Tharp and Per Urlaub. AAUSC Vol. 17, 2016, pp. 99 – 117.

• Co-Constructing Learning: The Dynamic Nature of Foreign Language Pedagogy in a CMC Environment, CALICO Special Topics Edition, Volume 22, Number 3, 2005, 657-678.
• CD-ROM for textbook Deutsch Na Klar! 4/e. McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN 0-07-249253-8
• CD-ROM for testing bank Fokus Deutsch, McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN 0-07-236912-4.
• CD-ROM for textbook Deutsch Na Klar! 3/e, McGraw-Hill, 1999. ISBN 0-07-236252-9.
• "Minds, Bodies and Memories: The mind/body split in Christa Wolf's Kassandra." Focus on Literatur, University of Cincinnati, Volume 6, I, Spring 1999, 1-15.

Publications

• Homo.Cyber Project, University of Pennsylvania: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/215/
• "Using Instructional Technology to Facilitate Active Learning." University of Pennsylvania Almanac, Volume 50 Number 22, 2004, 8.

Reviews

• Literatur, Lehren, Lernen: Hochschuldidaktik und germanistische Literaturwissenschaft. Susanne Hochreiter, Ursula Klingenböck (Hg.) Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2007, 124-126.
• Rafik Schami, Milad: Von einem, der auszog, um einundzwanzig Tage satt zu werden. Focus on Literatur, University of Cincinnati, Volume 6, I, Spring 1999, 78-79.
• The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg’s Meditation, by
• Kathleen Foley-Beining, Women in German Newsletter, Spring 1999, Number 78, 22-23.
• Grimmelshausen the Storyteller. A Study of the Simplician Novels, by Alan Menhennet,
• German Studies Review, Volume XXII, Number 1, February 1999, 111-112.

Work in Progress

• “Articulation in Action” Neues Curriculum, Journal for Best Practices in Higher Education German Studies (submitted for publication Spring 2009).
• “Leben im Dazwischen: Teaching Contemporary German Authors.” In preparation for Die Unterrichtspraxis.
• „Curricular design based on a computer learner corpus.” In preparation for the on-line journal Language, Learning, and Technology.