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Hallo, my name is Marcel Rotter and I am an Associate Professor of German at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA.
Vita
1. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – TEACHING
since 2009 Associate Professor of German
University of Mary Washington, Department of Modern Foreign Languages
2004-2009 Assistant Professor of German
University of Mary Washington, Department of Modern Foreign Languages
1998 – 2003 Lecturer, Tutor, Teaching Assistant, Instructor for German as a Second Language
University of Wisconsin, Department of German, Extension Services, Athletic Department
1991-1997 Instructor for German as a Second Language
Eurozentrum Köln, Germany; Weimar, Germany; Wien, Austria
1994 – 1995 Instructor for German as a Second Language
Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprachschule, Köln, Germany
1992 – 1994 Instructor for German as a Second Language
Universität zu Köln, Germany
1991 Instructor for German as a Second Language
Inlingua Köln, Germany
1985 – 1989 Teacher for German and Russian
22. Oberschule Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – TEACHING SUPERVISION
September – December 2002
January – May 1999 Head Teaching Assistant for 4th semester German
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of German
July/August 1997 Director of the Summer Language School
Eurozentrum Wien, Austria
July – August 1996 Director of the Summer Language School
Eurozentrum Weimar, Germany
March – June 1996 Director of semester abroad program in Germany
University of Chicago/Eurozentrum Weimar
March – June 1995 Director of semester abroad program in Germany
University of Chicago/Eurozentrum Weimar
3. EDUCATION
1997-2004 Doctoral program in the Department of German
University of Wisconsin-Madison
January – July 1988 Exchange program for Russian language teachers
Lomonosov-University, Moscow, Russia
September 1981 – July 1985 Masters program in German and Russian Pedagogy. Masters thesis “Rezeptionsmodelle der Weltliteratur im Gedicht von Eduardas Mieželaites.” Advisor: Georg Ristow.
Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, Germany
4. PUBLICATIONS
Fall 2007 „When Money Goes to War: Functions of War Bond Posters during World War I” in: Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, 16 (2007), pp. 69-109.
Summer 2007 Book review „Seelenarbeit an Deutschland – Martin Walser in Perspective” in: Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (98:4), 2007, pp. 252-255.
Winter 2006 Book review „Germany’s Two Unifications. Anticipations, Experiences, Responses.” in: Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (98:3), 2007, pp. 638-640.
Spring 2006 Book review „What History Tells” in: Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (98:3), 2006, pp. 460-61.
Spring 2005
Book review: “Kürschners Literaturkalender” in: Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (97:3), 2003, pp. 526-8.
Fall 2003 Book review: “Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker” in: Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (95:4), 2003, pp. 706-8.
2003 “When Money Goes to War… Differences in the Communicative Strategies of the Allied and the Central Powers in World War I War Bond Posters” http://www.unomaha.edu/esc
2001 “Waiting for Goethe” – Jewish Goethe Biographies from Geiger to Gundolf. (Co-author and presenter) in:
Goethe in German-Jewish Culture. edited by Klaus L. Berghahn and Jost Hermand. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2001, pp. 84-103.
1985 “Rezeptionsmodelle der deutschen Klassik im Gedicht von Eduardas Mieželaites”
in: 21. Literaturkonferenz des Bezirkes Erfurt. Erfurt: Verlag der Pädagogischen Hochschule , 1985.
1984 “Gedanken beim Lesen eines Buches: ‘Die Fichte, die gelacht hat’ von Justinas Marcinkevičius”
in: 20. Literaturkonferenz des Bezirkes Erfurt. Erfurt: Verlag der Pädagogischen Hochschule , 1984.
5. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
April 28, 2007 Werbung im Unterricht – Learning German through Advertisements
University of Virginia Spring Workshop, Charlottesville, VA
April 14, 2007 “A Business Language Certificate: Constructing a Multidisciplinary Curriculum”
2007 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL), New York, NY
November 21, 2006 “A Short History of Propaganda”
Guest Lecture in Professor Al-Tikriti’s two sections of the Western Civilization II course
November 11, 2006 “Die fünf neuen Bundesländer heute”
Immersion Weekend for German teachers, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
May 17, 2006 “State of the Art: The First Year of ARTstor at UMW” (Panelist)
11th Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
May 16, 2006 “One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Incorporation of Electronic Images in the Foreign Language Classroom”
11th Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
May 16, 2006 “A Conversation on Blogging at UMW” (Panelist)
11th Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
April 5 “Toward a Business Language Certificate: Constructing a Multidisciplinary Curriculum at a Small Liberal Arts Institution”
2006 CIBER Business Language Conference, Atlanta, GA
March 25, 2006 “German Hip-Hop in Class”
University of Virginia Spring Workshop, Charlottesville, VA
March 25, 2006 “Die DDR und die neuen Bundesländer im Unterricht”
University of Virginia Spring Workshop, Charlottesville, VA
March 21, 2006 “A Short History of Propaganda”
Guest Lecture in Professor Al-Tikriti’s section of the Western Civilization II course
March 10, 2006 “Look Who is Talking – Electronic Visual Aids for the German Classroom”
Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic & South-East Associations of Language Learning and Technology (MAALLT & SEALLT), Charleston , SC
February 23, 2006 Open Classroom Presentation “Black Images – Historical and Modern Views of Africans in Germany”
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
October 15, 2005 “Mit Bits and Bytes zum großen Preis?”
Annual Convention of FLAVA, Richmond, VA
September 23, 2005 Panel moderator at the 38th Wisconsin Workshop “Writing [in] Images / In Bildern schreiben”
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
May 10, 2005 Poster Presentation at the 10th Faculty Academy “Me Talk Pretty German One Day”
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
July 1, 2004 “When Money Goes to War… Differences in the Communicative Strategies of the Allied and the Central Powers in World War I War Bond Posters”
Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, WI
May 10, 2002 “Holocaust and Humanities in the Electronic Media – New approaches to memory culture”
Workshop “Holocaust and Humanities in the 21st Century”; University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 14, 2002 “Speaking Walls – The Poster and the German Metropolis.”
Annual Craft-Critique-Culture Conference;
University of Iowa-Iowa City
December 2, 1999 “Alle Erinnerung ist Gegenwart – The Presence and Suppression of Memory in the ‘Was bleibt’ and the Walser-Bubis debates”
Graduate Student Workshop: The Unification Effect — The Berlin Republic Ten Years After, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
March 20 1999 “Gesinnungsästhetik? Literary debates as substitutes of political discourse”
German Department Graduate Student Conference, University of Wisconsin
March 12-14 1999 “Gesinnungsästhetik? Literary debates as substitutes of political discourse”
Graduate Student Conference: Gegenstand– Polemic Positions. Forms of Objections, Columbia University, New York City
December 1997 “Student demographics and curricular beliefs in second-year college language teaching”
Roundtable lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
6. MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Modern Language Association of America
- American Association of Teachers of German – AATG (President of the Virginia chapter)
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages – ACTFL
- Foreign Language Association of Virginia – FLAVA
- Popular Culture Association – PCA