Publikationen
Books and Editorships
2013 Angst bei Arthur Schnitzler und Christa Wolf aus der Perspektive der Psychologie, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
2013 Auf dem Weg in die Moderne: Deutsche und Österreichische Literatur und Kultur, ed. with Roswitha Burwick and Lorely French, München: de Gruyter.
2008 New German Review. 2008/Vol 23, ed. with Andre Schütze.
Articles and Chapters
2019 From the multilingual to the intercultural in the current German political, academic and pedagogical discourse. In Journal of Multicultural Discourses Special Issue: Intercultural Multilateralities: pluri-dialogic imaginations, global-ethical positions and epistemological ecologies. 14/1, 2019, p. 61-77. (peer-reviewed)
2019 A Multilingual Turn in German Studies: Premises, Provisos, and Prospects. With the Eaton Group. In Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. 52/1, 2019, p. 14-31. (peer-reviewed)
2019 (accepted, in print November 2019) Intercultural Competence for Global German Studies - A Pedagogical Conversation. With Nicole Coleman. In Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. Best Practices in German Study Abroad programs and in University-wide intercultural education. Special Issue. (peer-reviewed)
2019 (accepted, in print November 2019) Auf Diversität mit Diversität antworten. Methodologische Herausforderungen der Lehre von Interkulturellen Kompetenz. In Methoden in der Hochschullehre. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus der Praxis. Ed. by Jörg Noller et al. Berlin: Springer.
2019 (accepted, in print December 2019) Intercultural Competence in the Work of the Council of Europe. In Interkulturelle Kompetenz. Kritische Perspektiven. Ed. by Alois Moosmüller. München, Waxmann.
2019 (accepted, print publication imminent) “Die ängstliche Margarete” - Anxiety in Christa Wolf's City of Angels Or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud. In Patricia Herminghouse and Gerald Fetz (Eds.), What Remains: Essays on the Legacy of Christa Wolf. Berghahn House/Spektrum.
2018 Emotional Intelligence and Intercultural Competence: Theoretical Questions and Pedagogical Possibilities. With Irina Golubeva. Intercultural Communication Education, 2018(1-2), 54-63. (peer-reviewed)
2018 Zertifikatprogramme in und für interkultureller Kommunikation in Deutschland. Das Intercultural Communication Certificate an der LMU-München. Europäische Erziehung, 2018(1), 12-16. (peer-reviewed)
2017 Preparing Professionals for Working in Multicultural and Democratic Europe: Two Pedagogical Programs – Their Assessment and Collaborations. With Irina Golubeva. In Pedagogika 2017(1), 39-54. (peer-reviewed)
2017 “When does the prewar start?” Intercultural Education as Conflict Prevention. In M-F. Mailhos, I. Golubeva. (Eds.) Education for European Literacy, Democratic Citizenship and Intercultural Understanding. Veszprém: Tanárok Európai Egyesülete, 5-16.
2016 Facing the Need to Become Intercultural in a Conflicted Europe: A Model for an Intercultural Certificate Program, with Irina Golubeva. In La Educación Importa. Jornadas de Divulgación y Difusion Innovadoras (D2+1), UCOPress - Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 65-75.
2013 “Habe die Ehre” – Schnitzlers Novellen Leutnant Gustl und Die Toten schweigen alla Schopenhauer. In R. Burwick, L. French and I. Guntersdorfer (Eds.), Auf dem Weg in die Moderne: Deutsche und Österreichische Literatur und Kultur. München: de Gruyter, 101-121.
Editorships of Journals
o New German Review, Journal for German Literature and Culture theory
- Executive Editor, 2006-2010.
o Das Fenster, Journal for US-German Cultural Exchange - Co-Director 2003-2005.
Key-Note Speeches
o “When does the prewar start?” - Intercultural Communication Programs for Educating the Youth in Europe.” International ELICIT+ Conference at the Council of Europe, Budapest, Hungary, 2017.
o Certificate Intercultural Communication as an Example for Interculturalism in Germany. National Forum of Young Leaders in Education. Tyumen, Russia, 2016.
Conference Talks
2019 American Association for Teaching Foreign Langauges (ACTFL), Washington, DC, USA
(abstract accepted, scheduled in November) Teaching and Researching the Empathy Component in Intercultural Competence
2019 International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), Shanghai, China
Empathy and Intercultural Competence in Higher Education
2019 Hochschulverband für Interkulturelle Studien (IKS), Kochel, Germany
Das „Intercultural Communication Certificate“ an der LMU München: Status Quo und Quo Vadis
2019 Evaluate - Virtual Exchange in the 21. Century, Lèon, Spain
Research on Empathy in Virtual Intercultural Exchange
2019 Educating the Global Citizen, LMU-München, Germany
Teaching Empathy and Intercultural Competence in collaborative Programs
2018 German Studies Association (GSA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The Global Turn in German Studies. Educational Practices on Global and Democratic Citizenship
2018 Interkulturelle Kompetenz - Kritische Perspektiven, LMU-München Interkulturelle Kompetenz und europäische Bildungspolitik
2017 Symposium “Studierendenzentrierte Hochschullehre”, LMU-München
Auf Diversität mit Diversität antworten
2017 Intercultural Horizons, Rijeka, Croatia
Intercultural Competence and Global Competence East and West – Certificate Programs in Intercultural Communication in the USA, Germany, and Hungary
2016 Año Internacional del Entendimiento Mundial, Cordoba, Spain
Facing the Need to Become Intercultural in a Conflicted Europe: A Model for an Intercultural Certificate Program
2016 National Forum of Young Leaders in Education, Tyumen, Russia
Certificate Intercultural Communication as an Example for Interculturalism in Germany
2016 European Association for International Education (EAIE), Liverpool, UK
Facing the Urgent Need in Intercultural Competency – Current Programs at German Universities: Example LMU-Munich
2016 German Studies Association (GSA), San Diego, CA, USA
Where “Multiculturalism” is not Enough - Multilingualism in the Context of Intercultural Communication in Current German Higher Education
2015 Kultur aus interdisziplinärer Sicht, University Mainz, Germany
Kulturelle Identität und die Messung von Interkulturalität
2015 Association American Study Abroad Programs in Germany, Munich, Germany
Interkulturelle Kompetenz durch Study Abroad: Wunsch und Wirklichkeit
2014 International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Porto, Portugal
The Present and the Future of Interdisciplinary Studies – The example of Cognitive Literary Studies
2013 German Studies Association (GSA), Denver, CO, USA
Cognitive literary studies and the literary text. An explicative analysis of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Sterben” with the tools of cognitive psychology
2012 International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Nicosia, Cyprus
Digital Humanities, HyperCities for teaching a study abroad class
2012 German Studies Association (GSA), Milwaukee, WI, USA
Intercultural “Angst” and Blame: Cassandra and the “ängstliche Margarete,” Christa Wolfs “Stadt der Engel” through Cognitive Psychology
2012 European Conference "Reinventing the European Experience: ”Culture, Politics and Diversity in U.S. Education Abroad", Dublin, Ireland
HyperCities for Study Abroad? Pro and Contra
2011 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, USA
Historizität der Gesellschaftsdifferenzen der Angst? Weibliche und männliche Angst in Arthur Schnitzlers Fräulein Else und Christa Wolfs Kassandra
2010 North-Eastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Denial and Ambivalence of the Self in Julia Schoch’s Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers and Antje Rávic Strubel’s Tupolew 134
2009 UCLA Teaching Assistant Conference
Shock lesson for incoming teaching assistants
2009 UCLA Teaching Assistant Conference
Panel on Intercultural Education
2008 Pacific Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Claremont, CA, USA
Copingmechanismen in Arthur Schnitzlers Novelle Sterben
2008 32nd Colloquium on Literature and Film, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
“Revisiting the Past in Contemporary Literature and Film”
“‘Tupolew 134 ist keine Erinnerungsarbeit’”: German women writers between Restoration and Recreation of the Past – Revisiting Childhood in the GDR
2007 Midwestern Modern Languages Association (MMLA), Cleveland, OH, USA
Blick in die Realität der DDR-Vergangenheit bei der neuen Generation der Autorinnen Jana Hensel und Antje Rávic Strubel
2007 Pacific Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Bellingham, OR, USA
Erlernte Hilflosigkeit und Ausbruchsversuche in Elfriede Jelineks Die Klavierspielerin