Brigitte Rossbacher
Associate Professor of German
(Ph.D., University of California, Davis)
Coordinator of the German Language Program and TA Supervisor
Office: 209 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 542-2458
E-mail: rossbach@uga.edu
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Photo © 2007 Danielle Hutlas
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Brigitte Rossbacher
coordinates the German language program and supervises the department's teaching assistants. She teaches our graduate seminar on the theory and practice of language teaching as well as language and literature courses at all levels. Dr. Rossbacher's research is in contemporary German literature, GDR studies, and language pedagogy. She is particularly interested in representations of memory, history and narrative in postwar and post-unification literature. Her publications include Illusions of Progress: Christa Wolf and the Critique of Science in GDR Women's Literature and articles on Monika Maron, Barbara Honigmann, Uwe Timm and F.C. Delius. She is also co-editor of Wendezeiten/Zeitenwenden: Positionsbestimmungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur 1945-1995 , and from 1994-2000 served as editor of the GDR Bulletin . In the area of language pedagogy, she has published on approaches to teaching the GDR after unification and on aspects of TA training. Her current interests in the area of language pedagogy are task design and the teaching of literature, film, and culture in language classes. She also enjoys serving as a faculty reader for the Advanced Placement German examination.
Courses:
- GRMN 3020 Language: Culture and Society II
- GRMN 3630 Memory, History, Narrative
- GRMN 3710 The Wall
- GRMN 7500 Teaching College German
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Recent Publications:
- AP German Curriculum Module: Umwelt Across the Curriculum. Online publication: AP Central. Forthcoming 2008.
- Textbook Ancillary: Online grammar, vocabulary and culture quizzes for all chapters (1-12) of Stationen: Ein Kursbuch für die Mittelstufe . Nicolas Euba and Prisca Augustyn. Boston : Heinle & Thomson, 2008.
- Review: Gedächtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromanen seit der Wende. Berlin : Erich Schmidt, 2005. The German Quarterly 80.3 (2007).
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Current Projects:
My current projects include articles on memory and auto/biography in Barbara Honigmann's Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben and the significance of place and travel in the works of Monika Maron . The later article is based on a paper entitled " Mapping Identity in Monika Maron ' s Berlin and Beyond".I presented at the 2008 Women in German conference.
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