Department of German and Russian Studies
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Faculty | Fischer

Monika Fischer

Monika Fischer

Monika Fischer
Monika Fischer at The Gates
by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Central Park, New York City

Assistant Teaching Professor of German
Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 1997
MSEd in Higher Education Administration, Baruch College CUNY, 2006
Office: 435B Strickland Hall
Phone: 573-882-5252
Email: fischerm@missouri.edu

Research and Administration

My current research interests are in the contribution of travel writing, minority writing and exile writing to German thought and aesthetic practice after 1800, as well as digital culture, and hybrid teaching models. I am currently researching advanced technologies in language learning and am the coordinator of the German language program and Teaching Assistants. I have taught courses in German language, literature, European Studies, German cinema and digital culture.

My administrative experience includes serving as Deputy Director for Deutsches Haus at New York University and as Director of the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik in Oregon.

Awards

  • DAAD Research Grant, Washington University, 2007
  • NEH Seminar, Stanford University, 2007
  • DAAD Research Grant, Humboldt Universität Berlin, 2006
  • Max Kade Foundation, Grant to the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, 1999-2002
  • Goethe Institute, Grant to the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, 1999-2002
  • Jane Grant Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Univ. of Oregon, 1995-1996
  • Humanities Center Research Fellowship, University of Oregon, 1995-1996
  • Sasakawa Foundation, International Trade and Development Fellowship, 1994-1995

Teaching

Some of the courses taught at the University of Missouri:

  • German 1100: Beginning German Language
  • German 2100: Advanced German Language
  • German 3130: Introduction to Literature
  • German 4070: German for Reading Knowledge
  • German 4660: Recent German Literature
  • German 8087: German Novella of the 19th Century
  • German 7730: German Internship and Methods

Publications

"Hybrid or Blended Teaching" Unterrichtspraxis (under submission)

"Travel writing and Parrhesia: the case of Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart." TRANS-Studien zur Veränderung der Welt. Ed. Herbert Arlt. Band 6. 2006

"German for Beginners" online course, CDIS, University of Missouri (May 2006)

"Das Weite Suchen: Unterwegs in Wolfgang Hildesheimers Prosa. By Christine Chiado" German Quarterly 78.2 (2005)

"Turkish Culture in German Society Today. By David Horrocks and Eva Kolinsky, eds." German Quarterly 71.2 (1998)

"Exil und Engagement. By Michael Braun." German Quarterly 70.1 (1997)

"Finding a Voice. By Marilya Veteto-Conrad." German Quarterly 70.4 (1997)

"Hilde Domin: A Poet in Exile." in Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries, eds. Elizabeth Ametsbichler and Elke Frederiksen, Greenwood Press, 1995

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