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Ginny Lewis Assistant Professor of
German Teaching Duties Our German courses stress communication in all of its
modalities as the primary vehicle for developing useful and well-rounded
skills in German reading, writing and conversation. At the advanced levels, a
task-based approach informs my instruction. Our goal for students who
successfully complete NSU's German program is that they will feel comfortable
using German in many different contexts from dealing with the Internet to
conversing with native speakers, and that they will have a strong foundation
in all aspects of the language and culture. In addition, they will have
outstanding research techniques, an informed appreciation of German
humanistic and aesthetic accomplishments, and skills they can apply
professionally, in the worlds of business and communication, as well as
personally. Given the need for German teachers in schools throughout the
Midwest, graduating German majors who will prove expert and welcome classroom
instructors is a key goal of our program. German is a useful specialty that
can be applied in many areas ranging from commerce to non-profit work, as
well as lending itself to rewarding careers in teaching, translating,
interpreting, museum work, and publishing. I have taught German at the university level full-time since 1988. I have extensive experience teaching German literature from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century, and feel particularly at home in the area of my research, Realism and Naturalism. In addition, I have taught History of the German Language and Business German, and have developed and taught several courses dealing with Hungarian and East European Literature and the Holocaust. Throughout my teaching career, I have introduced hundreds of students to the basics of German, an endeavor that brings me great joy and reward. Research Current work: My research on Heimatliteratur has involved me in further study of the regional author Heinrich Sohnrey pictured above. You can find my entry on Sohnrey in the Literary Encyclopedia here: http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12218 The first 600 words of the article are available for viewing to non-subscribers, the full 2300-word text to subscribers only. My publications include: Globalizing the Peasant: Access to Land
and the Possibility of Self-Realization. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. “Land, Self and Nation in Rebreanu’s Ion: Commodification and the Dismantling of Meaning,” forthcoming in Slavonic and East European Review (projected publication April 2009) "Breaking Stone: Agency and Morality
in the Age of Commodification as Seen in Saar's Die Steinklopfer,"
in Ferdinand von Saar: Richtungen der Forschung / Directions in Research,
Gedenkschrift zum 100. Todestag, edited by Michael Böhringer (Vienna:
Praesens Verlag, 2006), 101-113. "Gottfried Keller's Critique of
Enclosures in 'Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe,'" in Neophilologus (2005)89:73-87. Jewish Life.Tales
From Nineteenth Century Europe,
by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, translated and with an afterword by Virginia L.
Lewis. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2002. "The Other
Face of Modernization: The Collapse of Rural Society in East Central European
Realism and Naturalism," in
Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum (1995)XXII:
221-245. "The Price
of Emancipation: Peasant-Noble Relations as Depicted by Novelists József
Eötvös and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach," in Hungarian Studies Review
(1993)XX: 3-23. "Work and
Freedom in the Minority Community: Ferdinand von Saar's Die Troglodytin," in The German Mosaic: Cultural and Linguistic
Diversity in Society, ed. Carol A. Blackshire-Belay (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993), 11-20. Flames of Passion, Flames of Greed: Acts of Arson in German Prose Fiction 1850-1900, New York: Peter Lang, 1991. Future projects
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