Rachel Halverson
School Director, Professor of German
Positions
Professor ,
School of Global Studies ,
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
School Director ,
School of Global Studies ,
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Affiliate Faculty ,
Film and Television Studies ,
Interdisciplinary Programs
Publications
presentations
invited talk
The Foreign Language Advantage: Navigating Cultures and Languages in the Global Economy ,
Co-organizer and Workshop Co-Leader,
WOWConference 2014
Understanding U.S. Academic Culture: An Intercultural Approach to Academic Culture in the United States ,
Fulbright Gateway Orientation 2014
Teaching Tips and Strategies ,
Panelist,
Association of Faculty Women 2012
Tips on Studying Abroad ,
Panelist,
International Professional Sharing Night 2012
Jugendkultur im Film: Vampire, Blut und das ewige Leben ,
One-day workshop,
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Lewis and Clark College, Portland 2011
Die Wende im Bild: Dramapadogogik und Bilderbucher ,
90-minute workshop,
AATG Fall Retreat 2010
Kinder, Kultur, Kreativitat: Bilderbucher im Unterricht ,
One-day workshop,
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Lewis and Clark College, Portland 2010
Meine Geschichte - Deine Geschichte: Schichten der deutschen Geschichte ,
Max Kade Vorlesungen 2010
Culture and Intercultural Learning in the German Language Classroom ,
Panelist,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2009
Intercultural Competence, Part Two: Socio-cultural/Socio-linguistic Approaches to Intercultural Learning ,
Chair,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2009
Selected Memories, Selective Memories: Navigating German Culture in the Twenty-First Century ,
Honors Invited Lecture, Washington State 2009
Directions and Examples for Culture Learning in the German Language Classroom ,
Panelist,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2008
Literatur und Landeskunde ,
One-day workshop,
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Lewis and Clark College, Portland 2008
Assessing Classroom Learning: Was DeutschlehrerInnen von den Physikern lernen konnen ,
Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture Fall Conference Workshop 2007
First-Timers, Would-Be Presenters, and Credit Seekers ,
Panelist,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2006
Auf dem Weg zur Erleuchtung: Feng Shui, Film, und Text ,
Half-day workshop,
German Immersion Week, University of Montana 2005
Fubball und Musik -- Olli Kahn von den Prinzen ,
One-hour workshop,
AATG Fall Retreat 2005
Berlin: Stadt, Bild, Text ,
One-day workshop,
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Lewis and Clark College, Portland 2004
Developing Cross-Course Learning Communities at Washington State University ,
Panelist,
Western Regional Honors Conference 2004
Kaffee, Kuchen, und Bach: Wie man mit Musik Geschichten lebending macht ,
Half-day workshop,
German Immersion Week, University of Montana 2003
Liebeslieder: gestern und heute oder Wie man Schuler/Studenten dazu bringt, sich klassische Musike anzuhoren ,
Half-day workshop,
German Immersion Week, University of Montana 2002
Music in the Foreign Language Classroom ,
One-hour workshop,
AATG Fall Retreat 2002
Teaching in the Humanities at a Non-Humanities Institution ,
Panelist,
Department of Germanics, University of Washington 1999
Writing Across the Curriculum-II ,
Panelist,
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 1999
Colloquium on the New German Literary Scene ,
Panelist,
Department of English and German, University of Washington 1998
Graduate Student Forum on the Job Market ,
Panelist,
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 1998
WWW Workshop ,
Day-long workshop,
Eastern Washington University 1998
Realia in Action: Berichy uber das Wiesneck Seminar ,
Invited,
Goethe-Institut Workshop 1993
The Meta-Historikerstreit: The Fiction Continues ,
Ohio State University Department of German 1990
Historiography and Fiction: The Historikerstreit ,
Department of German, University of Texas at Austin 1988
presentation
Two Birds with One Stone: Using Final Projects to Assess Course Learning Goals and Build Your Program ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2015
Vincent will Meer (2010) und Oh Boy! (2012): Film als Spechanlass und Techanlass ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2015
One Visionary Nun and a Wild and Crazy Author: Using Vision and Goethe! to Awaken the Past ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2014
Redefining Authorship in the Twenty-First Century: On Page, on Stage, and Online with Tobias Hulswitt ,
German Studies Association Conference 2014
Living in the Moment, Reflecting on the Past: Exploring Loss, Language, and Identity in Martina Hefter's Zuruck auf Los ,
German Studies Association Conference 2013
Okodidaktik: Wass kann ich tun? ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2013
Computer-Assisted Creative Writing: Two Authors and a Dozen Teaching Ideas ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2012
AATG Culture Taskforce: Resources and the Future of Intercultural Learning ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2011
Vampire, Blut und das ewige Leben: Jugendkultur in Wir sind die Nacht ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2011
Time, Technology, and Serial Monogamy: Narrators and Their Women in Tobias Hulswitt's Fiction ,
German Studies Association Conference 2010
Geschichte interkulturell: Leipzig als Standort der Wende ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2009
Komm in die Kirche und schau: Interkulturelles Lernen am Beispiel der Leipziger Montagdemonstrationen ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2009
Von Gomringer zu Goethe: Gedichte mal zwei ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2008
Constructing a Legacy: Hermann Kant's Abspann: Erinnerungen (1991) ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2007
Der ConcepTest: Was DeutschlehrerInnen von den Physikern lernen konnen ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2007
An Uncertain Future and a Cloudy Past: Narrative Strategies and Alltagskritik in Martina Hefter's Zuruck auf Los ,
German Studies Association Conference 2006
Arbeiten zu Sophie Scholl - die letzten Tage und begleitenden Texten ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2006
Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage - Aktives Lesen und Lernen ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2006
A Young German Author Hits the Multi-Media Road: Tobias Hulswitt's Saga ,
German Studies Association Conference 2004
Imagining the Unimaginable: Using Film to Teach Der geteilte Himmel ,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of German Conference 2004
Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe ,
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2004
Kaffee und Musik: Wie man den Lernenden die klassische Musik sub macht ,
Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference 2003
,So wie es aus dem Gedachtnis tritt' Commemorating a Life and a Century in Stefan Heym's Nachruf ,
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 2002
Coming of Age: Sexuality, Maturity, and Identity in Autobiographies by Gunter de Bruyn, Christoph Hein, and Stefan Heym ,
Modern Language Association Conference 2001
Living Berling: Autobiography and the City ,
German Studies Association Conference 2001
Fragments of the Past: Reconstituting an East German Childhood in Stephan Krawczyk's Das irdische Kind ,
German Studies Association Conference 2000
Gunter de Bruyn's Vierzig Jahre: Living with Undesired Division ,
German Studies Association Conference 1998
So What Really Happened on November 9, 1989: Fact, Fate and Fiction in Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir ,
American Association of Teachers of German Conference (AATG) 1997
Trummergeschichte: Rebuilding National Identity in Post-War History Classrooms 1945-1949 ,
German Studies Association Conference 1997
Ingo Hasselbach's Die Abrechnung: ein Neonazi steigt aus: An Epistolary Narration of Identity ,
German Studies Association Conference 1996
Wolfgang Hilbig's >>Ich<<: A Narrative Search for Identity ,
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 1996
Bringing Culture Alive: Using Lexis-Nexis to Integrate Cultural Issues Into an Introductory Reading Course ,
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 1995
Facts, Security, and Narrative Authority: The Intricacies of Herman Kant's Abspann (1991) ,
American Association of Teachers of German and the Internationaler Deutschlehrerverband 1995
Reconstructing the Life of a Fool: Marin Stade's Der Konig und sein Narr ,
International Conference on Narrative Literature 1994
A Life Remembered: Gunter de Bruyn's Zwischenbilanz ,
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 1993
Film in the Foreign Language Classroom: The Gateway to Literature and Culture ,
Pacific Northwest Foreign Language Council Conference 1993
Gunter de Bruyn's Markische Forschungen: History in Motion ,
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 1992
Historical Consciousness in Post-War Germany 1945-50: Understanding the Origins of Germany's National Identity ,
West Coast German Studies Conference 1992
Jurek Becker's Jakob der Lugner: Understanding History Through Narrative Structure ,
International Narrative Conference 1992
Historiography in Practice: Siegfried Lenz' Das Vorbild ,
Missouri Philological Association 1990
Confessions of Historical Consciousness: Siegfried Lenz' Deutschstunde ,
South Central Modern Language Association Convention 1988
Culture and Vocabulary Acquisition: A Proposal ,
Texas Foreign Language Association Conference 1984
Research
principal investigator on
Background
education and training
Ph.D.
in German Literature,
University of Texas at Austin
,
Dissertation: Historiography and Fiction: Siegfried Lenz and the 'Historikerstreit' 1989
M.A.
in German,
University of Texas at Austin
,
Thesis: Stefan Heym's "Das Wachsmuth-Syndrom": A Text-Linguistic Analysis; and A Re-Analysis of Gretchen's Role in Faust I 1985
B.A.
in German and International Relations,
Hamline University
,
summa cum laude, Departmental Honors 1983
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