Faculty and Staff
Gisela Hoecherl-Alden
Associate Professor of German
Director, New England Universities Study Abroad Consortium
Co-Director, Project Opportunity, Title III Teacher Training Grant
274 Little Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
Ph: 207-581-2081
Fax: 207-581-1832
Office hours: MWF 10:00-10:50 and by appointment
Cooperating Faculty Appointments:
College of Education and Human Development
Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center
School of Policy and International Affairs
Degrees:
Ph.D., German, “summa cum laude”, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.Ed., Cross-Cultural Communication, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Staatsexamen I (MA) & II (MAT), Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, München
Research Areas and Publications:
Transnationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship in film and television
Intellectuals, writers and film makers in the Weimar Republic
History of Germanics in the United States
Intercultural communication in the language classroom
Teaching literature to language learners
Second language writing
Community and place-based pedagogies
Greening the language and literature curriculum for ecological sustainability
Citizenship, language and cultural Policies
Selected Awards and Honors:
National Friend of German Award for Service to the Profession, American Association of Teachers of German (2008)
President, American Association of Teachers of German,
Maine Chapter (2007-09)
Delta Phi Alpha, National German Honor Society (2006)
Outstanding Mentoring and Teaching Award, Senior Skulls Honor Society (2005)
Faculty Honor Roll for Mentoring and Teaching, University of Pittsburgh
(2000)
Teaching Excellence Award, Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers (1993)
Fulbright Scholarship (1986)
Courses taught at the University of Maine (Graduate and Undergraduate)
German Film
(GER 420/GER 598)
Advanced Structures of German (GER 422)
German Literature 1900-1945 (GER 413)
Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture (GER 409)
Major Cultural Periods 800-1785 (GER 401)
German for the Professions (GER 307)
Readings in German Literature: Introduction to L2 Reading (GER 306)
Practical German (GER 305)
Intermediate German I, II (GER 203, GER 204)
Elementary German I, II (GER 101, GER 102)
Courses taught in English:
Multiculturalism and Education (ELL 491/MLC 598)
Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language (ELL 470/MLC 598)
Teaching Literature in the K-12 Language Curriculum (MLC 467/598)
Teaching Modern Languages (MLC 466/598)
World Cinema (MLC 421)
Indo-European Folktales
(MLC 276)
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail Prof. Gisela Hoecherl-Alden at:
Gisela_Hoecherl_AldenATumit[dot]maine[dot]edu
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