Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Margaret Gonglewski , Associate Professor of German
Coordinator of German Language
Office: PHIL 509C, 994-5727
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 001.12, GER 003.12
Fall 2009 Office Hours: MW 1:35 - 2:05 (GELM 502), TR 3:30 - 4:30 and by appointment

Margaret Gonglewski came to GW to direct the German language program in 1995, after completing her PhD in German at Georgetown University. Her scholarly work focuses on foreign language pedagogy, and she is co-author of Treffpunkt Deutsch, one of the top introductory level German textbook programs in North America. She has published articles on topics such as effective uses of technology in language teaching and learning, critical issues in materials selection, and the paradigm shift from language labs to language centers. From 2004 to 2008, Gonglewski served as the first Director of the GW Language Center, initiating innovative programming, as well as support and recognition for GW’s language faculty. She has been awarded several grants for developing materials to assist faculty in teaching business languages, and she is currently Business Languages Coordinator for GW’s Center for Business Education and Research, funded by a grant for the U.S. Department of Education. She won a Bender Teaching Award in her third year at GW and in 2002 she received the CCAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising.

Recent Publications:

• Treffpunkt Deutsch: Grundstufe, 5th Edition, with E. Rosemarie and Fritz T. Widmaier. Prentice Hall, 2008.
• “Thinking globally, acting locally: Selecting textbooks for college-level language programs,” with John Angell and Stayc DuBravac. In Foreign Language Annals, 2008.
•  “Toward higher ground: Transforming language labs into language centers,” with John Angell and Stayc DuBravac. In the Journal of the Internationl Association of Language Learning Technology, 2007.
• “Multiliteracy: Second language literacy in the multimedia environment,” with Stayc DuBravac. In Calling on CALL: From Theory to Research to New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching, Lara Ducate & Nike Arnold (Eds.), CALICO, 2006.

Mary Beth Stein , Associate Professor of German
Director of German Literature
Office: PHIL 509F, 994-6896
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 109.10, GER 165.10
Fall 2009 Office Hours: M 4:00 - 6:00 and by appointment

Prof. Stein joined the Department in 1997. After receiving her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1993, she taught at Haverford and Carleton Colleges. She has published articles on folklore history, Berlin and the Berlin Wall. Her current research explores the relationship between memory and literature since German reunification. Her primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of German cultural studies, folklore and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Supported by a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholar grant, Professor Mary Beth Stein spent the 2000-2001 academic year in Berlin for a research project that deals with the Stasi files in East Germany and their socio-cultural ramifications. Professor Stein received GW's Bender Teaching Award in 2002.

Recent Publications:
• “Post-Socialism in Post-revolutionary Perspective,” In: Anke Stephan and Julia Obertreis (eds.), Erinnerungen nach der Wende: Oral History und (Post)sozialistische Gesellschaften/Remembering after the Fall of Communism: Oral History and (Post)-socialist Societies, pp. 255-262. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2009.
• “The Stasi With a Human Face? Ambiguity in Florian von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others,” German Studies Review XXXI no. 3 (2008): 567-579

Monika Harris, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509A-1, 994-2112
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 001.10, GER 001.11
Fall 2009 Office Hours: TR 12:00 - 12:30

Susanne Hoepfl-Wellenhofer, Adjunct Professor of German
Office: PHIL 509H, 994-6336
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 009.10, GER 009.11, GER 009.12
Fall 2009 Office Hours: MWF 10:30 - 11:00, MF 12:10 - 12:40, F 1:35 - 2:05 and by appointment

Susanne Hoepfl-Wellenhofer has been with the department since January 2000. She is originally from Austria and went to the Karls-Franzens-Universität in Graz. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in German and Serbo-Croatian. She has taught first, second and third year German at GW. She is currently teaching third year German focusing on media, history and current events. She is fluent in Serbian and Croatian, having learned the language formally and having worked for several months in Zagreb and over three years in Belgrade before the break-out of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.

One of her main interests is in the area of integrating technology into education and E-Learning. She taught her first German-online course "German 101, Readings in Contemporary German" in the summer of 2009.

Susan Norland , Adjunct Professor of German
Office: PHIL 509H, 994-6336
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 091.10, GER 161.10
Fall 2009 Office Hours: T 2:00 - 3:00, R 10:00 - 11:00

Beatrix Pollack , Adjunct Professor of German
Office: PHIL 509M, 994-3826
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 005.10, GER 173.10
Fall 2009 Office Hours: TR 1:00 - 2:00 and by appointment

Richard Rogan, Professorial Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509A-1, 994-2112
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 001.14
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Immediately after class and by appointment

Dr. Rogan has a Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures with a specialization in German literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries. He has taught German language and literature at Concordia College, Northern Illinois University, Gettysburg College, and Georgetown University. Since 1980 he has been a member of the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies and in that capacity teaches German to American opera singers and instrumentalists in Graz, Austria. For several years he served on the Examination Development Committee for the AP Exam in German.

Viola Stoehr, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509M, 994-3826
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 003.12
Fall 2009 Office Hours: M 1:00 - 2:00, W 3:30 - 4:30

Christina Wall, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509A-1, 994-2112
Fall 2009 Courses: GER 003.10, GER 003.11
Fall 2009 Office Hours: MR: 10:00 - 11:00