Maria h. snyder, Ph.D.
 
 
About Myself
 
Education: M.A. Ph.D.
School: B.A.- German & Dance, Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D. - German Literature Washington University St Louis
M.A. - French Literature (expected fall 2008)
University of Illinois Chicago
Research Interests: 16th century landscape in text and image, book and media history, translation, francophone literature.
Teaching Interests: German language at all levels, urbanism in literature, text & image, media history, lyric poetry, national identity in literature, translation.
My Course links
German Language (download 4th semester German syllabus)
Literature in Translation (download Masterpieces of German Literature syllabus)
Imagining Paris (site)
reference links:
 
My pages on:
* Foreign Language Careers
* Grants & Stipends for Foreign Language Students
* Getting a Job
 
 German LIterature & Film
Reference Works:
Zitate
Quotations
 
Writers:
Thomas Bernhard
Brigitte Kronauer
Theodore Fontane
Robert Musil
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Hans Sachs
 
Film:
100 Most Significant German Films
Wolfgang Becker, director
Vanessa Jopp, director
Swiss Films
Laurent Cantet
 
 
 
 
CV  EDUCATION University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois M.A. candidate in French (August 2005- expected graduation December 2008) Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Ph. D.: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (August 2003) M.A.: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (May 1996) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut B.A. in Dance and German (1992) TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Missouri St Louis Assistant Teaching Professor of French and German (fall 2007 - present) • Second semester French, FR 1002 (fall 2007) • Third semester French, FR 2101 • First semester German, GR 1001 (spring 2008) • Imagining Paris, FR 4311 (fall 2007) • Temps infâmes, 19th & 20th century French Literature, FR 3281 (spring 2008) Normandy Business School (SupEurope), Caen, France English Language & Culture Instructor - U.S. Civilization (fall, 2006) - Australian Civilization (fall, 2006) - English Conversation (fall, 2006) Loyola University, Chicago Literature in Translation Instructor • European Novel (spring 2005) Developed writing-intensive 20th-century world literature and film course. Used reading logs, debates and creative writing to facilitate discussion and a structured writing process to help students organize, revise, and correct their work. • Eastern-European Literature (spring 2005) Created new survey course in twentieth-century Eastern European literature focusing on the immigrant experience, exile in literature, and themes of war and survival. Used organizational check-lists, stylistic exercises, free writing, peer-editing and creative projects to help students, including second-language learners, improve writing skills. Developed Blackboard course page. • Masterpieces of German Literature (fall 2004) Wrote new syllabus for course introducing students to the novels, short stories, poetry, and music of 18th and 19th c. Germany. In a writing-intensive setting, provided students with progressive writing tasks and self-assessment tools. Used weekly writing logs, thought papers, and in-class writing to develop students’ portfolios of ideas and insights. Instructor of German • German 104/250: Advanced German (fall 2004) Conducted entirely web-based course for advanced students. Class utilized on-line news and radio sources to treat current themes in politics and culture. Students created video projects on subjects in contemporary German society and media. • German 369: German for Reading Knowledge (summer 2003) Created an intensive course tailored to graduate students in history, philosophy, and theology for acquiring basic grammar and vocabulary in six weeks. • German 104/250 (spring 2003) Developed a combined class for second-year and advanced students. Built students’ skills in speaking, comprehension, reading and writing using film, short texts, and conversational practice in a communicative setting. Used CourseConnect system to create on-line syllabus and assignments. Wrote exams, graded tests and homework. Gave each student a written evaluation in addition to a final grade. • German 103 (fall 2002) Taught a communicative, third-semester German language class that introduced students to complex grammatical structures and expressions, as well as challenging texts and films. Wrote syllabus emphasizing the four basic skills, but with emphasis on in-class dialog, writing, and classroom presentations. Newberry Library, Chicago Public Programs Seminar Instructor • Kafka's Century (spring 2005) Explored the connections between Kafka and the Yiddish tradition from the perspective of contemporary religious and philosophical debates; traced influence and humor through later Czech and Polish writers. • Women’s Travel Writing (fall 2004) Working with non-traditional students, explored travel writing by women from the perspective of feminist and post-colonial analysis. Assigned texts by European, Native American, and African-American authors; used film, music, and visual art to explore women’s attempts at cultural assimilation and appropriation. Washington University, St. Louis Women’s Studies Instructor • Introduction to Women’s Texts (spring 2000) Integrated literature and history by using European, African, and American women’s novels and travel writing in a writing-intensive seminar on the history of ideas of women’s liberty. Wrote syllabus, graded weekly papers, and gave students written evaluations. German Teaching Assistant • European Nationalism from a German Perspective (fall 1999) Provided multimedia support, led discussion sections. • German 290, Intensive German (spring 1999) Led students from use of basic grammar and vocabulary in conversation to reading short texts and finally making ten-minute oral presentations in a course combining second and third semester German. • German 313, German Conversation (fall 1998) Taught students to converse with confidence, widen their vocabularies, and use idiomatic expressions in a course focusing on German culture as well as verbal skills for daily life. • German 290, 102, 101 (1998, 1995-1996) Planned and led three weekly practice sessions focusing on oral communication. ADDITIONAL TRAINING American Association of Teachers of French Conference (July 5-8, 2006) Workshops: Putting Assessments in Focus First; Le chanson pour faire bouger votre classe, and Le cinéma pour écouter, parler, jouer, écrire et s'instruire. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE Washington University Summer Program in Göttingen On-site Faculty Supervisor (summer 1999) Accompanied and advised students enrolled in a two-month language program at the Goethe Institute in Göttingen. Organized outings and cultural activities, provided language tutoring and academic counseling. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Universität Zürich: Travel and housing grant for symposium “Text-Bild-Karte” (January, 2002). Washington University: Dean’s dissertation fellowship (fall 2001-spring 2002). Dr. Günter Findel Foundation: Research stipend for the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany (May-August, 2001). Renaissance Consortium: Research stipend for the Newberry Library in Chicago (summer 2000). American Friends of the Herzog August Bibliothek: Travel grant for research at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany (summer 1999). Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Awarded two fellowships to participate in seminars on “Early Modern Material Culture” at Washington University (summer 1998 and summer 2000). Washington University German Department: Graduate fellowship (fall 1994 - spring 1995). PUBLICATIONS Joint translation, with Ashley MacIlwain: "The Journey" by Erica Pedretti, World Literature Today, Vol. 69, no. 3. “Mathematische und militärische Perspektiven im Süddeutschland des 16. Jahrhunderts: Schedel, Münster, Dürer und Specklin." Text-Bild-Karte. Kartographien der Vormoderne. eds. Christian Kiening, Jürg Glauser. Freiburg: Rombach, 2005. BOOK REVIEWS "Augsburg, die Bilderfabrik Europas. Essays zur Augsburger Druckgraphik der Frühen Neuzeit." Ed. John Roger Paas, Augsburg: Wissner, 2001. Reviewed in Sixteenth-Century Studies Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2. Alain Demurger. Die Ritter des Herrn: Geschichte der geistlichen Ritterorden. trans. from the French by Wolfgang Kaiser, Munich: C.H. Beck, 2003. Sixteenth-Century Studies Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1. Imaginationen des Anderen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Ina Schabert and Michaele Boenke, eds. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Bd. 97. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002. Sixteenth-Century Studies Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2. The Silk Road. Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia. Frances Wood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Sixteenth-Century Studies Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "Amkoullel, l'enfant peul, and the Colonial Education of a West African Writer." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April, 2008). Respondent: "Literature and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Germany" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting (March, 2004). “Romantic Intimacy or Epic Sweep? The Challenge of Scale and Historicity in the Text and Images for Emperor Maximilian’s Weißkunig.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (November, 2003). “More Fear than Wonder: Landscapes and War in Early 16th-Century Nuremberg’s Prose Literature.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April, 2002). “The Materialist Approach to Early Modern Maps.” Text-Bild-Karte Symposium. Zurich, Switzerland (January, 2002). “Landscapes of Cities and Rivers in City Encomia and Endres Tucher’s Baumeisterbuch.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (November, 1999). “Cityscapes and the Book: Sixteenth-Century German Topographies and the Localities of Prose.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference (October, 1999). “Melusine, Fortunatus, and Other Boundary-Crossers.” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (November, 1998). LANGUAGES German: near-native fluency French: advanced proficiency Latin: reading knowledge PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Association of Teachers of German American Association of Teachers of French Modern Language Association Sixteenth-Century-Studies Association American Translators Association Renaissance Society of America REFERENCES available on request