German Studies: Graduate Students

Magelone Bollen

bollenma@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. student since 2006
Guidance Chair: Dr. George Peters
Dissertation topic: undecided
Degrees Earned: MA equivalent in German and History (Mainz, Germany, 1991)

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Kylia Kelley

kelley88@msu.edu

Graduate Status: M.A. candidate
Guidance Chair: Senta Goertler
Degrees Earned: BA from Grand Valley State University

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Daniel Paul Kline

klineda1@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. student since 2008
Degrees Earned: BA German/Theatre (Adrian College), MA German/Theatre (BGSU)
Research interest: Puppetry and German Theatre

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Su Jin Lee

leesu2@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. student
Guidance Chair: Dr. Patricia Pausell
M.A. or Dissertation Topic: undecided
Degrees Earned: BA and MA German Language and Literature

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Jeannine Mickeleit

mickelei@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. candidate
Guidance Chair: Dr. Thomas Lovik
M.A. or Dissertation Topic: undecided
Research interests: Culture and the implementation in the foreign language classroom
Degrees Earned: MA in German Studies from Michigan State University (2006) and MA in Secondary education from University of Phoenix (2006)

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Stephen Naumann

naumanns@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. candidate
Guidance Chair: Dr. George Peters
Masters Thesis topic: Solving the Stadtschloss Dilemma: What a New Façade Will Say about Old Berlin
Dissertation topic: Comparison of collective memory at several sites in Berlin and Poznań, Poland
Research Interests: Berlin's urban landscape; memory culture; constructs of place; Polish-German history; football & identity.
Degrees Earned: MA in German Studies (MSU, 2006); BA in German and Travel & Tourism (Western Michigan University, 2005); BA with focus on classical Greek, biblical Hebrew and German (Martin Luther College, 2001)

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Theresa Schenker

schenke5@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. student since 2008
Guidance Chair: Undecided
Dissertation topic: undecided
Degrees Earned: MA equivalent (Staatsexamen in German and English from Friedrich-Schiller- Universit‰t Jena (2008), Thesis: Mothers as Monsters- Motherhood in Novels by Contemporary African American Women Writers

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Steffi Schuetze

schuetz3@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. candidate
Guidance Chair: Dr. Karin Wurst
Dissertation topic: undecided
Research Interests: The topic of women's utopianism in German literature, particularly the subgenres of intimate utopia, educational utopia, anti-utopian satire and invented societies in the 18th century and utopianism in GDR-Literature, The educational potential of drama for German language acquisition
Degrees Earned: M.A. (Dipl.-Journ.) HOCHSCHULE FUR MUSIK UND THEATER HANNOVER, Germany; Thesis: Representation of East German Writer Christa Wolf in the news journal Der Spiegel M.E. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN, Germany; Thesis: Incorporation of Literary Texts into the Social Science Curriculum

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Matthew Sherman

sherm132@msu.edu

Graduate Status: M.A. candidate
Guidance Chair: undecided
Degrees Earned: BA from Stetson University

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Oya Uraz

urazoya@msu.edu

Graduate Status: Ph.D. candidate
Guidance Chair: undecided
Dissertation topic: undecided
Research Interests: Adult Learning, Planning Language Programs for Adult Learners, Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language (German-English), Pedagogical Issues in  Language Teaching, Language Teaching Methodology, German Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Teaching Culture in a Language Classroom, Computer-assisted Language Learning, Language Assessment, Sociolinguistics.
Degrees Earned: BA in German Studies from Michigan State University (2007), MA in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University (2004), BA in English Language and Literature from Bilkent University, Ankara-Turkey (1991).

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Daniel Walter

walterd08@msu.edu

Graduate Status: M.A. candidate
Guidance Chair: undecided
Degrees Earned: BA from Dickinson University

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