Margaret Woodruff-Wieding, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae, Last Updated: May 2007

Education

Currently full-time student in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin. Coursework completed. Comprehensive examination at end of fall 2007.

M.A., Comparative Literature, UT-Austin, report on the play Marat/Sade by European playwright-artist Peter Weiss, 2005

Ph.D., Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin; dissertation on political satire in broadside ballads (Bänkellieder), minor in literature in translation and the U.S. novel, 1974

M.A., Germanic Languages, UT-Austin; thesis on German writer-artist Christoph Meckel, 1970

B.A. with high honors and special honors in German (thesis on Swiss playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt), UT-Austin, 1964

Teaching Experience, 1970-Present

Adjunct Professor of Humanities and English at Austin Community College, 2002-present

Full-time tenured assistant professor and coordinator of the German Studies Program, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Texas Lutheran University, 1987-2001

Adjunct Instructor of German at Austin Community College, 1977-1987

Part-time German instructor, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, 1985

Teaching assistant, instructor, and assistant to first-year course coordinator Janet Swaffar, Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin (elementary, intermediate, scientific, and intensive German; supervised multiple sections taught by teaching assistants), 1970-81

Subjects Taught:

German—all undergraduate courses offered, including conversation, composition, culture, history, literature, area studies, advanced grammar, linguistics, business German, scientific German, folk and fairy tales, Brecht’s drama, languages across the curriculum (for history and theology), second-language teaching methods

English—freshman composition and communication I and II, sophomore world literature I and II, introduction to literature

Interdisciplinary--introduction to humanities, honors readings course, honors seminar in arts and ideas, global perspectives, exploring the arts and sciences

Supervised at Texas Lutheran University: supplemental instruction tutors, six internships in elementary and intermediate language instruction, and seven senior seminar presentations

Publications, 1968-1997

Books, 1982-1989

Favorite Games for FL-ESL Classes With Laura Ayala. Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Productions, 1989.

Comprehension-Based Language Lessons: Level I. Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Productions, 1986. xxx, 232 pp.

Translation: Achievement Motivation in Perspective by Heinz Heckhausen, Heinz-Dieter Schmalt, and Klaus Schneider. New York: Academic Press, 1985. x, 337 pp. With Robert A. Wicklund. Also prepared subject index.

Translation into German (for Siemens Corporation contract) of computer documentation: "Die Lexikonkodierung für das Übersetzungssystem METAL" Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1985. 87 pp.

Translation: Ethical Problems in Psychological Research by Heinz Schuler. New York: Academic Press, 1982. xviii, 269 pp. With Robert A. Wicklund. Also prepared subject index.

Articles and Working Papers, 1976-2007

"Sound and Fury in a Madhouse: Weiss' Enlightenment Project from the Reign of Terror." Notizblätter: Mitteilungen der International Peter-Weiss-Gesellschaft 25 (March 2007): 4.

“Language for Comprehension.” With Janet K. Swaffar. Modern Language Journal 62 (1978), 1-2:27-32.

“Activities and Games for Foreign Language Learning.” ERIC Document ED 268807, 1978.

“Comprehension and Communication, Fine; But What Do You do About Grammar?” ERIC Document ED 268810, 1978.

“The Role of Listening and Speaking in a Reading Program.” ERIC Document ED 268809, 1978.

“Integration of the Total Physical Response Strategy into a First-Year German Program.” ERIC Document 126688 FL 007722, 1976.

Short Translations, 1968-1983

“Zünd.” “The Crow.’” Two short stories in Christoph Meckel’s The Figure on the Boundary Line: Selected Prose. Ed. Christopher Middleton. Manchester: Carcanet, 1983.

“Ethics in Europe.” Essay by Heinz Schuler in Ethics of Human Subject Research. New Directions for Methodology of Social and Behavioral Science 10. Ed. A. J. Kimmel. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1981.

Excerpts from four prose selections in The German Mind of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Hermann Glaser. New York: Continuum, 1981.

Poems, aphorisms, short stories, and an essay. Dimension 1, 3, 5, and 12 (1968-1979).

Reviews, 1980-2005

Review of Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign by Antony Tatlow for The Comparatist 29 (May 2005): 161-63.

Review of Tearing the Silence: Being German in America by Ursula Hegi for Austin American-Statesman, 28 Dec.1997.

Review of Tales from the Sunday House by Minetta Goyne for Austin American-Statesman, 8 June 1997.

Review comparing Verseschmiede and Literatur zum Anfassen, Die Unterrichtspraxis 29/1 (Spring 1996):112.

Review of ATA Conference--1985. Ed. Newman. Computers and Translation 2,2 (1987):123-125.

Review of Meaning-Based Translation. By Larson. Computers and Translation 1,2 (1986):189-190.

Review of Tools for the Trade. Ed. Lawson. Computers and Translation 1,1 (1986):53-55.

Review of Geschichten zur Unterhaltung. By Senner and Schuback. Schatzkammer 7,1 (1981):36-40.

Review of Using German. By Jespersen and Peters. Schatzkammer 6,1 (1980):113-116.

Papers Presented, 1988-2004

“Sound and Fury in a Madhouse: Peter Brook Scores Peter Weiss.” Paper presented at the First Annual Graduate Student Conference for Comparative Literature and Literary Studies of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, 8 October 2004.

“Memory and Music: Striking the Right Note.” Paper presented at “Gender, History, and Memory,” Annual International Symposium on Modern Austrian Literature and Culture, Rice University. Houston, Texas, 24 April 2004.

“A Footnote on Repartee in the Chicana/o Cultural Scene.” Paper presented at “Sequels,” Annual Ethnic and Third World Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. Sponsored by the Department of English. Austin, Texas, 5 Apr. 2002.

“Didaktik des Deutschunterrichts an einem amerikanischen College.” Paper presented at the Vechta campus of the University of Osnabrück, Germany. 4 June 1992.

“Fairy-Tale Transformations and Transformed Narrative Structure in the Postwar German Literary Fairy Tale: Example Christoph Meckel.” Paper presented at the annual joint meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the American Association of Teachers of German. California, 19 Nov. 1988.

Editing, Writing, Research, Curriculum Development, Translation, 1966-2006

Consultant for the Living Newspaper Across the Disciplines Program sponsored by the Humanities Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, September 2006-August 2007

Content writer for the Living Newspaper Across the Disciplines Resource Guide Team sponsored by the Humanities Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, April-May 2006

Prepared 36 tests as ancillaries for a 3^rd-year high-school German textbook for Holt Rinehart Winston Publishers, 1994, and edited testbank for a college humanities textbook for McGraw-Hill, 2006

Copy editor for journal Computers and Translation, UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center, 1986-87

Editor for high-school German proficiency textbook for Learned & Tested, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1986

Machine translation researcher, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin: translated technical documentation, post-edited and analyzed computer translations, classified lexicon, 1979-85

Updated extensive on-line bibliographies on machine translation and Indo-European language and culture, Linguistics Research Center, UT-Austin, 1979-87

Associate editor, Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte,1978-2000

Presented 28 workshops in 13 cities throughout the United States for second language and social studies instructors, and taught summer graduate courses in language teaching methodology for Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1976-95

Designed curriculum, supervised teachers, taught summer camp sponsored by American Association of Teachers of German, 1975-78

Managing editor, Texas Business Review, and editor of business and economics books, Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas at Austin, 1974-75

Energy database bibliographer, Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas at Austin, 1974

Research associate, bibliographical projects on medieval drama and Thomas Mann, University of Texas at Austin, 1966-67

Educational Background beyond B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 1977-present

Full-time graduate student in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, August 2002-present

Full-time graduate student in English, University of Texas at Austin, August 2001-May 2002

Completed all 64 hours required by State of Texas as a mediator in general and family dispute, May 1999

Goethe Institute authorized tester for three internationally recognized exams: /Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (/now/ ZD), Zertifikat Deutsch für den Beruf, Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung, Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung/ (completed 1997)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: certified 1986 as German oral proficiency tester; refresher workshop 1993

ATA-accredited translator, German to English, since 1978

Secondary school teaching certificate, German and English, since 1977

Courses Taught for Colleges and Universities, 1970-2003

Courses Other Than German

Introduction to humanities (2002-2003)

World literature before 1650 (1998, 1999, 2000)

World literature after 1650 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)

English composition and communication I (General Education) (1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)

English composition and communication II (General Education) (1988, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)

Exploring the arts and sciences (General Education) (1988, 1989, 1997, 1998)

Global perspectives (Interdisciplinary) (1991, 1994) (team-taught first time)

Languages across the curriculum (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999) (for theology and world and American history) (team-taught)

Methods and materials for teaching foreign languages (1976, 1977, 1978, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)

Honors readings, honors seminar in arts and ideas (seven or more times between 1988 and 2001) (team-taught)

German Studies Courses

German area studies (taught in Germany for Texas Lutheran University 1989, 1991, 1992)

Directed and independent study in German : individually selected topics such as fairy tales and folk tales or the writings of Bertolt Brecht (taught most semesters 1988-2001 to groups of 1-3 students)

First semester German language and culture, sometimes intensive (an average of two times each year 1970-1997; 2000)

Second semester German language and culture, sometimes intensive (an average of one or two times each year 1971-2000)

Third semester German language and culture, once intensive (1972, 1979, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001)

Fourth semester German language and culture, once intensive (1972, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000)

Fifth semester German language and culture (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000)

Sixth semester German language and culture (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999)

German conversation not in regular course sequence (1979, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1992)

The German question in historical perspective; and Germany through the ages (1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000)

Germany today; and Contemporary political and cultural issues in German-speaking countries (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)

Advanced German grammar and composition (1998, 2000)

German linguistics (1994, 1996)

German for special purposes: business (1999)

Scientific German (1981, 1991)

German literature through 1870 (1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001)

German literature after 1870 (1992, 1994, 1995, 1997)

Cultural history of Austria and Switzerland (1995, 2000)

German senior seminar (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001)

German teaching internship (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)

Workshops Presented, 1976-1995

April 1976, Denton, Texas, 3 hours, 70 high school and college German instructors, presentation on experimental German program at UT-Austin, for annual meeting of Texas chapters of American Association of Teachers of German, with Truett Cates, Rosie Cupp, and Turid Sverre, at North Texas State University.

April 1976, Denton, Texas, 1 hour, 30 high school and college German instructors, workshop on encouraging student participation through language learning games, for annual meeting of Texas chapters of American Association of Teachers of German, at North Texas State University.

July 19, 1976, Junction, Texas, 2 hours, 12 high school and college German instructors, “The Total Physical Response Approach to Language Learning in a First-Year German Program,” teacher-training course at Texas Tech University Center in Junction as part of German Summer Language Program, American Association of Teachers of German.

July 23, 1976, Junction, Texas, 2 hours, 12 high school and college German teachers, “Learning German Through Games,” teacher-training course at Texas Tech University Center in Junction, as part of German Summer Language Program, American Association of Teachers of German.

August 16, 1976, San Antonio, Texas, 1 hour, 30-40 high school foreign language teachers, “Total Physical Response Approach to Language Learning in a First-Year German Program,” inservice training for Northeast Independent School District, with Rosie Cupp.

August 17, 1976, Austin, Texas, 3 hours, 20-30 high school foreign language teachers, “Total Physical Response Approach to Language Learning in a First-Year German Program,” part of a conference on revitalizing foreign language instruction sponsored by the Region 13 Education Service Center, with Truett Cates, Rosie Cupp, and Turid Sverre.

August 19, 1976, Fort Worth, Texas, 3 hours, 50-60 secondary school foreign language teachers, “Total Physical Response Approach to Language Learning in a First-Year German Program,” inservice training for Fort Worth Independent School District, with Turid Sverre.

October 10, 1976, Fort Worth, Texas, 1 ½ hours, 30 high school and college foreign language instructors, workshop on foreign language reading for the Fort Worth Area Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

April 21, 1977, Columbia, South Carolina, 1 day, 20 high school and college foreign language instructors, “Experimental Program at UT-Austin: A Comprehension-Based Approach to Language Learning,” Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of South Carolina.

August 4, 1977, Junction, Texas, 2 hours, 12 high school and college German instructors, “Listening Comprehension and Grammar with the Total Physical Response Approach,” teacher-training course at Texas Tech University Center as part of German Summer Language Program.

August 5, 1977, Junction, Texas, 2 hours, 12 high school and college German instructors, “Reading Comprehension and Communication Activities,” teacher-training course at Texas Tech University Center as part of German Summer Language Program.

August 16-19 and 22, 1977, Austin, Texas, five 4-hour sessions for 5 high school German teachers from Austin and Georgetown as orientation for using the UT-Austin comprehension-based program; followed by monthly 2-hour meetings with the 4 Austin teachers, September-May, with discussions and demonstrations by teachers and guests.

September 1977, Austin, Texas, 15-minute panel discussion of NEH experimental high school program in Austin with a high school teacher and the foreign language coordinator of the Austin Independent School District, as a community news spot on local television.

October 11, 1977, Austin Texas, 2 hours, 70 high school and college foreign language instructors, “Teaching Reading Comprehension,” sponsored by the College of Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, with Janet Swaffar.

October 1977, San Marcos, Texas, 30 minutes, 25 high school and college German instructors, “The NEH Experimental High School Program in Austin,” at the fall meeting of the Southwest Council of German Teachers, Southwest Texas State University.

November 26, 1977, San Francisco, California, 45 minutes, 40 high school and college foreign language instructors, “Teaching Reading Comprehension,” for the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, with Janet Swaffar.

December 3, 1977, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 hours, 25 elementary and secondary teachers and college instructors of English as a Second Language, “Reading and Listening Comprehension: The Asher Method and What Follows,” in a weekend workshop on listening comprehension for the ESL Program at Temple University.

April 21, 1978, Irving, Texas, 45 minutes, 50 high school and college German instructors, “Teaching Beginners to Read ‘Advanced’ Texts,” for annual meeting of Texas chapters of American Association of Teachers of German, at the University of Dallas.

June 19-30, 1978, Arlington, Texas, 2 weeks of a 6-week graduate linguistics course (master-teacher seminar), 18 high school and college foreign language instructors, for the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at the University of Texas at Arlington.

July 16 - August 5, 1978, Junction, Texas, a 3-week graduate German methods course (also offered as 6 hours of undergraduate methods and advanced conversation), 19 high school and college German instructors, teacher-program portion of AATG Summer Language Program at German Summer Camp, course offered by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages at Texas Tech University at the Tech Center in Junction. Included coordinating the entire instructional program for high school students.

February 10, 1979, Fort Worth, Texas, 3 hours, 8 high school foreign language teachers, workshop on techniques for teaching foreign language reading strategies and improving student interest in reading foreign languages, for the Fort Worth Area Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

September 1979, Dallas, Texas, 3 hours, 30 high school foreign language teachers, workshop with Peggy Beauvois on the Asher method of foreign language instruction, primarily for teachers in private high schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, at Jesuit College Preparatory School.

August 12, 1983, San Antonio, Texas, 1 ½ hour keynote address on comprehension-based approaches to learning a second language (focusing on the Total Physical Response Approach) and 3 separate hour-long mini-sessions on reading and comprehension/conversation exercises in a comprehension-based program, 200 elementary and secondary school bilingual, ESL, and foreign language teachers in the San Antonio Independent School District.

August 26, 1986, Austin, Texas, 3 hours, all foreign language teachers in the Austin Independent School District, workshop on writing oral testing materials for proficiency/achievement evaluation, with Richard Lindley, Stuart Smith, and Laura Ayala.

June 15-18, 1987, Fort Worth, Texas, 3 hours per day, 20 elementary and junior-high teachers in the Arlington Independent School District, workshop on the Total Physical Response Approach to foreign-language education, as part of a course in teaching methods at Tarrant County Junior College.

February 27, 1988, Seguin, Texas, 6 hours, 30 elementary and secondary teachers from school districts in San Antonio and South Texas, workshop on how to teach the Texas “Essential Elements” of social studies in the context of the history, geography, politics, and culture of German-speaking countries, sponsored by the Mid-Texas Association for International Education. With Ray Gerhardt, Frances Koopmann, and Rüdiger Wrobel.

October 28, 1988, Austin, Texas, 20 minutes, session on motivating students in the college and adult foreign language classroom through the regular use of team competition in learning games, part of the Texas Foreign Language Association Fall Conference, with Pamela Hernandez.

November 4, 1995, Austin, Texas, 15 minutes, session on trends in German teaching today: presentation on German Across the Curriculum.

Languages

native: English, fluent

near-native: German (Superior Rating from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)

advanced: Spanish reading comprehension

good: French reading comprehension

acceptable: Spanish listening comprehension, speaking, and writing, French listening comprehension