Assistant Professor of German, Chair of the Department and Director of the Bonn Program
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8127

E-mail: SopcakL@ripon.edu

Bonn Program Web Page

Education

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• M.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• B.A., Central College, Pella, Iowa, with honors

Awards and Honors

• Global Partners Faculty Development Seminar, "Economics, Polity and Religion in Turkey," Ankara, Istanbul and Central Anatolia, Turkey, June 2003
• Best of Minnesota Award for: "Deutschland im Vergleich," Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures Conference, Bloomington, Minnesota, October 26, 2002
• Goethe Institute Scholarship, Summer Seminar in Germany: "Deutschland im Vergleich," July 2002
• Travel Grant, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, Germany, March 2001
• Summer Study Grant, German Department, University of Minnesota, 1989
• DAAD Stipend, Interdisciplinary Seminar in German Studies, "Representing the Past: Postwar Politics and Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic," University of California at Berkeley, July-August 1988

Areas of Interest

• 20th Century Literature (Weimar)
• Women Writers
• Weimar Film, New German Cinema
• Minority Literature

Recent Publications

• Textbook Correlations: English Grammar for Students of German. Jacqueline Morton, ed. Olivia and Hill P, March 2001, <http://www.oliviahill.com/>
• Harald Hartung, "Lyric Poetry in Berlin since 1961," charles W. Haxthausen and Heidrun Suhr, eds., Berlin: Culture and Metropolis. U of Minnesota P, 1991, 187-205. (Translation)

Current Courses Taught

• Beginning & Intermediate German
• German 314: Conversation and Composition
• German 315: Reading Texts and Contexts
• German 361: Studies in 20th Century Literature and Culture (1900-1944)
• German 362: Studies in Contemporary Literature and Culture (1945-Present)
• German 300: German Youth and Children's Literature