Lorna Sopcak

  Lorna Sopcak

 

Education

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

 

Current Courses Taught

  • German 211, 222: Intermediate German
  • German 314: Conversation and Composition
  • German 315: Reading Texts and Contexts
  • German 344: Film in Germany
  • German 347: Fairy Tales: Critical Approaches
  • German 354: The Holocaust in Literature and Film
  • German 362: Studies in Contemporary Literature and Culture (1945-present)

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany and American Association of Teachers of German Seminar and Travel Grant, “Die Entwicklung von interkultureller Kompetenz im Kontext DaF: Lernziele, didaktische Ansätze und Evaluierung,” University of Leipzig, June 7-21, 2008
  • Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar Grant, “The Holocaust: Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders,” Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington, D.C., Jan. 2-8, 2008
  • James R. Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Ripon College, May 2005
  • Region Nordamerika IDT Goethe-Institut Scholarship, for Internationale Deutschlehrer Tagung, Graz, Austria, Aug. 1-6, 2005
  • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Seminar Grant, “Kinder- und Jugendliteratur,” Bremen, Germany, July 18-30, 2005
  • Scholar Access Grant, Center for European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., summer 2005
  • Newberry Library Research Grant, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, May 2005
  • AATG TraiNDaF Grant, Goethe-Institut Seminar, “Mittel des Theaters im Unterricht,” Berlin, June 20-July 3, 2004
  • Selected by the American Association of Teachers of German to TraiNDaF 2004 (Transatlantisches interkulturelles Nachwuchsförderungsprogramm Deutsch als Fremdsprache) Leadership Training Program
  • Global Partners Faculty Development Seminar Grant, “Economics, Polity and Religion in Turkey,” Ankara, Istanbul and Central Anatolia, Turkey, June 10-22, 2003
  • 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, Minn., Oct. 26, 2002

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • “Humor and Weimar Popular Discourse,” “Shades of Humour.” Ed. Alina Kwiatkowska, Sylwia Dzeren-Glowacka. Piotrkow Trybunalski: Naukowe Wydawnictwo Piotrkowskie, 2008. 1: 59-66.
  • Review of “Mittelpunkt. Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Fortgeschrittene,” by Albert Daniels et al. “Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German” 40.2 (2007): 207-8.
  • Member of AATG author team, “Unterrichtsmaterialien/ Didaktisierungsvorschläge: Im Land der Schokolade und Bananen,”  and “Didaktisierungsvorschläge zu dem Buch Das Paradies liegt in Amerika,” Cherry Hill: AATG, 2006.
  • “Spielerisches Lesen,” Brigitte Sorger, ed., Thesenband. “Begegnungssprache Deutsch: Motivation–Herausforderung–Perspektiven.” Graz: Drückerei Khil, 2005, 182.

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • 20th-century literature
  • Women writers
  • Weimar film and literature