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Assistant
Professor of German Studies, Silke von der Emde received her Ph.D
from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1994. Before coming to Vassar
in 1994, she spent three years teaching in the German Studies Department
at Dartmouth College. Silke von der Emde has taught classes and published
articles on GDR literature, feminist theory, and German film. She
is currently working on a book on GDR author Irmtraud Morgner and
she is doing research on East German (DEFA) films. Her interests in
the intersection of teaching, learning, and computer technology have
led to several collaborative computer projects: a webpage on East
German Women Writers, created together with her students in her senior
seminar; a webpage with interactive German language drills put together
with the help of Cristina Carp and the Ford Scholarship program; and
a collaborative project on "Intercultural Language Learning" with
her colleague Jeffrey Schneider. This project, supported by two Mellon
grants and two Ford Scholarships, involves teaching the department's
Intermediate German class (German 210) on-line in exchange with students
from the University in Münster, Germany, in a German language
MOO, called MOOssiggang.
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