Silke von der Emde

Associate Professor of German Studies
Silke von der Emde

Silke von der Emde received her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1994. She is the author of Entering History: Feminist Dialogues in Irmtraud Morgner’s Prose (2004) as well as several articles on GDR literature, feminist theory, and German film. She is currently writing a book with the working title Women, Memory and the Second German Past. In addition to her scholarship on contemporary German literature, film, and culture, she is co-directing a broad initiative at Vassar College on the Holocaust. Together with her colleague Jeffrey Schneider, she developed Vassar’s award-winning Intermediate German Sequence using the online bilingual environment MOOssiggang. The two have also published several articles on technology and foreign language pedagogy in prominent, peer-reviewed journals and books.

BA, Universität Tubingen; MA, PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington
At Vassar since 1994

Contact

845-437-5618
Chicago Hall
Box 426
Hours
Mondays & Thursdays 2:45-3:30pm and by appointment.

Courses

GERM 105 Beginning German: The Stories of Childhood
GERM 301 Senior Seminar

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