Silke von der Emde Associate Professor of German Studies
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.
- MA, PhD, Indiana University
- At Vassar since 1994
Contact
- Email: vonderemde@vassar.edu
- Phone: 845-437-5618
- Office: Chicago Hall
- Hours: Mondays & Thursdays 2:45-3:30pm and by appointment.
- Box: 426
Departments and Programs
Courses
- CLCS 185. Vassar View: Vassar Advising Intensive
- GERM 105. Beginning German: The Stories of Childhood
- GERM 230. Contemporary German Culture and Media