Expertise

Research Areas

  • historical Germanic linguistics, word-formation, affixoids, grammaticalization, lexicalization.
  • foreign language teaching and learning
  • scholarly writing

Subject Area

  • German
Past Affiliations

Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Department Chair, German Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Language Program Director, German Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Director, German Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Assistant Professor, German Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Language Program Director, German Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Associate Professor, French Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Assistant Professor, French Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Communities
Language Studies, German
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991
Keywords
modern language or literature