1984: M. A. in American Literature, English Literature, Modern History, University of Würzburg.
1984: Staatsexamen (Secondary Teachers'
Certificate) in English and History, University of Würzburg
INSTRUCTOR, University of Texas Extension Correspondence Program (1987-2001). Developed curriculum, wrote several 80-120-page study guides, and graded lessons for college-level correspondence courses in literature and composition. Implemented use of the Internet and created content of first web-based course (English 376L "American Science Fiction") which won a Site of the Week Award by the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as the Region 3 "Teacher of the Year Award "of the Continuing Education Association.
LECTURER, American Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin (Spring 1993). Developed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature and culture. Also co-editor of The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter (1991-1993). Responsible for acquisition of articles, layout, production, and mailing list.
INSTRUCTOR, English Department, Austin Community College (1987-1992). Taught courses in composition (including computer-assisted composition) and literature.
LECTURER, English Department, University of
Würzburg (1984-1987). Taught courses in literature and
translation. Acted as Departmental Student Advisor. Also assistant
editor of the academic journal Amerikastudien/American Studies
(1986-87).
Articles:Kritische Träume: Ambivalenz in der amerikanischen literarischen Utopie nach 1945. Studien zur Phantastischen Literatur, 5 (Meitingen: Corian, 1987).
"Secret Sharers: The Doppelgänger Motif in Speculative Fiction." The Fantastic Other. An Interface of Perspectives. Ed. Brett Cooke et al (Amsterdam: Rodophi, 1998): 209-220."Robert Silverberg's The World Inside as Ambiguous Dystopia." Robert Silverberg’s Many Trapdoors: Critical Essays on the Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg. Ed. Charles Elkins and Martin Greenberg (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992): 95-105.
"‘Home is a Place Where You Have Never Been’: Emigration and Exile in the Hainish Novels of of Ursula K. Le Guin." The Literature of Emigration and Exile. Ed. Wendell Aycock and James Whitlark (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1992): 105-113.
"Fantasy and the Poetics of Literary Utopia: Robert Graves' Watch the North Wind Rise." Utopian Studies 4. Ed. Lise Leibacher and Nicholas Smith (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991): 65-71.
"Utopian Re-Visions of German History: Carl Amery's An den Feuern der Leyermark and Stefan Heym's Schwarzenberg." Extrapolation 31:1 (1990): 24-35.
"The Image of Medicine in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction." The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine. Ed. Wendell Aycock and Bruce Clarke (Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1990): 115-126.
"The Shape of Things to Come: Utopian Science Fiction in the Nineteen-Seventies." Western Ohio Journal 10:1 (1989): 131-137.
"Women’s Space: The Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" Indian Journal of American Studies 19 (1989): 19-27.
"Bleeding Ink", AATIA Newsletter, November 2003
"Migrating to a New PC", AATIA Newsletter, July 2003
"Backups Revisisted", AATIA Newsletter, May 2003
"Are you eXPerienced?", AATIA Newsletter, January 2003
"The Lap(top) of Luxury", AATIA Newsletter, November 2002
"Of Bottom-Feeders and Bleeding Edges", AATIA Newsletter, July 2002
"Ten Indispensable WWW Services", AATIA Newsletter, May 2002
"The Library, Sturgeon's Law and the Internet", AATIA Newsletter, March 2002
"Reading Matter for Translators", AATIA Newsletter, January 2002
"Catch that Bug!", AATIA Newsletter, November 2001
"Stet, or The Joy of Editing", AATIA Newsletter, September 2001
"Speeding on the Net", AATIA Newsletter, July 2001"Just the Fax, Ma'am", AATIA Newsletter, May 2001
"Translators and Elephants" AATIA Newsletter, March 2001
"Lions and Tigers and Worms, Oh My!" AATIA Newsletter, January 2001
"When Disaster Strikes" AATIA Newsletter, November 2000
"Catch Those Internet Buzzwords" ETranslate.net
"Market Your T/I Services Online" AATIA Newsletter, September 2000
"Search Engines Revisited" AATIA Newsletter, July 2000
"What to Do Before Starting a Web Site Translation" Translationzone.com, April 2000
"Chainsaws and Butter" AATIA Newsletter, May 2000
"Paperless Papers " AATIA Newsletter, March 2000
"More Freebies in Cyberspace" AATIA Newsletter, January 2000
"Beyond Dictionaries" AATIA Newsletter, November 1999.
"Beyond PacMan: Translating for the Computer Game Industry" ATA Chronicle, September 1999.
"Online Y2K Resources" AATIA Newsletter, September 1999.
"Finding Books Online" AATIA Newsletter, July 1999.
"10 Great WWW Sites for Translators" AATIA Newsletter, May 1999
"Spreu und Weizen - Internet Resources for German Translators" ATA Chronicle, March 1999.
"Using Internet Mailing Lists" AATIA Newsletter, March 1999. Reprinted in the New Mexico Translators and Interpreters Association Newsletter, June 1996.
"Boost Your Computer Vocabulary" AATIA Newsletter, January 1999
"The Eight Laws of Successful Software Localization" Austin Software Leader, Fall 1998.
"DTP for Translators" AATIA Newsletter, November 1998
"Government Resources Online" AATIA Newsletter, September 1998. Reprinted in CATI Online, Summer 1999.
"Language Resources on the World Wide Web" NOTIS News, Spring 1998 ; also in Intercambios- The Newsletter of the Spanish Division of the American Translators Association, Winter 1988.
"Stretching your Software Dollar" AATIA Newsletter, July 1998
"A Babble of Glossaries" AATIA Newsletter, May 1998
"A Miscellany of Tips and Tricks", AATIA Newsletter, January 1998
"Wandering the Web" NOTA BENE, January 1998.
"The Sights and Sounds of the Internet" DVTA Newsletter, January 1988.
"Language Resources on the WWW" CHICATA News, Fall 1997.
"Chat Rooms and Newsgroups" AATIA Newsletter, September 1997
"Free Lunch on the Net" AATIA Newsletter, July 1997
"Just FTP it" AATIA Newsletter, January 1997
"I Want my Web TV" AATIA Newsletter, December 1996
"German Aerospace Dictionaries" ATA Chronicle, September 1996.
"Listening to the Web" AATIA Newsletter, July 1996.
"New Finds in Cyberspace" " AATIA Newsletter, May 1996.
"World Wide Web Resources for Translators" AATIA Newsletter, March 1995.