Fall 2004-Present: Assistant Professor of German, Coordinator of First and Second Year German Program,
Department of Modern Languages,  Ohio University

Fall 2008-Present: President, Ohio Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German

2009, 2007, 2006, 2004:  Director: Salzburg Study Abroad Program, Ohio University.

Ph.D.: Spring 2003, German
    The Ohio State University : Columbus, Ohio
    Dissertation: “Authenticity and the Critique of the Tourism Industry in Postwar Austrian Literature"

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn : Bonn, Germany, 1998-1999; Study Abroad Fellowship, The Ohio State University
James Boswell Instituut - Universiteit Utrecht : Utrecht, Netherlands, Summer 1997; Program in Dutch Language and Jewish Studies, The Ohio State University

M.A.: 1993, German
     Bowling Green State University : Bowling Green, Ohio
    Master's Thesis: “The Journey in the Films of Wim Wenders”

Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg : Salzburg, Austria, 1991-1992; Academic Year Abroad Program, Bowling Green State University

B.A.: 1991, German and Geography
     West Virginia University : Morgantown, West Virginia

Salzburg College : Salzburg, Austria, Summer 1989; Summer Study Abroad Program, West Virginia University

• Distinguished Service Award: Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, Ohio University, 2008
• Finalist. University Professor Award.  Ohio University. 2008.
• Participant  in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute "Melting Pot Vienna: Then and Now," Summer 2006
  Internatonal Travel Fund Grant: November 2005, Ohio University
• Presidential Fellowship: Spring 2001-Winter 2002; Academic Fellowship from The Ohio State University
• Preparing Future Faculty Program : Winter-Spring 2000; Selection to Mentoring Program with Liberal Arts Institutions; Mentor: Prof. Linda DeMeritt, Allegheny College, Meadeville, Pennsylvania
• Bonn Fellowship: 1998-1999; Study Abroad Fellowship from The Ohio State University
• Oskar Seidlin Fellowship: Spring 1998; Academic Fellowship from the Department of GLL, The Ohio State University
• Departmental Service Award: 1997-1998; Department of GLL, The Ohio State University
• Austrian-American Educational Exchange-Fulbright Commission Teaching Assistantship: 1994-1995
• Austrian-American Educational Exchange-Fulbright Commission Teaching Assistantship: 1993-1994

• Assistant Professor: Fall 2004-Present; Courses: Elementary German 111, Intermediate German 211, 212, 213, German 355 (Survey of German Literature to 1900), German 356 (Survey of German Literature since 1900), German 435: Seminar  (Winter 2009: Migration and Migrants in the German-speaking Countries), International Literatures Modern Languages: ILML 338c, Modern Languages 250 (Orientation to Study Abroad )
• Visiting Assistant Professor: Fall 2003- Present; Courses: Elementary German1-2, Intermediate German 1-3, Advanced Composition-Conversation 1-2, Orientation to Study Abroad
• Visiting Instructor: Fall 2002-Spring 2003; Courses: Elementary German 2, Intermediate German 1-3, Advanced German Composition and Conversation 1

• Teaching Assistant: 1995-2002; Courses: Elementary German 1-4, Intensive Elementary German, Individualized Instruction (Self-paced Elementary German 1-4)
• Teaching Apprentice: Apprenticeship with Prof. Dagmar Lorenz, Winter 1998; Course: German 399: The Holocaust in German Literature and Film

• Teaching Assistant:  Handelsakademie ,  Höhere Bundeslehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe , and  Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium , Neumarkt, Austria, 1994-1995; Subjects: English Language, American History and Culture
• Teaching Assistant:  Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium , Rohrbach, Austria, 1993-1994; Subjects: English Language, American History and Culture

• Teaching Assistant: 1992-1993; Courses: Elementary German 1-2
• Tutor: Salzburg Academic Year Abroad Program, 1991-1992; Subjects: Tutor for undergraduate courses in Geography and German

• Director, Study Abroad Program in Salzburg: Ohio University, Department of Modern Languages, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 ( Program information website )  (2009 Program Website)
• Director, Study Abroad Program in Salzburg: Ohio University, Department of Modern Languages, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 ( Program information website )  (2007 Program Website)
• Director, Study Abroad Program in Salzburg: Ohio University, Department of Modern Languages, Fall 2005-Spring 2006 (2006 Program Website)
• Director, Study Abroad Program in Salzburg: Ohio University, Department of Modern Languages, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 ( Program information website )  (2004 Program Website)

• Ryan Smith (Spring 2008) Honors Tutorial College Thesis: "The Condition of the Individual in East German Utopias"

• Co-Author Jörg Waltje. "The iPod Project: A Mobile Mini-Lab."   Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology.  4.2 (2008).  http://www.rcetj.org/?type=art&id=90086& .
• Review of Katrin Kohl and Ritchie Robertson, eds. A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000.  German Studies Review.  31.2 (2008) 442-3.
• Review of Bettina Matthias, The Hotel as Setting in Early 20th-Century German and Austrian Literature: Checking in to Tell a Story.  Modern Austrian Literature.  40.4 (2007) 157-159.
• "Ein Fressen für mein MG" The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders." Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945. Eds. Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Dagmar Wienroder-Skinner.  New York: de Gruyter, 49-71 (2006) .
• “TIPP: Der Deutschlehrer des Grauens: or how to ...” Die Unterrichtspraxis.  38.2 (2006): 198-99.
• "Über alle Gipfel. Eine Studie zu der literarischen Wahrnehmung des Alpentourismus." Review of Wolfgang Hackl, Eingeborene im Paradies. Die literarische Wahrnehmung des alpinen Tourismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer 2004.)  IASLonline.  URL: <http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/rezensio/liste/Sathe3484351004_1351.html>.
• “TIPP: Wo hast du meinen Ausweis versteckt? A Variation on ‘Schiffeversenken’ to Practice 2-Way Prepositions.” Die Unterrichtspraxis.  36.1 (2003): 14.
• Review of Norbert Gstrein, Selbstportrait mit einer Toten.  (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2000), Modern Austrian Literature. 33: 3/4 (2000): 186-8.
• “‘Das ganze Land aus Kunststoff:’ The Problem of Authenticity in Two Austrian Touristic Dystopias.” Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Social Imagery: The Image of the Twentieth Century. Pueblo: SISSI/University of Southern Colorado, 507-514 (2000)

• Austrian Studies, Literature and Film (Twentieth-Century to the Present),  Language Pedagogy

• 2008  (November)  "Sustaining the Momentum - Collaboration between secondary and post-secondary German programs" at the American Association of Teachers of German / American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
• 2008 (October) "Tense Present: Temporal Structures in Barbara Albert's Fallen." at the 32nd Annual German Studies Association Conference, St. Paul, MN
• 2008 (April) "Performing Eastern Europeans in Recent Austrian Cinema." at the Annual International Symposium and Meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Seattle,WA
• 2007  (November)  "Quick Fixes: Immediate Initiatives:  Report from the "Sustaining the Momentum-External Committee" at the American Association of Teachers of German / American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX
• 2007 (November)  "Sound Ideas: Digital Recorders as a Tool for Learning Language and Culture"  (Co-Presented with Bärbel Such: Ohio University) at the American Association of Teachers of German / American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX
• 2007 (November) "Using Digital Photography for Teaching Language and Culture in a Study Abroad Setting"  at the American Association of Teachers of German / American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX
• 2007 (November) "'In der Kürze liegt die Würze: Using Short Films to Teach Language and Culture." at the Ohio Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German Conference, Columbus, OH
• 2007 (October) "'über die Grenze' and into a 'Neue Welt' Representing Eastern Europe in Two Austrian Documentaries." at the 31st Annual German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA
• 2006 (November) "kaklakariada: The Music of Attwenger between the Global and the Local." at the American Association of Teachers of German / American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.
• 2006 (September) "Borders in Recent Austrian Cinema." at the 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
• 2006 (September) Commentator for panel "Screening Austria I" at the 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
• 2005 (November) "'Lustig, gemütlich, originell und vor allem sehr harmlos': Critique of the Tourism Industry in Hans Lebert's Constructions of Austrian National Identity." at The State Treaty Fifty Years On: Writing, Identity, and Austrian Identity, Trinity Collge, Dublin, Ireland
• 2005 (September):"“Is ne lange Geschichte […] Mußte schon n bißchen Zeit haben.” Time and Storytelling in Uwe Timm’s Die Entdeckung der Currywurst." at the 29th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee,WI
• 2005 (April): "Family Ties? Representations of Eastern Europeans in Recent Austrian Film," at the Annual International Symposium and Meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Missoula, Montana.
• 2004 (October): "Ein Fressen für mein MG" The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders," at the 28th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC
• 2004 (October): Commentator for panel "Travel, Exile, Displacement: Homelessness in Twentieth Century German Literature,"at the 28th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC
• 2004 (March): "History and the Wende(n) in Robert Menasse's Schubumkehr," at the 35th Annual Northeastern Modern Languages Association Conference.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  
• 2003 (September): “Truth and the Representation of War in Uwe Timm’s Die Entdeckung der Currywurst,” at the 28th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film.  West Virginia University. Morgantown, West Virginia
• 2002 (October): “Race and Difference in Peter Henisch’s Schwarzer Peter,” at the 27th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film.  West Virginia University.  Morgantown, West Virginia
• 2002 (April): “‘Unsere Berge sind Berge von Toten:’ Tourism and Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the Works of Hans Lebert,” at Austrian Writers Confront The Past: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 2001 (June): “‘The Whole Country Made Of Plastic!’ The Issue of Authenticity in Representations of Tourism in Austrian Literature and Film,” at Tourisms, Conflicts, Identities, Environments: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
• 2001 (April): “The Problem of Authenticity: Tourism and Identity in Postwar Austrian Literature,” at the 54th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington. Kentucky
• 2001 (March): “Tourism, Authenticity, and Identity in Norbert Gstrein’s Einer,” at the 32nd Annual Northeastern Modern Languages Association Conference. Hartford, Connecticut
• 2000 (October): “‘Darüber wurde nicht gesprochen:’ Processes of Staging and Hiding in Norbert Gstrein’s bsp;Einer,” at the 24th Annual German Studies Association Conference. Houston, Texas
• 2000 (March): “‘Das ganze Land aus Kunststoff:’ The Problem of Authenticity in Two Austrian Touristic Dystopias,” at The 9th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Social Imagery: The Image of the Twentieth Century. Colorado Springs, Colorado
• 1998 (February): “Identity and the Past in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay,” at (Re)Presenting the Holocaust, The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio

• Fall 2006-Present: Vice President: Ohio Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German
• Spring 2006- Present: AATG External Committee: Sustaining the Momentum
• 2004-Present: "Austria" Editor and Contributor: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon

At Ohio University, Department of Modern Languages:

• Language Program Coordinator (Coordination of Elementary and Intermediate German, Website Design and Maintenance): 2004-Present
• Curriculum Committee: 2005-Present
• Faculty Advisor: German Club: 2005-Present
• Curriculum Committee: 2005-Present
• Evaluation and Reappointment Committee: 2004-2006
• OLEC (Ohio Leipzig European Center) Steering Committee: 2004-Present
• Alumni Relations and Departmental Outreach Committee: 2003-Present
• Faculty Mentor for Students in Learning Portfolio Project: 2003-2004

• Study Abroad Committee: 2001-2002
• Graduate Studies Committee: 1999-2001
• Conference Planning Committee: Biographical Approaches to German Literature   2000
• Assistant Conference Coordinator: Fourth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Winter- Spring 1998
• Undergraduate Studies Committee: 1996-1998
• Conference Planning Committee: (Re)Presenting the Holocaust, 1998
• Assistant to Undergraduate Studies Adviser: 1996-1997

• Der Besuch der alten Dame: Actor, 1998
• Der Talisman : Director, Lead Actor, Publicity, 1997
• Herr Peter Squentz: Actor, Publicity, 1996

• Biedermann und die Brandstifter: Assistant Director, Lead Actor, 1993

• Assistant:  Foreign Language Center , The Ohio State University, 1999-2000; Database Management for Multi-CAT, a Multimedia Foreign Language Evaluation Program
• Research Assistant: Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, Bowling Green State University, Summer 1993; Collected Bibliographic Information for Film and Literature Database

• American Association of Teachers of German
• German Studies Association
• Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
• Modern Language Association
• Northeastern Modern Language Association