🧑‍🏫Our Faculty

Meet the KSU German faculty, your guides to an exciting learning journey through innovative courses from beginner's language to senior seminars!

Directory

Dr. Sabine Smith Professor Pilcher 253 [e-mail]

Dr. Shane Peterson

Associate Professor Pilcher 248 [e-mail]

Dr. Dylan Goldblatt Senior Lecturer Pilcher 240 [e-mail]

Magdalena Constantin Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Susanne Estrella Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Sabina Carlson Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Janet Ward Instructor Pilcher 221 [e-mail]

Desiree Bessler WLRC Tutor Pilcher 134 dbessler@ students.kennesaw.edu

Faculty Publications

Dylan Goldblatt, Ph.D.

Articles

Goldblatt, Dylan. “The Vitruvian Source of Marvell’s Tortoise in ‘Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax’,” South Central Review, 36.3, Fall 2019.

Translations

Lerner, Marc. “Competing memories of a Swiss revolt: The prism of the William Tell legend,” in Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture, eds. Éva Guillorel, David Hopkin, Will Pooley. New York, Routledge. p. 90-120.

McDonald, William C. “Seeking Sedechias: Faustus, Trithemius, and the Path from Murder to Magic” in Wolfenbütteler Renaissancemitteilungen, vol. 38, p. 3-26.

McDonald, William C. “Leopoldus Iudaeus necromanticus: Concerning an Unpublished, Sixteenth-Century Day-Book Entry on the Execution of Lippold Ben Chluchim in Berlin, 1573” in Revue des etudes juives, vol. 176 (3-4), juillet-décembre, p. 371-391.

McDonald, William C. “Gödelmann’s Faustus (1591) Concerning the Fluidity of the Early Transmission of the Adventures of Faustus in Germany,” in Studia theodisca, vol. 23, p. 17-32.

McDonald, William C. “Standing atop a Dying World: Observing a Printer's Device of Franz Behem (1500-1582)” in Emblematica, vol. 23, p. 1-23.

McDonald, William C. “Ars imprimendi libros initium cepit: Remarks of a Lutheran Pastor, Georg Agricola (1554–1630), Concerning the Origin of the Art of Printing in Mainz.” in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, vol. 91, p. 177-189.

McDonald, William C. “A Certain Sedechias, a Jew by Religion and a Physician by Profession: On the Long Life of an Anti-Jewish Myth” in Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, vol. 23, p. 197-235.

Shane Peterson, Ph.D.

Articles

Ergai, Awatef, Shane D. Peterson, Ginny Zhan, and Sabine Smith. “Advancing Intercultural Communication Skills in Diverse Teams: An Intervention Program for Project-Based Engineering Courses.” Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 23.10 (2023): 120-136.

Peterson, Shane D. “The Contested Status of Illustrated Literature (1860-1890).” Colloquia Germanica 49.2-3 (2016 [2018]): 259-82.

Peterson, Shane D. “Projection Spaces: Manifestations of the Alpine in the Reception of the Austrian Heimatfilm Echo der Berge (1954) and of the Vienna Flak Towers.” Austrian Studies 18 (2010): 124-40.

Book Chapters

Peterson, Shane D. “Illustrated Editions of Novels as Marketing Strategy: The Case of Wilhelm Raabe.” Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Vance Byrd & Ervin Malakaj. De Gruyter, 2020. 269-305.

Peterson, Shane D. “Intranational Migration – The Search for Postwar Austrian Heimat in « Echo der Berge »(1954).” Imaginäre Topographien: Migration und Verortung, eds. Klaus Müller-Richter and Ramona Uritescu-Lombard. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007. 127-42.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Ergai, Awatef, Shane D. Peterson, Ginny Zhan, and Sabine Smith. “Improving Communication Skills in Global Engineers: Adapting the UNESCO Story Circles Method in an Undergraduate Engineering Course.” American Society for Engineering Education. 2022 Annual Conference & Exposition.

Textbooks

Peterson, Shane D., Sabine Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, and Susanne Estrella. “der und mehr”: An Online, Open-Source German Language Textbook.

Undergraduate Research Mentorship

Faculty Mentor, First-Year Scholars Program, “Measuring German Vocabulary Learning,” 2020-21.

Sabine Smith, Ph.D.

Monographs

• Peterson, Shane, Sabine H. Smith, Dylan Goldblatt, Susanne Estrella. Der und mehr. Open Textbooks, ALG, 2020. Available via https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/der-und-mehr

• Ehland, Christoph, Sabine H. Smith, eds. KSU UPB Maymester 2016: Georgia with the Germans. Paderborn: np, 2017. Available in print and via https://uni-paderborn.sciebo.de/index.php/s/wOpITMLOF3aCPsA

• Robbins, Sarah, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini, eds. Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011.

• Smith, Sabine H. Sexual Violence in German Culture: Rereading and Rewriting the Tradition. Studien zum Theater, Film, Fernsehen 26. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998.

Book chapters:

• Levintova, Ekaterina, Sabine H. Smith, Iris Berdrow, Laura Boudon, Dan Paracka, and Paul Worley. “Have Interest, Will NOT Travel: Multi-Institutional Study of the Reasons Why Students Opt Out of Study Abroad,” in: Namaste, Nina & Amanda Sturgill, eds. Mind The Gap: Integrating Global Learning at Home and Abroad (Stylus, 2020).

• Berdrow, Iris, Rebecca Cruise, Ekaterina Levintova, Sabine H. Smith, Laura Boudon, Dan Paracka, and Paul Worley. “Exploring Patterns of Student Global Learning Choices: A Multi-Institutional Analysis,” in: Namaste, Nina & Amanda Sturgill, eds. Mind The Gap: Integrating Global Learning at Home and Abroad (Stylus, 2020).

• Smith, Sabine H. “The Urban Residential Balcony as Interstitial Site.” Resistance and the City. Ed. Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer; (= Spatial Practices series). Amsterdam/Leiden: Rodopi/Brill, 2018, 168-184.

• Smith, Sabine H. “Staking the Ground for the ‘Third Place’: Fostering Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Students at an American University.” Intercultural Encounters in Education, vol.2 Ed. Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer and Hermine Penz. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2014, 9-27.

• Smith, Sabine H. “Perfectly Ambivalent: How German Am I?” Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, 40-60. (Reprinted in Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1) (2012), 11-31. Available http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bx354k1#page-1).

• Santini, Federica, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah Robbins. “Introduction.” Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, xxi-xlii. (Reprinted in Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1) (2012), 1-10. Available http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bx354k1#page-1 )

• Howard, Lori, Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Bridging Cultures writers. “Epilogue: Synthesizing Stories and Making Connections.” Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, 157-173.

• Santini, Federica, and Sabine H. Smith. “Questions: Reflection, Discussion and Cultural Change.” Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. Ed. Sarah Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Federica Santini. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011, 174-177.

• Smith, Sabine H. “’I would have hoped for a different discussion…’: An Interview with Helke Sander.” Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema. Ed. Ingeborg Major O’Sickey and Ingeborg von Zadow. New York: SUNY P, 1998.

Articles (peer reviewed/refereed):

• Ergai, Awatef, Shane Peterson, Sabine H. Smith, Ginny Zhan, ”Advancing Intercultural Communication Skills in Diverse Teams: An Intervention Program for Project-Based Engineering Courses.“ Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 23:10 (2023).120 – 136.

• Ergai, Awatef, Shane Peterson, Ginny Zhan, Sabine H. Smith, „Improving Communication Skills in Global Engineers: Adapting the UNESCO Story Circles Method in an Undergraduate Engineering Course,” 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022.American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 1-18. https://peer.asee.org/40608.Available here.

• GuramatunhuCooper, Nyasha M., Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Uttam Kokil, Sabine H. Smith, “Cross-Cultural Contexts of Teaching and Learning: Experiences of International Faculty at a Southeastern University in the United States,” Currents in Teaching and Learning14:1 (September 2022). 55-69. Available here.

• Smith, Sabine H., and Daniel J. Paracka. “Global learning is shared learning: Interdisciplinary intercultural competence at a comprehensive regional university” International Journal for Intercultural Relations 63:1 (2018), 17-26. Smith, Sabine H., “Investigating Products, Practices, and Perspectives in a Simulated Moving Abroad Project.” Garrett-Rucks, Paula and Alvino Fantini, eds. Dimension 2016 Special Issue: Focus on Intercultural Competence (2016). 169-194. Available at https://www.academia.edu/26575642/Dimension_2016_Special_Issue_Focus_on_Intercultural_Competence

• Terantino, Joseph, Claudia Stura, Sabine H. Smith, and Jeannette Boettcher. “Die Integration von interkultureller Kommunikationskompetenz in das Curriculum eines Institutes für Fremdsprachen: Eine explorative Fallstudie” [Integrating Intercultural Communicative Competence Into the Curriculum of a Department of Foreign Languages: An Exploratory Case Study] Intercultural Journal: Online Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Studien 12:21 (2013). 59-70. Available at http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/45416.

• Smith, Sabine H., and Miriam Bley. „Streets in the Sky: The Balconies of Lima and the Road to Intercultural Competence.“ The Journal of Global Initiatives 7:2 (2012). 143-166.

• Hoyt, Kristin, and Sabine H. Smith. “Keeping Them In While Getting Them Out” FLAG Journal 1:1 (Fall 2009). 15-22.

• Hunt, Hugh, Catherine Lewis, and Smith, Sabine H. “Following in Anne Frank’s Footsteps: An Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program.” The International Journal of the Humanities 5:9 (Fall 2007). 61-68.

Online teaching modules, research-based

• Contributor of online module “Embracing the Monkey Wrench: Preparing for the OPI” to Webinar by DFL Faculty Learning Community “High Leverage Teaching Practice” Available at https://mediaspace.kennesaw.edu/media/Webinar+1+Power+Point+Interpersonal+Task_FinalPrez/1_uh38bf81 (5/18).

• Contributor of online module “Exploring Your Worldview and the Importance of Self-Assessment” (pre-departure section) for KSU Campus Internationalization Prize: Online Intercultural Education and Training for Study Abroad Engagement,” for Co-PIs Drs. Wade-Berg, Slinger-Friedman, Robinson-Dooley, and Coffey, sponsored by the KSU Institute of Global Initiatives (6/16).

• Contributor of online module “Cultural Simulation “It’s Peanuts!” http://dga.kennesaw.edu/sig/itaic.php for KSU Campus Internationalization Prize: “Campus Internationalization Prize: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Assessment of Intercultural Competence,” for Co-PIs Drs. Smith, Paracka and Terantino, sponsored by the KSU Institute of Global Initiatives (6/15).

Performances, exhibits, and installations

• Coordinator of translation project (English-German) of KSU MHHE exhibit Voices from the Great War, with undergraduate students in GRMN 3200 (Spring 20232), KSU. Forthcoming.

• Coordinator of translation project (English-German) of KSU MHHE exhibit Enduring Tension: (En)countering Antisemitism in Every Age, with undergraduate students in GRMN 3200 (Spring 2022), KSU. Available at https://meethistory.kennesaw.edu/items/show/90 (5/22).

• Co-Curator of bi-lingual exhibit „Remembering Ravensbrück: Women and the Holocaust,“ co-presented w/ Dr. Jennifer Dickey and undergraduate students in HIST 4426 and GRMN 3305, KSU (5/12).

• Co-Curator of bi-lingual exhibit „Karikatur of Power:World War II Through Political Cartoons,“ co-presented w/ Dr. Catherine Lewis and undergraduate students in HIST 4428 and GRMN 3305, KSU (3/09).