Amila Becirbegovic
Amila Becirbegovic was a graduate student in Germanic Studies at the UT-Austin and is now a Ph.D. student in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of California at Davis. She received both her Master’s degree in German Literature and Culture (2010) and her Bachelor’s degree in German with a minor in Justice Studies (2008) from Arizona State University. Amila has taught German to secondary and post-secondary students for a combined five years at Marcos De Niza (HS), Arizona State University and the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century culture and literature (modernity, memory and identity) and media studies (visual culture, atrocity representations and memorial spaces). Her work on this project includes editing, transcribing interview footage and development of pre-viewing activities.
Ettore Marchetti
Ettore is currently in his first year at the PhD program in Italian Studies at UT. He studied at the University of L’Aquila, where he received his Laurea in Italian Literature. From 2008 to 2010, he attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Italian language and literature. While studying for his Master’s he was appointed as a Teaching Assistant. He has also taught Italian language at different levels in private schools in Italy, the Dominican Republic and Russia. His research interests are new trends in contemporary Italian linguistics with a focus on morphology and lexical issues, contemporary Italian cinema, and the relationship between cinema and language. Ettore developed post-viewing activities for this project.
Karin Maxey
Karin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She entered the program in 2010 with a Master’s degree in German from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught German, Swedish, and English in the US and abroad. Her dissertation investigates how students write about cultural perspectives they encounter while reading foreign language texts. She contributed to this project by developing post-viewing activities and conducting background research on A Man’s A Man.
Jessica Plummer
Jessica Plummer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She entered the program in 2009, receiving a Master’s degree from the department in 2011. Her primary research interest is late nineteenth-century popular literature and culture. Jessica’s contributions to this project include copy-editing and development of post-viewing activities. She read her first Brecht poem in 2003 as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas.
Annika Sterzenbach
Annika Sterzenbach is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the program in 2011 after receiving a Master’s degree from the University of Kentucky in 2011. Her primary research interests include second language vocabulary acquisition and frame semantics. Annika developed pre-viewing activities for this project.
Per Urlaub
Per Urlaub is an assistant professor and language program director at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Before coming to UT-Austin, he was an assistant professor at Southern Connecticut State University, a graduate student at Stanford and the University of Utah, a high-school instructor in the UK, and a Lehramtsstudent at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel. His publications focus on literary reading in the second language, hermeutics and SLA, as well as the potential contributions creative writing, documentary film, and rap music hold for collegiate foreign language/culture learning. He served as the project manager.