German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese Studies

Anita Campitelli

Anita Campitelli attended New College in Sarasota, Florida, where she studied history and German, and Northwestern University, where she was admitted to Ph.D. candidacy in German in 1981. She has taught German at UNCG since 1986, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, the use of technology in teaching and increasing cultural content in elementary foreign language courses. Her website, "German for Music Lovers," is a popular place to learn German: over 20,000 visitors a month from all over the world use this resource.

Currently, Ms. Campitelli is earning an M.A. degree in Spanish from UNCG and developing web materials for that language as well, including "Spanish for Music Lovers."

Anita Campitelli
Lecturer in German and Spanish
UNCG, MHRA 1125
336-334-5275
a_campit@uncg.edu

Andreas Lixl

Andreas Lixl is Professor of German, and Head of the Department of German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese Studies at UNCG, where he teaches German language, literature, and European cultural history. He grew up in Salzburg, Austria. After attending the University of Vienna he transferred to the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he received a Ph.D. in German Studies in 1984. His publications include a monograph on the theater of the Weimar Republic, two college textbooks for German Studies, and research anthologies on Jewish autobiographies, women of exile, and Carolinian immigrant memoirs. His current scholarship focuses on transnational literature, European cultural history, and German teaching technologies.

Arndt Niebisch

I joined the faculty of UNC Greensboro in the fall of 2007. I am originally from Unna, a small town close to the Ruhrgebiet - the former steel and coal center of Germany. After completing my Abitur, I studied German Philology, Philosophy, and History at the University of Münster. In 1999, I moved to Baltimore and began my graduate studies at the Department of German at the Johns Hopkins University, which I completed with a dissertation about the "Noise" aesthetics of Italian Futurism and German Dada in 2007.

I have taught a wide range of courses from introductory German and Italian language classes up to advanced literature and culture seminars discussing the impact of technology, philosophy, and science on artistic production.

In my research I am especially interested in the intersection of science, technology and literature. I am currently working on a book manuscript discussing the influence of media technology on the European avant-garde.

Susanne Rinner

Susanne Rinner is an Assistant Professor of German Studies. Her research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary German literature, film, and culture, and her research interests include the sixties, protest movements, and terrorism; cultural memory; and the transnational and transcultural relations between the US and Germany. As a fellow of UNCG's Center for Critical Inquiry she is happy to pursue interdisciplinary research projects. Susanne is currently working on a book manuscript with the title 1968 and the German Literary Imagination. Literary Representations and Debates of the Sixties after 1989.

Susanne was also very involved in the development and implementation of the nationally acclaimed undergraduate curriculum "Developing Multiple Literacies" at the German Department at Georgetown University. She continues to be interested in issues of second language acquisition and how they relate to course and material development and to teaching on all levels of a foreign language, literature, and culture department at institutions of higher learning. She enjoys working closely with students in and outside the classroom and serves as the faculty advisor to UNCG's German Honor Society.

Susanne is originally from Speyer, a small, yet historically significant town located at the Rhein river in the south of Germany. After an apprenticeship at a publishing company which publishes the most respected German dictionary, Duden, and the leading encyclopedia in German, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, she began her studies in philosophy, literature, and law at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Experiencing feelings of Wanderlust, she applied for a fellowship program at Washington University in St. Louis where she received her M.A. in 1997. In 2003, she received her Ph.D. in German Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. After teaching at Allegheny College, Georgetown University, and George Washington University she joined the faculty here at the Department of German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2007. She moved to Greensboro with her husband Bryan, her two daughters Zoë and Sophia, and their cat Kalinka.