Dr. Andreas Lixl grew up in Salzburg, Austria. After attending the University of Vienna he transferred to the University of Wisconsin in 1974, from where he graduated with Baccalaureate degrees in mathematics and German. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin and received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Weimar Theater in 1984. His first teaching appointment was at Wabash College, Indiana, where he taught Liberal Arts courses and published a monograph on German cultural history. In 1987, he moved to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he continued his research on central European literature and culture. He has published articles on a broad range of topics, and several German Studies textbooks as well as anthologies on Holocaust and exile memoirs.  Since 1999, he has been Head of the Department of German Russian, and Japanese Studies at UNCG. His current research focuses on migrant autobiographies, European cultural history, and teaching technologies. He and his two children live in Greensboro, North Carolina.