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Charlotte Ann Melin

Charlotte Melin

612-626-8785
German, Scandinavian & Dutch 227 Folwell Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • postwar German poetry
  • German-American literary relations
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • foreign language education
  • Second Language Acquisition

Publications

  • “Between the Lines: When Culture, Language and Poetry Meet in the Classroom” : Melin, Charlotte Ann, Language Teaching: Surveys and Studies , available on-line for citation November 2009 .
  • The Language Program Director in Curricular and Departmental Reform: A Response to the MLA Ad Hoc Report: Melin, Charlotte Ann, Glenn S. Levine, Corrine Crane, Monika Chavez, and Thomas A. Lovik, MLA, Profession 2008 , 240-54, 2008.
  • Poetic Maneuvers: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the Lyric Genre. Melin, Charlotte Ann, Northwestern University Press, 2003.
  • German Poetry in Transition (1945-1990), a critical anthology of new translations, edited and annotated. Melin, Charlotte Ann, University Press of New England, 1999.
  • Improved Versions: Feminist Poetics and Recent Work by Ulla Hahn and Ursula Krechel. Melin, Charlotte Ann, 1997.
  • English Grammar for Students of German, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th eds. Melin, Charlotte Ann, Cecile Zorach; 5th ed. revised by Elizabeth Kautz, Olivia and Hill Press, Author, 2009.

Professional Activities

  • Chair, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota: 2006 - 2009
  • Director of Language Instruction, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota: 1997 - 2005
  • MLA Committee on the Teaching of Language: 2007 - 2011
  • American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) German section head: 2004 - 2006

Courses Taught

  • Ger 8240 - 20th-Century German Literature and Culture Seminar (Poetry)
  • GSD 5103 - Teaching of Germanic Languages
  • Ger 3512W - German Civilization and Culture: 1700 to the Present
  • Ger 3104W: Introduction to Literature - Literature as Performance
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