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Dr.
Cynthia Chapa
Instructor of German
817 257-6367 | RH 226C
c.chapa@tcu.edu |
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Cynthia
Chapa received her BA in German with a minor
in Philosophy from Valparaiso University
in Indiana. She continued her German studies
at the University of Chicago where she achieved
the M.A. and the Ph.D. in Germanic Languages
and Literatures. She spent an undergraduate
year and a graduate research year at the
Karl-Eberhard Universität in Tübingen,
Germany. Her teaching experience includes
Angelo State University, Jesse H. Jones High
School, Houston (Vanguard Program), Houston
Community College, Rice University (Continuing
Studies Program) and the Goethe-Institut
in Houston. After serving on several
occasions as adjunct faculty at TCU, Dr.
Chapa now holds a position of Full-Time Instructor
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Dr.
Jeffrey Todd
Associate Professor of German and French
817 257-6362 | RH 113A
j.todd@tcu.edu |
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Dr. Todd came to TCU in 1997
from the University of Cincinnati, where he
earned his PhD. He also earned a Magistère
in French Culture and Civilization from the
Sorbonne and an M.A. in French from the University
of Cincinnati. Dr. Todd's main scholarly interest
is in German intellectual history from 1850
to the present. He has published articles on
the poets Stefan George and Paul Celan, and
the critics Theodor Adorno and Ernst Robert
Curtius. His most recent article appeared in
the Camden House Companion to the Works of
Stefan George. He is also concerned with
American cultural politics past and present:
in the past insofar as it affected the German-American
community; in the present inasmuch as it shapes
our image of and relations with European countries.
A recent development in his work is a return
to his interest in jazz. He studies saxophone
and music theory and performs in jazz groups
on and off the TCU campus. In addition to his
scholarly and creative pursuits, he very much
enjoys introducing undergraduate students to
the German language and culture. In the free
time that he has, he enjoys spending time with
his family (wife Heather and children Henry
and Phoebe) and friends. |
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Dr.
Scott G. Williams
Associate Professor of German
Director, Language Learning Media Center
817 257-7163 | RH 113B
scottw@tcu.edu
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Williams (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at
the University of Texas at Austin) lived in
Hamburg, Germany for ten years. He earned a
B.A. in History from Stephen F. Austin University
and a Magister Artium in Greek and Roman history
and archaeology (with a minor in American literature)
from the Universität Hamburg. His areas
of interest include the reception of classical
Greece and Rome in modern literature, contemporary
German literature, translation studies, Computer
Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and cyberstudies.
His most recent article concerns the intersection
of translation theory and cultural studies: "Rewriting
Rome in post-1945 German-language Literature:
Examining Image, Norm, Habitus, Tertium comparationis" (ACROSS
Languages and Literature). He is currently
working on issues of translation, localization,
and globalization. |
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