Department of Foreign Languages Faculty

Dr. Sabine Cramer

Webster Hall, Room 363
417-625-9649
E-Mail - cramer-s@mssu.edu

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Currently on 1 year sabbatical.

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Dr. Sabine Cramer teaches German. She is a native of Germany and received her earliest schooling there. She came to the United States and received an M.A. in German from the University of Houston and then took a second M.A. in linguistics and semiotics from Rice University. Her Ph.D. is in Germanic languages from the University of Texas at Austin. She taught previously at the University of Siegen, Germany; the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, and at Vanderbilt University.

 

Courses Taught At MSSU:
Ger 101 Beginning German I
Ger 102 Beginning German II
Ger 203 Intermediate German I
Ger 204 Intermediate German II
Ger 301 Reading & Conversation
Ger 302 Readings in Literature & Culture
Ger 305 Business German

Ger 306 German History & Civilization

Ger 401 German Music, Literature & Art
Ger 417 German Literature: 19th Century
Ger 418 German Lit of the 20th Century
Ger 498 Advanced German Grammar
Ger 498 German Outside of Germany

Research Interests:
 Ironie und Witz im Gesamtwerk Fontanes  (Irony and Humour in Theodor Fontane s oevre). In progress.
Festschrift for Professor Gertrud B. Pickar. (book publication, Fink Verlag, Germany). In progress.

Professional Memberships:
Women in German
German Studies Association
American Association of Teachers of German
South Central Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association
Fontane Gesellschaft

Honors/Awards/Recognition
Research Leave, Vanderbilt University, 1994-95
University Research Council Award, Vanderbilt University, 1994
Continuing University Fellowship UT Austin, 1990-91
Assistant Instructorship, UT Austin, 1987-90
Travel Awards, Rice University, April and October 1986
Scholarship, Rice University, 1985-86
Research Award, University of Houston, 1985
Teaching Assistantships, University of Houston, 1983-85
Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston, 1984
Delta Phi Alpha (German Honors Society)
Phi Kappa Phi (International Honors Society)

Publications & Presentations

  • SCMLA, Increasing the enrollment in Germany, 1999
  • "Annaeva and Blaubart - Narrative Structures," MIFL, 1998
  • "Annette v. Droste-H lshoff re-invented," Kentucky Foreign language Conference, 1998
  • Monika Maron: "Who am I," Conference on the Narrative, 1998
  • Cramer, Sabine. Theodor Fontane. Die Hoffnung im Geringen. (submitted for publication)
  • Cramer, Sabine, ed. Neues zu Altem: Novellen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart. Houston German Studies, Vol. 10 Stuttgart: Fink, 1995. (international)
  • Pickar, Gertrud Bauer and Sabine Cramer, eds. The Age of Goethe Today. Houston German Studies, Vol. 7 Stuttgart: Fink, 1990. 247p. (international)
  • Lefort, Rosine and Robert. Die Geburt des Anderen, Bericht einer Kinderanalyse aus der Lacan-Schule. Trans. Sabine Cramer. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1986. 274pp. (international)
  •  Gertrud v. Lefort: Die Letzte am Schafott.  Neues zu Altem: Novellen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart. Houston German Studies, Vol. 9 1995. (international)
  •  Grete Minde: Structures of Societal Disturbances.  Shifting Icons on Theodor Fontane and Realism. Ed. Marion Doebeling. Stuttgart: Camden House, 1995. (national)
  •  Max Frisch s Blaubart - the Art of Erasure.  Festschrift f r Helmut Kreuzer. Ed. Friedrich Voit, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Egon Schwarz, Washington University. 1995. (international)
  •  Stephan Hermlin, Literature.  Encyclopedia of Nationalism. Sponsored by Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism. Ed. J rgen K. Doerr, University of St. Thomas, 1995. (international)

 

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