CONDRAY, KATHLEEN
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(B.A., University of Arkansas, 1994, summa cum laude; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001) returned to her alma mater in 1999. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth century literature, women's studies, minority literature and culture, and immigrant literature. Her book Women Writers of the Journal “Jugend” from 1919-1940 was published in 2003, and her articles have been published in Monatshefte and Seminar. She has presented her research in ten papers at national and international conferences, and she will present another new paper in Fall 2006 at the annual ACTFL conference. She was selected for the Fulbright German Studies Seminar on the topic “International Migration and National Identities” and the NEH Summer Institute “German and European Studies in the U.S.—Changing World, Shifting Narratives.” In 2006, she begins a two year term as elected president of the state chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German. Dr. Condray enjoys working with honors students on thesis topics about German literature or German culture and also serves as an on-campus liaison for paid summer internships in Germany through the CDS organization and as the co-advisor for the German Cooking Club.
HOYER, JENNIFER
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(B.A., English and German, Tulsa University, 1997; M.A. Modern German Lit, University of Minnesota, 1999; Ph.D. Modern German Lit, University of Minnesota, 2007) joined the faculty of the UA German program in fall 2007. Research interests include German-Jewish history and literature, poetry, 20th-century perceptions of Medieval and Early Modern literature, and literary relationships between Germany and Sweden. She is currently working on a book on the early and post-World War II work of poet Nelly Sachs, on whom she has presented and published nationally and internationally. Hoyer has taught courses in German Cinema, German History and Civilization, Comparative Literature, Modern German literature, Poetry, Poetry and Auschwitz, and German language courses from First Semester to Advanced Stylistics for Graduate Students. She is on the planning committee for the annual Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Education conference. Hoyer has been and continues to be involved in the German Summer School in Taos Ski Valley, NM.
GREEN, JONATHAN
(B.A., German and linguistics, Brigham Young University, 1995; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003) joined the German program in fall 2008. His research interests include medieval and early modern German literature, early printing, and the history of the book. At the University of Arkansas, he has taught beginning and advanced German, German conversation, and the Grimms' fairy tales.
