劳拉·埃德特博士.D.

Dr. Laura Eidt has taught in the German, Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Humanities programs at the University of Dallas since 2006, and is Director of the Humanities Program and 教师 Advisor for the K-12 Classical Curriculum Team .

Laura Eidt grew up in Germany and received her B.A. in English, Spanish, and German Literatures and Linguistics from Hamburg University. After a year-long scholarship 在学校学习 Universidad Complutense of Madrid, she decided to pursue a career in Comparative Literature at the University 在奥斯汀的德克萨斯州. 她写了个M.A. 论文题为 Poetry of German Expressionism and the Spanish Avant-garde: Re-Contextualizing García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York and her doctoral dissertation, Writing and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film, which was published as a book by Rodopi Editorial in 2008. Dr. 艾迪很感兴趣 in the interrelations of various art forms, particularly literature, the visual arts, and film, and she loves to use a variety of media in all of her classes, from introductory language classes to advanced comparative literature classes. Having studied English, Spanish, French, Italian and Latin (in addition to her native German) at various points in her life, she is also highly interested in how languages are learned, how they are related, and in effective ways of teaching foreign languages. She has been teaching in the German, Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Humanities 项目 at the University of Dallas since 2006 and regularly teaches various classes on Foreign language pedagogy, German literature, German and Spanish language classes, a class on Teaching Classical Children’s Literature, and Great Works in the Modern World.  She was a mentor at a bilingual school in Dallas for four years and now is the faculty advisor for the Classical Curriculum team, for which she is currently writing a Latin curriculum for K-3^rd 年级.

• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
• M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin          
• B.A., University of Hamburg, Germany (major: English Literature and Linguistics, minors: German Literature and Spanish Literature, with study abroad at Universidad Complutense 马德里)

• Co-Director of Comparative Literary Traditions
• Affiliate Assistant Professor of 现代语言

Departmental Courses (offered for German, Italian, French, and Spanish credit)
3331 Applied Linguistics: Introduction to Foreign Language Pedagogy
3V32 German/French/Italian/Spanish Outreach Teaching Practicum

Comparative Literary Traditions Courses
MCT 3309 Introduction to Comparative Literary Traditions
MCT 3381 Contemporary Europe: Crossing Borders in Literature and Film
MCT 4349 Senior Honors Thesis
MCTG 3305 Introduction to German Literature

书

• Writing and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008.

文章

• "Borges' Translations of German Expressionist Poetry: Spaniardizing Expressionism." 的比较文学学者: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association 32 (2008): 115-139.
• "Poetry of German Expressionism and the Spanish Avant-garde: Re-contextualizing García 洛尔卡 Poeta en Nueva York." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38 (2004): 1-23.
• "German Unification: Concepts of Identity in Poetry from the East and West." The German Quarterly 76.3 (2003): 273-288.