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EVA-MARIA RUSSO

Specialist in Foreign Language Pedagogy

Phone 314.935.5167, Fax 314.935.7255

erusso@wustl.edu

Eva-Maria Russo is a Specialist in Foreign Language Pedagogy at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in German from UCLA in 2000.

Dr. Russo is the author of “More than the Consummate Libertine? Sophie von La Roche’s Seducer Figure in Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim” (Lessing Yearbook XXXIV), "Post-War Humor in the Upper-Division German Literature Classroom" (Unterrichtspraxis 30.1-2), “Economics and Psychology: The Negation of Masculinity in Keller’s Die drei gerechten Kammacher” (Seminar, 44.1.1). She is currently at work on the revisions of a book-length project on the subject of rape and seduction in eighteenth-century German literature in which she addresses the works of Kleist, Mozart, Lessing, and H.L. Wagner in addition to La Roche. She is also preparing a presentation for the 2008 ACTFL conference on the integration of dialect into German language classrooms of all levels.

Dr. Russo’s research and teaching interests include eighteenth- through twentieth-century German literature, comparative literature, gender studies, the bourgeois tragedy, German humor, and foreign language pedagogy. She currently co-directs the German language program and is responsible for TA instruction and coordination. In addition to her years at Washington University, Dr. Russo taught in the German department at UCLA and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State, Behrend.

Office Ridgley Hall 425	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Mailbox Ridgley Hall 319

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