Curriculum Vitae

Folke-Christine Möller-Sahling was born in Hamburg, Germany. After finishing her "Abitur" at the Gymnasium Quickborn in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, she completed her B.A. degree in Comparative Literature at Hamilton College in New York in 1993. Then she earned an M.A. degree in German Studies from the University of Vermont, and in 2002 she received her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University. Since 2001, she has been an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Southern Indiana (USI).

In the past Professor Möller-Sahling has conducted research in areas including women's writing and gender studies, Holocaust literature, Eighteenth-century literature, and German-American studies. She is currently pursuing further research related to feminist theory and epistolary literature of the Eighteenth-century. These focal points, as well as her strong interest in interdisciplinary studies, were also the basis for her dissertation, "Unfaithful Messengers: The Epistolary Discourse of Love around 1800". Beyond her dissertation, Professor Möller-Sahling's publishing record reflects her interest in a variety of topics with interdisciplinary emphasis. As an example of her interest in German-American studies, she published a book chapter in of 2001 on a Jewish author from Frisia, Meta Schoepp. She is currently revising a paper for publication with John Benjamins Publishing House (Amsterdam/New York) on "Intimacy and Communication in the Correspondence of Sophie Mereau and Clemens Brentano". Dr. Möller-Sahling has had the opportunity to present her research on a range of topics both nationally and internationally, at conferences in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.

At the University of Southern Indiana, Dr. Möller-Sahling teaches German language and literature courses including Business German, Modern German Drama, German Poetry, and a course on German Popular Culture. She is also a faculty member associated with the Humanities program. Through this program, she regularly teaches an interdisciplinary humanities course called "'Power and Passion: Women and Men.' Survey of Western Tradition" (HUM 212). In the Fall of 2003, Dr. Möller-Sahling participated in the Oral Proficiency Tester Training Workshop at the ACTFL convention in Utah. As recent alumni of USI's "Summer Online Institute", Dr. Susan Smith Wolfe, Professor of German, and Dr. Möller-Sahling are now also teaching beginning and intermediate German courses as distance-learning courses, starting in the Fall of 2003.

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