Instructor of GermanDr. Wolfe teaches German language and literature courses, including beginning and intermediate German, Modern German Drama, the German Novelle, Contemporary German Culture and Society, and German Teaching Preparation. As alumni of USI's "Summer Online Institute", she helped develop beginning and intermediate German courses as distance-learning courses. In 2005, Dr. Wolfe received the H. Lee Cooper Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Core Curriculum. Sie sind uns jederzeit willkommen! |
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Wallowa Lake, Oregon Dr. Susan Smith Wolfe spent her formative years in a village of 332 inhabitants in the high mountain country of the Wallowas, in northeastern Oregon. Cours Mirabeau While completing a B.A. degree in French At Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, Dr. Wolfe spent her senior year studying at the University of Aix-Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France. During the following two years, she earned an M.A. in French Literature at the University of Oregon. Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany The Wolfes’ first child was born in Germany while Dr. Wolfe’s husband, Donald, was teaching English at a Städtische Realschule, Gevelsberg, Germany. Soon afterward, Dr. Wolfe returned to the University of Oregon, where she earned a 2nd M.A. in German Literature. Both she and her husband continued their graduate studies at the University of Bonn, West Germany, returning to Eugene to complete their doctoral studies together. It was during those years that their second child was born. Universitätsstadt Tübingen, Germany In 1982, Dr. Wolfe earned a Ph.D. in German Literature. During two of the Ph.D years, she studied at the University of Tübingen, West Germany (1978-9), and taught German to U.S. military personnel and Department of Defense employees through the University of Maryland, European Division(1979-80). Much of her dissertation research, supported through a 1978 Fulbright grant, was conducted at the Züricher Schauspielhaus, Zürich, Switzerland. |
Dr. Wolfe financed many of her university years by detecting forest fires from high forest fire lookout towers. Over 19 summers, she and her husband manned several lookouts in the Siskiyou and Deschutes National Forests of Oregon. Reichstag, Berlin, Germany In the fall of 1982, Dr. Wolfe began her university teaching career with a position she shared with her husband at Washington State University. In 1984, she was selected for a Fulbright Senior Seminar (“Landeskunde”) in Bonn-Bad Godesberg and Berlin, West Germany. |
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Chicoutimi, Québec That same year, Drs. D. & S. Wolfe responded to an advertised tenure-track position + an adjunct position at the University of Southern Indiana, where they worked side by side as colleagues until 1997. During those building years, as the German program grew from one full-time position to two, Dr. Wolfe taught both French and German courses. The summer of 1988 found her immersed in French once again, this time at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. |
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Dr.
Wolfe’s early research interests were in 20th century Germany
drama. Her dissertation explored Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimentation
with constricted space (specifically, in his confining table scenes) as a
means of forcing reluctant partners to dialogue. Analysis of the evolution
of Dürrematt’s many stage works, as he rewrote, restaged, and republished
them, lay at the heart of much of her research. She has also published
articles and presented at numerous conferences on Thomas Mann, Dürrenmatt,
Dürrenmatt/ Nietzsche, Uwe Timm and on German teaching methods.|
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