After receiving my Eidgenössisches Handelsdiplom from the KV Baselland in Switzerland, I studied Economics and Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where I received a B.A. in International Economics. I successfully defended my dissertation (thesis: A frame-semantic approach to German support verb constructions) in German Linguistics in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in April 2011. I received a Masters of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) (thesis: A Study on how Teachers form their Ideas and subsequent Models about Classroom Management) in the Department of Education at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and later a M.A. (thesis: The suffix -ei in German Noun formation) in German Linguistics in the Germanic Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at Washington & Jefferson College and a part-time faculty in the Department of German at the University of Pittsburgh.
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