Phone: (616) 526-6365
Email: carv@calvin.edu

University of Freiburg, Germany
Staatsexamen in German and French: University of Hamburg, Germany
Ph.D. University of Toronto, Canada

Research Interests
German literature of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, foreign language methodology and pedagogy from a Christian perspective, cross-cultural communication

Teaching Areas
Elementary, intermediate, and advanced German language, German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foreign language methodology, German Interim Abroad

Background
A native of Germany, I took my degrees at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg in the Federal Republic, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and at the University of Toronto. I taught French at Trinity College, Deerfield, Illinois, Latin, French and German at the Toronto District Christian High School and have been teaching German at Calvin College since 1978. I am a curriculum consultant for The English Language Institute (ELI) and have served as the president of the North American Christian Foreign Language Association (NACFLA).

Books
Der verführte Leser: Johann Karl August Musäus' Romane und Romankritiken. Canadian Studies in German Language and Literature 31, New York: Lang (1985).

Listen and Speak: A Methodology Handbook for Chinese English Teachers (co-authered with Helen Westra) ELIC (1993) (2nd. rev. ed. 1994).

Teaching Notes, a Supplement to Listen and Speak. (co-authered with Helen Westra) ELIC, (1993,1994).

The Gift of the Stranger: Faith, Hospitality and Foreign Language Learning (co-authored with David I. Smith), Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Articles
'Die Christenheit oder Europa: eine Predigt.' Seminar, Journal for Germanic Studies XII (1976): 73-88.

'Johann Karl August Musäus' in Schriftsteller im Portrait, 2nd ed. Beck: München, (1980): 134-135.

'Iser the Exegete', Dialogue, (1980), 10-11.

'Hommage à Cézanne: The Blind News Vendor in Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge.' in Rilke and the Visual Arts, ed.Frank Baron, Coronado Press (1982): 61-72.

'Internationalizing the Curriculum in the Foreign Languages.' in Internationalizing the Curriculum, The Christian College Consortium (1987): 123-130.

'Johann Karl August Musäus' in Deutsche Dichter, Reclam Verlag, vol. 3 (1988): 294-299.

'Musäus, Johann Karl August' in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 97 (1990): 213-127.

'Karl Wilhelm Rabener', in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 97 (1990): 227-217.

'Foreign Language Education: A Christian Calling.' Christian Educators Journal, 30(3) (1991): 28-29.

'Teaching Culture from a Christian Perspective: Is it Any Different?' NAACFLLF Proceedings Journal, 1 (1991): 13-18. Reprinted in Language in God's World. (Eastwood, Nottingham U K.) 9 (1993): 5-9.

'Against Guessing: Some Observations on Recent Reading Strategies in Foreign Language Education' NAACFLLF Proceedings Journal 2 (1992): 113-119. Reprinted in Language in God's World 14, 3-8.

'Schwierigkeiten beim Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung' (co-othered with Edward Weintraut) in Die Veränderungen in Deutschland. Landeskundliche Materialien. Goethe Institut Atlanta and AATG (1993): 48-90.

'Grammar in Foreign Language Instruction' in: New Trends:An Advanced Reader for ESL- Methodology in China, ed. Carolyn Dirksen, ELIC (1994): 54-61.

'Wounded by the Father: Father-Daughter Relationships in Some Recent Texts by German Women Writers.' NAACFLLF Proceedings Journal 4 (1994): 141-158.

'Presidential Address.' Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages 3 (2002):76-83.

Book Reviews
Dieter Saalmann, Ein Würfelwurf ins Absolute in: Modern Austrian Literature, 10, (1977).

Horst Günther (ed), Insel Almanach auf das Jahr 1981. Karl Philipp Moritz. Wer ist das? in: Lessing Yearbook, XIII (1982).

Marvin Bragg, From Gottsched to Goethe: changes in the social Function of the Poet and Poetry. in: Lessing Yearbook XXI (1986).

Helmut Pfotenhauer, Literarische Anthropologie: Selbstbiographien und ihre Geschichte. in: Lessing Yearbook, XIX (1990).

Andreas Lixl-Purcell, Stimmen eines Jahrhunderts 1888-1990: Deutsche Autobiographien etc. in Modern Language Journal, 77 (1993): 116-117.

Jürgen Weidmann's Unterrichtsmodelle für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, München: Max Hueber, 1992 in Modern Language Journal, 77 (1993): 552.

Gernot Häublein et al. MEMO: Wortschatz- und Fertigkeitstraining zum Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache, und MEMO:Lernwortschatz Deutsch-Englisch, Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1995 in Modern Language Journal, 80 (1996): 419.