Phone: (616) 526-6804
Email: hermdevr@calvin.edu

B.A. Calvin College, Major: German 1988
M.A. German (UC) 1990
Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati (UC) 1996 (Dissertation: "Nicolaus Selnecker's Psalter Commentary (1565): A Documentary Study on Psalm Versification")

Research Interests
Early-modern German literature; German Enlightenment; current trends in the Dutch language.

Teaching Areas
Dutch and German language, German literature Romanticism, 18th-20th century.

Background
NACFLA member

Articles / Essays
“Classroom Devotions in the Foreign Language Course: Possibilities for Effecting Change in Student Motivation and Attitude.” Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages 3 (2002): 10-30.

“Is the Dutch Language Threatened by English?” Dutch International Society Magazine 32.1 (2000): 9-15.

“Sunday Invocabit,” Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (March 2000): 3.

“The EUROTECH Module: A Curricular Innovation for German Instruction.” Foreign Language Annals 30.3 (1997): 369-377. Co-authored with Richard P. Long.

“Nicolaus Selnecker and Visual Portrayal of the Psalmist.” DAPHNIS: Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur 4 (1996): 33-51.

Book Reviews
Anker, Robert. Een soort Engeland (Amsterdam: Querido, 2001). World Literature Today. Forthcoming.

Busch & Miersemann, eds. “Geist=reicher” Gesang: Halle und das Pietistische Lied (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997). Forthcoming in Lessing Yearbook, vol. 31.

Vierhaus, Rudolf. Was war Aufklärung? (Göttingen: Wallstein, 1995). Lessing Yearbook 30 (1998): 263-264.

Kröger, Wolfgang. Literaturwissen für Schule und Studium (Stuttgart: Reclam 1995). Lessing Yearbook 29 (1997): 212-215.

Rippley, Lavern J. German-Bohemians (St. Olaf 1995). Yearbook of German-American Studies 30 (1995): 172-173.

Fuchs, Guido. Psalmdeutung im Lied (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 1993). In The Sixteenth-Century Journal 26 (1995) 702-703.

Timm, Uwe. Erzählen und kein Ende. In Focus on Literatur 2.1 (1995): 77-79.

Eckardt, Jo-Jacqueline. Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the Critics: 1779-1991 (Camden House 1993). In Lessing Yearbook 26 (1994): 143-145.

Schroeder, Bernd. Versunkenes Land. In Focus on Literatur 1.1 (1994): 62-64.

Roeber, A.G. Palatines, Liberty, and Property (Johns Hopkins 1993). In Yearbook of German-American Studies 29 (1994): 168-170.

Books, Journals, and Newsletters edited
EUROTECH Newsletter (UConn) vols. 1 (1996) & 2 (1997) 16 pp.

Assistant Editor, Focus on Literatur: a journal for German-language literature 2.1 (1995) 124 pp.

Assistant Editor, Focus on Literatur 1.2 (1994) 122 pp.

Editor, Focus on Literatur 1.1 (1994) 110 pp.

Editorial assistant, Lessing Yearbook 25 (1993) 306 pp.

Translations
Co-translated narrated texts for Oberon, King of the Elves: A Romantic Opera in Three Acts. By Carl Maria von Weber. New Stage Directions by Gustav Mahler. Narrated texts by Claus H. Henneberg.

Interviews
"Gespräch mit Uwe Timm," In Focus on Literatur 2.1 (1995): 101-112.

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