Chronology - alle akademischen Jahre

Undergraduate Student:
U Pennsylvania 1979-80
U Pennsylvania 1980-81
U Pennsylvania SUM 1981
U Pennsylvania FALL1981
Work in Philadelphia SPR 1982 and SUM 1982
Ludwig-Maximilians-U München 1982-83  JYM Program 
U Pennsylvania 1983-84

Honors Bachelor of Arts in Germanic Languages and Literatures  May 1984

Work in Pittsburgh 1984-85

Graduate Student:
Pennsylvania State U 1985-86  Instructor 
Friedrich-Schiller-U Jena SUM 1986 GDR Scholarship  
Christian-Albrechts-U Kiel 1986-87 PSU Exchange Fellowship  
Pennsylvania State U 1987-88  Instructor 
U California - Berkeley SUM 1988  DAAD Scholarship  

Master of Arts with Honors in Germanic Languages and Literatures  August 1988

Pennsylvania State U 1988-89  PSU Graduate School Fellowship 
Middlebury College SUM 1989  Graduate Internship  
Pennsylvania State U 1989-90  Instructor 

PHD Doctoral Examinations May 1990

Pennsylvania State U FALL 1990  Instructor 
U Hawai'i - Manoa SPR 1991  DAAD Scholarship
Pennsylvania State U SUM 1991  Instructor
Pennsylvania State U FALL 1991  Instructor 
U Hamburg / Freie U Berlin 1992-93  DAAD Scholarship 

Concordia College SUM 1993  AATG Scholarship  
Brigham Young U 1993-94  Instructor 
Tabor Academy 1994-95  High School German Teacher 

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Languages and Literatures  May 1995

Heinrich-Heine-U Düsseldorf SUM 1995  AATG Scholarship  

Visiting Assistant Professor:
Indiana U of Pennsylvania 1995-96 

Assistant Professor:
MSUD 1996-97
SUM 1997 Goethe Institut Staufen MSU Study Abroad Program Leader
MSUD 1997-98
MSUD 1998-99
MSUD SUM 1999
MSUD 1999-2000
MSUD 2000-01  Awarded Tenure and Promoted 
MSUD SUM 2001

Associate Professor:
MSUD 2001-02
MSUD SUM 2002
MSUD 2002-03
MSUD SUM 2003
MSUD 2003-04
MSUD 2004-05
MSUD SUM 2005
MSUD 2005-06  Promoted 

Professor:
MSUD 2006-07
U Siegen 2007-08  Fulbright Senior Lecturer and Researcher / Sabbatical Leave 
MSUD 2008-09
MSUD 2009-10
SUM 2010  Waldsee German Program - Concordia Language Villages
MSUD 2010-11

MSUD 2011-12 
SUM 2012  Waldsee German Program - Concordia Language Villages
MSUD 2012-13
U Köln SUM 2013 and FALL 2013  Guest Researcher
MSUD SPR 2014
SUM 2014  Waldsee German Program - Concordia Language Villages
MSUD 2014-15
SUM 2015  WWOOFing Program in Germany
MSUD 2015-16
U Leipzig SUM 2016   DAAD-Fulbright Summer Academy Scholarship 

MSUD 2016-17 
MSUD 2017-18 
MSUD 2018-19
SUM 2019  Research in Cologne, Germany
MSUD 2019-20
MSUD 2020-21 

MSUD 2021-22
MSUD 2022-23
MSUD 2023-24
MSUD 2024-25
MSUD 2025-26