Alyssa Bryl
Credentials: German
Position title: Graduate Student
Email: bryl@wisc.edu
Address:
Languages: German, Polish, Russian, Spanish
Pronouns: She/her
About: Alyssa is a PhD student in the German Department with a doctoral minor in history. She is interested in Austrian history, culture, and sociolinguistics. In her doctoral research, Alyssa focuses on interwar Vienna, the legacy of Red Vienna, and the Wiener Gemeindebauten. She is motivated to explore how aspects of memory and history are transmitted or obscured via public spaces and memorials in Vienna.
After completing her Bachelor’s, Alyssa taught in many schools in western Styria and Vienna, Austria as a Fulbright teaching assistant. Her master’s thesis examined public perceptions of language prestige in Vienna and how expanding the foreign language offerings in the Austrian public school system could benefit students with a migration background. Before re-joining the German Department at UW, she was a German instructor at two language schools in central Mexico.
Education:
– University of Wisconsin-Madison – Ph.D. student (since 2022)
– University of Vienna – M.A. in German as a Second and Foreign Language
– University of Wisconsin-Madison – B.A. in German and International Studies, Minor (Certificate) in European Studies
Courses Taught:
UW-Madison:
– German 204 (Spring ‘24), German 203 (Fall ’23, Fall ’22)
Other institutions:
– German A1.1, A1.2, A2.1, B1.2
Awards:
– Fulbright-Mach research grant, Vienna, Austria (2024-2025)
– Kosciuszko Foundation, Chylinski I Scholarship (2025-2025)
– Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Michael Kaplan Graduate Research Award in Jewish Civilization (2024)
– Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Charles and Gayle Mazursky Award (2024)
– Botstiber-Institute for Austrian-American Studies (2024)
– Austrian Cultural Forum New York (2023)
– NAWA Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange and Uniwersytet Wrocławski¬ (2023)
– Polanki Polish Women’s Cultural Club of Milwaukee, Balcerczak Memorial Award (2023)
– Graduate School Fellowship, UW-Madison (2023)
– Summer Academic Excellence Scholarship Award, UW–Madison (2022)
– Fulbright Austria, Teaching Assistantship (USTA) (2014-2015)
– Fulbright Austria, Teaching Assistantship (USTA) (2013-2014)