About: Lucian Rothe is a doctoral candidate in German and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. As a native of Germany, he grew up in the Harz Mountains and studied secondary education (German as a foreign language, history, and English) at Philipps University in Marburg. In July 2015, Lucian received his Master of Arts in German Language and Literature from the University of Missouri – Columbia. He joined the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic in 2015. Lucian’s dissertation investigates how beginning learners of German describe qualities and stereotypical attributions of native speakers and teachers of German.

Lucian has taught courses in Germany and the United States, was a fellow of the DAAD in 2014-15, and received the Teaching Fellow Award from the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2019. Additionally, Lucian has worked as program assistant to the University of Wisconsin Collaborative Language Program to help improve state-wide collaborations between smaller language programs.

Graduate School Profile

Education:

- University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD German and PhD Minor in Second Language Acquisition (May 2020, expected)
- University of Missouri-Columbia, MA in German Language and Literature (2015)
- Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, Teacher Training - Secondary Education (2008-13)

Courses Taught:

- GERMAN 101: First Semester German (Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2018);
-  GERMAN 102: Second Semester German (Fall 2013, Spring 2018);
- GERMAN 203: Third Semester German (Fall 2014, Summer 2015, Fall 2017),
- GERMAN 204: Fourth Semester German (Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2019);
- Witches, Wolves, and Wanderlust: Der Harz – Germany’s Northernmost Mountain Range (Fall 2017, Fall 2018);
- Mord am Sonntagabend – Der Tatort (Fall 2016);
- Living Behind the Iron-Curtain – Leben in der DDR (Spring 2017, Spring 2019)
- Cultural History of West Germany in the 1960/70s (Fall 2012).

Awards:

Teaching Awards:

• Teaching Fellow, College of Letters and Science (2019)

Research Awards & Fellowships:

• Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship (2019)
• Graduate School Fellowship (2019-2020)
• Lynne Martin Grant, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic (2019, 2018, 2017)
• University Fellowship (2015-2016)
• Academic Excellence Award, Department of German (2015)
• Research Fellow of the DAAD Center for German and European Studies (2015)

Travel Awards:

• Travel Support Grant, the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (2019)

Selected Publications:

Book Reviews:

• Review of Aussichten A2.1 (Kurs-, Arbeitsbuch, Audio CD, DVD), Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. (accepted).
• Review of Aussichten A2.2 (Kurs-, Arbeitsbuch, Audio CD, DVD) and Integration Spezial A2 (Kursmaterial mit Audio-CD), Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. (accepted).