Kathleen Ibe Berube

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• BA: Secondary Education, Universität Hamburg, 2011
• MEd: Secondary Education, Universität Hamburg, 2014
• 2nd State Exam Teacher Training: Secondary Education, Senat Berlin, 2017

Specialties

• Ecocriticism
• Material Ecocriticism
• Environmental Humanities
• Second Language Acquisition
• Ecofeminism

Publications

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Publications

• Berube, Kathleen Ibe. "Review of An Ecotopian Lexicon, by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson & Brent Ryan Bellamy." Journal of Ecohumanism .

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Faculty Coordinator Assistant: Faculty Coordinator Assistant, College in the Schools program, University of Minnesota. 2023-2024
• Graduate Student Workshop: Graduate Student Workshop, Conference of the Centres for German and European Studies of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Berlin. 2023
• Campus Talk: Dialogues in the Environmental Humanities: "Narrating Earth: An Ecofeminist Approach to Non-Human-Agency", Environmental Humanities Initiative, University of Minnesota, virtual. 2023
• Conference Participation: German Studies Association: “Narrating Radioactivity and its Role in a Transnational Emergency”, German Studies Association Conference, Environmental Network Panels, Narratives of Emergence and Emergency in German Culture, Houston  . 2022
• Conference Participation: German Studies Association: “Heat and Fire as Active Agents in Seraina Kobler’s Regenschatten”, German Studies Association Conference, Environmental Network Panels, From Grassroots Action and Particle Radiation to Interminable Half-lives and Planetary Crises: Micro- and Macro-Scales in Modern Environmentalism, virtual. 2021
• Conference Participation: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment: “Nonhuman Agents Reclaiming Human Space in Karen Duve’s Regenroman”, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, Emergent Environments Stream: Bodily/Place Transformations, virtual. 2021
• Conference Participation: University of Minnesota World Languages Graduate Student Conference: "Water as Active Part of Community in Karen Duve’s Regenroman”, Interdepartmental Graduate Student Conference, virtual. 2021
• Campus Talk: Dialogues in the Environmental Humanities: "The Agency of Radioactive Particle Radiation in Christa Wolf’s Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages", Environmental Humanities Initiative, University of Minnesota, virtual. 2020
• Graduate Student Representative: Graduate Student Representative, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch. 2021-2022
• Representative for Council of Graduate Students: Council of Graduate Students, Representative for the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch. 2020-2021
• Special Events Committee: Special Events Committee, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota. 2019-2020; 2022-2023

Research

• Research Assistant: Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota. 2023-2024
• Research Assistant Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) Program: Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota: development of effective, meaningful, and motivating writing instructions by assessing and piloting writing intensive undergraduate German courses, organizing WEC workshops within the department. 2020-2023

Outreach

• College in the Schools (CIS) Program: Promotion of German language at participating High Schools in Minnesota. 2019-2020
• Outreach Committee: Outreach Committee, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota  . 2019-2020

Awards

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Awards

• Teaching Assistant Mentor Fellowship, Awarded by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch  , Fall 2021
• CLA Graduate Summer Fellowship, Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts , Summer 2020
• Hella Lindemeyer Mears Fellowship, 2019-2020
• Graduate Teaching Award, Spring 2022
• Center for German & European Studies Travel Grant, Fall 2022
• Max-Kade Fellowship, 2022-2023
• Environmental Humanities Initiative Graduate Fellowship, 2022-2023
• Hella Mears Graduate Summer Fellowship in European Studies, Summer 2022

Courses

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Courses

• German 1002: Beginning German (Fall 2020)
• German 1003: Intermediate German (Spring 2021, Summer 2021)
• German 1004: Intermediate German (Spring 2022)
• GER 3651 Thinking Environment: Green Culture, German Literature and Global Debates (Summer 2022)