Charlotte Melin

Publications

• Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment: Theory, Curricula, Institutional Structures. Modern Language Association, Melin, Charlotte, 2019.
• Integrative Thinking: Foreign Languages, Environmental Humanities, and STEM: Melin, Charlotte, ADFL Bulletin , 46.2, 7-10, 2021.
• Borderless Flows in Federspiel’s Die Ballade Von Der Typhoid Mary: Melin, Charlotte, Studies in 20th Century Literature, Vol. 44, Iss. 1, Article 20, 2020.
• Melin, Charlotte. "Cold War Nature: The Emergence of Hyperobjects in German Poetry." Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 43.1 (2018).
• Melin, Charlotte. "Cultivating a Poetics of Knowledge: Enzensberger’s Mausoleum, the Botanical, and the Anthropocene." Monatshefte 110.4 (2018): 600-16.
• Melin, Charlotte. "Kaschnitz, Enzensberger, and Sandig: The Ecopoetics of Water Pollution." Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 40:1 (2016): Article 2.
• Melin, Charlotte, in: Gordon Hutner and Feisal Mohamed, eds . "Speaking the Languages of the Humanities ." A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Education (2016): 101-14.
• Melin, Charlotte. "Program Sustainability through Interdisciplinary Networking: On Connecting Foreign Language Programs with Sustainability Studies and Other Fields." Transforming Postsecondary Foreign Language Teaching in the United States Ed. Janet Swaffar and Per Urlaub (2014): 103-22.
• From Frameworks to Oversight: Components to Improving FL Program Efficacy: co-author with Carol Klee, Dan Soneson, Cengage, Melin, Charlotte, AAUSC Yearbook, 131-52, 2014.
• Melin, Charlotte. "German Women’s Poetry Circa 1900: A Forgotten Anthology." The German Quarterly 87.1 (2014): 49-66.
• Melin, Charlotte, Natalie Eppelsheimer, Uwe Küchler. "Claiming the Language Ecotone: Translinguality, Resilience, and the Environmental Humanities." Resilience 1.3 (2014).
• Melin, Charlotte. With or Without: Reading Postwar German Women Poets. Northwestern University Press, 2013.
• "Climate Change: A ‘Green’ Approach to Teaching Contemporary Germany": Melin, Charlotte, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 46.2, 185-99, 2013.
• Melin, Charlotte. "‘Morgens riecht der Fluß aseptisch’: Decomposing Nature in the Anthology Laute Verse." Colloquia Germanica 44.2 (2011): 215-32.
• Melin, Charlotte. "Between the Lines: When Culture, Language and Poetry Meet in the Classroom." Language Teaching: Surveys and Studies 43.3 (2010): 349-65.
• Melin, Charlotte. "Unpacking Contemporary German Poetry: Hinsehen, Lesen, Hoeren." Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 43.2 (2010): 133-43.
• Melin, Charlotte, Cecile Zorach; 5th ed. revised by Elizabeth Kautz. English Grammar for Students of German, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th eds. Olivia and Hill Press, 2009.
• Melin, Charlotte, Glenn S. Levine, Corrine Crane, Monika Chavez, and Thomas A. Lovik. ""The Language Program Director in Curricular and Departmental Reform: A Response to the MLA Ad Hoc Report"." Profession 2008 (2008): 240-54.
• Melin, Charlotte, Co-author with Stacey Katz Bourns and Charlotte Melin. "The FL Methodology Seminar: Benchmarks, Perceptions, and Initiatives." ADFL Bulletin 43.1 : 91-100.
• Melin, Charlotte. Poetic Maneuvers: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the Lyric Genre. Northwestern University Press, 2003.
• Melin, Charlotte. German Poetry in Transition (1945-1990), a critical anthology of new translations, edited and annotated. University Press of New England, 1999.

Activities

Awards

• ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession , Award received at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention 2022 from the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), 2021

Courses

• GSD 3451, Major Project Seminar
• German 8240, 20th-Century German Literature and Culture Seminar (Poetry)
• GSD 5103 / FRITT 5999 / SPPT 5999, Common Language Methods Seminar
• German 8300/English 8090 Transatlantic Environmental Humanities
• German 3104W / Introduction to Literature, The Nature of Literature / Literature of Nature
• German 8020 / Problems in Literary and Cultural History, Ecocrticism and Nature Poetry
• German 3501 / Contemporary Germany: Food, Energy, Politics
• German 3651 / 5651 Thinking Environment: Green Culture, German Literature and Global Debates