Gabriele Maier
Teaching Professor of German
341 Posner Hall
Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
My research includes literature of the 20th and 21st centuries and focuses primarily on travel writing, questions of home and identity, transcultural writers, and graphic novels. I have published on Christian Kracht, Hans-Ulrich Treichel and Christoph Ransmayr, among others, co-edited an anthology on Heimat (2013), and written a textbook entitled Deutschland im Zeitalter der Globalisierung (2015). Lately, I edited a volume on curriculum development and small German program building (2020) and contributed an article to the MLA Handbook Strategies and Perspectives on Social Justice Work. From 2017-2020 I was a fellow of the “How Well?“ project funded by the Center for the Arts in Society at CMU where I worked with various student groups to educate the public about food insecurity and how to improve well-being on the CMU campus.
Areas of Interest
- Questions of Heimat (home)
- Travel writing
- Transnational literature
- Wellness and well-being
- Graphic novels
Courses Taught
- 82-426: Wellness in the German-Speaking World
- 82-707: Introduction to Translation
- 82-708: Translation as a Profession
- 82-200: Careers, Cultures, and Languages
- 82-425: Vienna 1900
Selected Awards and Honors
- Elliot Dunlap Smith Teaching Award, 2019
- A.W. Mellon Grant, Carnegie Mellon University Humanities Center Lecture Series 2018, 2020-21
- Center for Arts in Society Narrative Initiative Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, 2017
- ProSEED Grant, Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016
Selected Community, University, and Professional Service
- Co-Director of the MA in Global Communication and Applied Translation
- Minor advisor for German Studies
- Study abroad advisor for German Studies
- Member of the committee of educators at the Educational Testing Service responsible for the German Praxis Series and AP exams
- Affiliated with ALC Bridge’s working committee to promote careers in the language services industry
Selected Publications
- Heimat and Migration. Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the 21st Century. Edited with Len Cagle and Thomas Herold. De Gruyter, 2021. (forthcoming)
- Outreach Strategies and Innovative Teaching for German Programs. Edited with Melissa Etzler. Routledge, 2020. (forthcoming)
- Deutschland im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. Ein Textbuch für fortgeschrittene Deutschlernende. Yale UP, 2015.
- “Migration, Displacement and Questions of Home: Graphic Novels of German- and Spanish-Speaking Worlds in Dialogue.” Co-authored with Felipe Gómez. Against Translation: Global Comics History and Memory. Ed. Harriet E.H. Earle and Martin Lund. (forthcoming)
- “Engaging Social Justice From a Transcultural Perspective: The Case of a French/German Joint Class.“ Co-authored with Sébastien Dubreil. Strategies and Perspectives on Social Justice Work. Ed. Neal Lester (forthcoming)