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Mona Eikel-Pohen

Mona Eikel-Pohen

Mona Eikel-Pohen

Pronouns: she/her and sie/ihr
Associate Teaching Professor, German; Modern Foreign Language Coordinator

CONTACT

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
334 HB Crouse Hall
Email: meikelpo@syr.edu

PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS

German language Literature and Culture
Modern Foreign Languages

Office Hours

Fridays 11 am to 1 pm and by appointment

Degrees

  • Doctoral degree from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany in Modern German Literature (2009)
CV

Courses Taught

  • GER 101 Beginners’ German I
  • GER 102 Beginners‘ German II
  • GER 201 Intermediate German III
  • GER 202 Intermediate German IV
  • GER 300 Intro to German Literature
  • GER 357 Contemporary German Culture
  • GER 378 German Literature since World War II
Biographic Overview

Dr. Mona Eikel-Pohen's teaching experiences range from elementary to advanced German. She employs a wide array of engaging and participatory methods and strategies that instill student confidence in their language use and curiosity with an emphasis on German culture and literature of the 20th and 21st century.

Research and Teaching Interests

Mona Eikel-Pohen’s research includes pedagogies of democracy and agency, language teaching with creative methods (improvisation and creative writing) based in neuroscience, as well as self-translation and identity.

Research Specializations

Pedagogies of participation, instructional design, foreign language teaching methods

Conferences

ACTFL, Getvico, MLA, NeMLA, NYSAFLT

Memberships

ACTF, AATG, GSA, MLA, NeMLA, NYSAFLT

Career

  • Wells College, Aurora, New York, 2014-2015
  • Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, 2012-2015
Books
Publications

Reviews

  • Peter Weiss, Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II. A novel. Translated by Joel Scott, 2022 (under review)
  • Priscilla Layne. White Rebels in Black. German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture. U of Michigan P, 2018. ix + 259 pp. to STTCL Studies of 20th and 21st Century Literature. https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol45/iss1/15/

Translations

  • Das Buch der Sirenen from The Book of Sirens by ProEnglishTheater/ ArtShelter, Kyiv, performances in Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, July 2022
  • The Voices Project: Mental Health, ed. Alicia Nordstrom, 2018
  • Fucked up, or The Rest is Silence (drama by Nike Meerwoldt, 2020)
  • Sprachlos. No Tonue/Sin Lengua (drama by Ely Rosa Zamora, 2009)
  • Schopenhauers Vermächtnis (lecture by Frederick Beiser, Spring 2019)

Honors and Awards

  • ACTFL Small Undergraduate German Program Special Interest Group Award for Outstanding German Program Development and Advocacy 2021
  • Anthony J. Papalia Award, New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers for the article Awareness and agency through rubrics: Co-created evaluation rubrics for projects on forced migration in a German culture and civilization course, September 2021.
  • Gerlinde Ulm Sanford Award for Loyalty, Dedication, and Valuable Contribution to the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University, April 2021.
  • Innovative teaching initiative award with Catherine Nock: Using performance-based methods to reinforce oral skills. A holistic methodology based on neuroscientific research. Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University, May, 2020.
  • Writing across the Curriculum Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, May 2020.
  • Assessment Leadership Institute Stipend, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, Summer 2019.

Center for Disability Resources Award 2017.