Over the last four decades, I’ve held a number of administrative and supervisory positions. I’ve directed and coordinated workshops, academic conferences, and public cultural events.

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Directorships
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Acting Director, Center for the Study of Languages
Rice University 2001-2003
Oversaw faculty and staff of roughly 28 individuals teaching courses in 13 languages.

Program Director, Goethe-Institut Houston 1987-1992
Responsible for programming all cultural events, both within the humanities (film series, video programs, lectures, conferences, arts exhibits, concerts, theater, and dance performances), as well as in the fields of business, history, sociology, and politics. Duties included: overseeing a substantial budget; communicating with scholars, artists, critics, performers, agents, etc. on local, state, regional, national, and international levels; preparing publicity; providing in-house translation and interpretation.

Symposium Coordinator/Director, “Berlin Meets Houston, Houston Meets Berlin: Topographies of Urban Literary Experience”
Berlin/Houston 1992

Symposium Coordinator/Director, “Germany and a United Europe”
Goethe-Institut Houston 1991

Symposium Coordinator, “German-American Relations 45 Years After ’45”
Goethe-Institut Houston 1991

Symposium Coordinator/Director, “Germany United: The Shape of Things to Come”
Goethe-Institut Houston 1990

Symposium Coordinator, “Der neuere deutsche Film: Sein Weg in die Komödie”
Goethe-Institut Houston 1989

Symposium Director, “After the Avant-Garde”
School of Humanities, University of Houston 1984-1985
A unique cooperative enterprise between the university and community arts organizations, with coordinated presentations over a period of more than eight months in the areas of art, dance, music, drama, film, video, photography, literature, and architecture, together with panel discussions, lectures, workshops, readings, and interpretive exhibits. Programs explored the significance of experimental art forms through combined performance and discussion formats and included artists, writers, scholars, and critics of regional, national, and international distinction.

Symposium Coordinator, “Lone Star and Eagle”
University of Houston/Goethe-Institut Houston 1983
An international, interdisciplinary symposium on German-American and German-Texan immigration.

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Grants & Fellowships
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Travel Grants (4)
Rice University

Multimedia Project Grants (2)
Rice University

Texas Committee for the Arts Project Grants (2)
University of Houston

Limited Grant-in-Aid Publication Subvention
University of Houston

Manuscript Preparation Grant
University of Houston

Texas Committee for the Humanities Grant
University of Houston

Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant
University of Houston

Limited Grant-in-Aid Domestic Travel (2)
University of Houston

Prototype Grant Computer Intensive Environment
University of Houston

Research Initiation Grant
University of Houston

Publication Subvention Grant
University of Houston

Manuscript Preparation Grant
University of Houston

DAAD Short-Term Research Grant

Fulbright Study Grant

Limited Grant-in-Aid Foreign Travel
University of Houston

Presidential Dissertation Fellowship
The Ohio State University