 Sigrid
Berka has a Staatsexamen in German Literature,
Philosophy, and Education from RWTH Aachen (1986), and a PhD in
German Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara
(1990). As Assistant Professor of German Studies she taught 19th
and 20th century literature and culture courses at Barnard
College and Columbia University (1990-1996). Her book Mythos-Theorie
und Allegorik bei Botho Strauss came out in 1991. She also
co-authored an intermediate text book for German language,
Spiralen, has written many articles on German and Austrian
Austrian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
As coordinator of the MIT-Germany Program, she started
building up this newly launched internship program in 1996 which
places about 35 students each year for 3-12 month internships in
German companies and research institutes. Within MISTI, the MIT
International Science and Technology Initiatives, she has helped
bring the MIT-Italy and the MIT-France Program on their way in
their initial stages. She has been teaching Freshman Seminars on
comparative literature and culture, has served on MIT’s
Fulbright committee and is liaison to the DAAD. Since 2003 she
has been serving as the MIT-Germany Program’s Managing Director
of Intern Placement and Industrial Relations, responsible for
budgeting and reconciling program accounts, for organizing
recruiting events and workshops for sponsor companies, and for
helping the director in fundraising efforts.
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