Walter von Reinhart
Ph.D., Brown University
Walter von Reinhart is an Associate Professor of German and Associate Director of the URI Honors Program. He is also the Academic Advisor for the German International Engineering Program. He has developed and taught specialized language courses with technical content for engineering students. His research interests in applied language pedagogy focus on German for science and technology and business German. His literary research concentrates on utopian and apocalyptic texts and on Exilliteratur. Dr. von Reinhart teaches specialized language courses for engineering students and general language courses at all levels. He also teaches a German culture course based almost exclusively on popular German songs from the 1960's to the 1990's.
At the Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik, Dr. von Reinhart teaches the second-year language course and business German. He also directs the Deutschband, a German-language rockband that performs annually at the closing night of the Sommerschule.
Publications
"German for Science and Technology: Teaching Strategies for Beginning Students." Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 34.2 (Fall 2001): 119-132.
"The Long Silence: A Moment of Hope in Heiner Müller's Macbeth." Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte 24.1 (1998): 71-85.
"Zipp-Zapp." Teaching Ideas IV: A Collection of Successful Classroom Strategies. Ed. James W. Scott. Cherry Hill: American Association of Teachers of German, 1997. 3.
"Utopie und Utopiekritik in Stefan Heyms Roman Schwarzenberg." Zeitgenössische Utopientwürfe in Literatur und Gesellschaft. Ed. Rolf Jucker. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 41. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 359 - 377.
"Connecting with the World: Using the World Wide Web in the Foreign Language Classroom." Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte 22.1 (1996): 37-50. (Refereed journal).
"A Company of Their Own: A Case-Study Approach to Teaching Business German." Handbook for German in Business and Technology. Ed. Bettina Cothran. Cherry Hill: American Association of Teachers of German, 1994. 110-133.
"The Changing Purpose of Language Instruction." Language for a Multicultural World in Transition. Ed. Heidi Byrnes. Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Reports 1992. New York: National Textbook Co., 1992. 123-169. [With Kandace Einbeck and John Grandin].
Contact Information
208 Lippitt Hall
p: 401.874.4818
f: 401.874.4694
e: waltaire@uri.edu
Office Hours
Lippitt 208
M, W, F: 8.45 - 9.45 (just walk in)
W, F: 11.00 - 12.40 (sign up in Lippitt 208)
In Roosevelt 113 B:
Th 9.00 - 12.00 (make appointment through E-Campus)
