Julia Feldhaus

Lecturer in STEM German and Director of iSTEP

Julia Feldhaus teaches STEM German and directs the international Science Technology & Engineering Programs (iSTEP). She also has expertise in pedagogy, psychology, and fine arts. The main focus of her research is images of the New Woman during the Weimar Republic.

Education

PhD German, 2010, Rutgers University

MA German, 2007, Rutgers University

Staatsexam Gymnasium, 2004, University of Osnabrück

Research Areas

• Fairy Tales
• Gender
• Weimar Republic
• Pedagogy

Publications

"Applying Makeup -- A Social Need or a True Art Form?  The Aesthetic Pursuit of the New Woman in Vicki Baum's Pariser Platz 13," Germanistik in Ireland 11 (2017).

"Not without My Mommy:  The New Woman's Mother Figure in Irmgard Keun's Novels Gilgi- eine von uns (1931) and Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932)" Monatshefte 108 (2016).

Courses Recently Taught

• German 310: Advanced German I
• German 111: STEM-German I
• German 121: STEM-German II
• German 231: Advanced STEM-German III
• German 241: Advanced STEM-German IV