Michael Geisler: Immersion Language Schools and German Culture
Michael Geisler
VP Language Schools, Schools Abrd, Grad Programs; Prof. of Germa
Sunderland Language Center 209
Phone: (802) 443 - 5275
Email: geisler@middlebury.edu
Topics he can discuss include: - immersion language learning
- study abroad programming
- German culture
- European-based terrorist groups and terrorism
Michael Geisler is the dean of the Middlebury College Language Schools and Schools Abroad, and the C.V. Starr Professor in Linguistics and Languages. He joined Middlebury in 1992. In addition to German language courses at all levels, Geisler teaches course on terrorism, German cinema, German mass media and German culture since World War II. Geisler has been chair of the German department, chair of the foreign languages division, director of studies at the Middlebury Mainz Program, and associate dean of humanities, arts, languages and literatures. He can address the strategic importance of foreign languages in the age of globalization.
He has recieved a number of fellowships and honors, and was the editor of the book "National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the National Narrative." He is currently at work on a book titled "Setting the Agenda for Democracy: Television and Public Discourse in (West) Germany: from 1952 to1989."
He attended Mannheim University in the former West Germany and earned his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh.
