Mellon Assistant Professor of German
Teaching Assistant Supervisor
PhD | University of Virginia
MA, M.A.h.c.| Indiana University
MA | Universität Erlangen
Dissertation: “Faces: Maps, Masks, Mirrors, Masquerades in German Expressionist Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts”
professional honors
• National Fulbright Selection Committee
• Vanderbilt in Berlin summer program
• German Film Society at Vanderbilt
• Director, Goethe-Institut Test Center, Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt Alumni Classic Rhine Cruise, Vanderbilt Faculty Lecturer
• Provost’s Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning with Technology
• Faculty Senate Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Virginia
• Mellon Foundation Summer Dissertation Fellowship
• Research Grant, Robert Gore Rifkind Scholar-in-Residence , Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Teaching Assistant: University of Virginia and Indiana University
• Visiting lecturer, German and American Studies, University of Dortmund, Germany
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
professional societies
• American Association of Teachers of German (Standing Committee: German for Business & Engineering)
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• American Translators Association
• German Studies Association
• International Brecht Society
• Modern Language Association
• Women in German
• Modern Austrian Literature
• Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association
contact information
Furman 127
Phone: 343-0404
peggy.setje-eilers@vanderbilt.edu
