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Laura Eidt grew up in Germany and received her B.A. in English, Spanish, and German Literatures and Linguistics from Hamburg University. During her studies of these three separate fields, she realized how fascinating it was to find connections between the literatures (and languages) from different cultural backgrounds, and so she decided to pursue a career in Comparative Literature.
Tired of the gray sky in Hamburg, she decided for the University of Texas in Austin, where she wrote her M.A. thesis entitled "Poetry of German Expressionism and the Spanish Avant-garde: Re-Contextualizing Garca Lorcas Poeta en Nueva York" and her doctoral dissertation, "Writing and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film," which was published as a book by Rodopi Editorial in 2008. As the book title indicates, Dr. Eidt is interested in the interrelations of various art forms, particularly literature, the visual arts, and film, and she loves to use a variety of media in all of her classes, from introductory language classes to advanced comparative literature classes.
Having studied English, Spanish, French, and Italian (in addition to her native German) at various points in her life, she is also highly interested in how languages are learned, how they are related, and in effective ways of teaching foreign languages. Moreover, with two fully bilingual (and well on the way to trilingual) children, a new area of research as well as teaching interest is multilingualism and multiculturalism.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
B.A., English Literature & Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany
Published: Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008
Published in "The Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature," Association 32 (2008): 115-139.
Ashton Ellis, PhD, comes to the University of Dallas after nearly 10 years in fundraising at Hillsdale College.
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