Bio

Stanford Bing Overseas Studies, H.G. Will Center Berlin

• Since 1984: Director

• 1979 – 1983: Acting Director

• Since 1979: Lecturer

• Appointment is both academic and executive. My teaching and research concern German theater, film, and cultural studies.

Education

• Ph.D. in German Studies, Stanford University, 1984.

• Magister Artium in Philosophy, Comparative Literature and North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 1976.

• B.A. in English Literature, Stanford University, 1969.

• High School Diploma, Dominguez High School, Compton CA, 1963.

Interviews

• "Performing Berlin. The Theater and Dance Scenes," (Zooom Webinar), Stanford BOSP, April 14, 2021.

• "The Berlin Music Scene," (Zoom Webinar), Stanford BOSP, March 4, 2021.

• "Berlin Calling” (Zoom Webinar), Stanford BOSP, Nov. 10, 2020.

• "'Die Luft der Freiheit weht': Eine Lange Nacht über die kalifornische Stanford University," by Fabian Goppelsöder, Deutschlandfunk, 16 Feb. 2019.

• "Go East," video by Peter Dollé, Stanford BOSP, June 2012.

• "Live and Learn at Stanford in Berlin," video by Peter Dollé, Stanford BOSP, Aug. 2009.

• "Remembering the Day the Berlin Wall Fell," Stanford Report, Nov. 9, 2009.

• "Garten und Haus als "engverschmolzenes Ganzes," by Silvia Meixner, Die Welt, Sept. 9, 2000.

• Apple Age, Nr. 6, 1989, S. 32-35.

• Spandauer Volksblatt, 7 Juni 1989.

• Stanford Observer, Nov. 1989.

• Berliner Morgenpost, 14 Feb. 1984.

Federal Distinguished Service Medal of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), 2002.