Maggie Rosenau

Education & Degree

BA, German Studies, University of Northern Colorado

MA, German Languages and Literature, Middlebury College

PhD, German Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio:

Maggie Rosenau (she/they) has over a decade of experience teaching German to language learners of various ages, abilities, and access needs. Their work aims to intervene in debates around the impact of globalization and contribute to broader contemporary initiatives in the humanities working to promote diversity and self-cultivation over profit as a motivation to learn a second language. They are dedicated to supporting students in their journeys to become informed and active globally thinking individuals.

Maggie also teaches language classes and is Learning Design Expert at ALTEC, and serves part-time at the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder. They are a member of the DDGC Mutual Aid Action Group, have a working class, refugee/immigrant family background, and are proud to be first gen. Please visit Maggie's website to read more.

Courses Taught:

Beginning German I (GRMN 1010)

Beginning German II (GRMN 1020)

Germany and the Germans (GRMN 1000)

Current German Society and Culture (GRMN 3200)

Recent Publications:

“How to Deal With a Bully: Debility, Non-Production, and Radical Care.” Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and  Collaboration in the Corporate University, eds Maria Stehle and Fatima El-Tayeb, co-authored with David Loner (forthcoming, 2021).

“Das Medium ist das Gedicht: Nichts lesen im Frühwerk Dieter Roths.” Dieter Roth: Zum literarischen Werk des Künstlerdichters, hg. v. Tomas Eder und Florian Neuner, München: edition text + kritik, (forthcoming, 2021).

“Mutual Aid in Our German Studies Communities: Why and How to do Collective Organizing and Care Work in Academia.” Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum, May 2021. Co-authored with Emily Frazier-Rath.

“Crip Currencies: Resources on Care Community Networks in the Age of COVID-19.” Digital Feminist Collective, July 2020. Co-authored with David Loner.

“Universality and the Zero Hour: Interrelationship Between the Avant-Garde, Denazification, and German-Language Literatures.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, vol. 4, no. 1, Hunan: Hunan Normal University Press, June 2020: pp. 65–85.

“Text, Textiles & Digital Technologies.” Kunst Zwischen Deckeln. The Bavarian State Library. July 2, 2019.

“MUNDUNCULUM: A Rothian Endeavor.” Roth Times: From Geometry to Decay (an Art Catalogue for Art Basel). NY: Irving Zucker Art Books, 2016: pp. 18-22.

The Book’s Undoing: Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Dir. Maggie Rosenau and Louis Zeller. UCB Libraries, 2015.