Dr. Elizabeth Wylie-Ernst

PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1996

Director of Language Studies

1409 Cathedral of Learning
412-624-5843
Trithemius1@aol.com

Areas of Research and Teaching Focus

Applied Linguistics/Language Pedagogy

• Responsible for all TA/TF taught classes German 0001-0004
• Responsible for Proficiency and Placement Testing

Early German History and Culture to 1750

Courses Taught Recently

• Graduate Course: Teaching German
• Major Cultural Periods
• Reading Literary Texts
• Germanic Myths, Legends and Sagas
• Indo-European Folktales Professional German I
• Professional German II
• German 0004

Recent and Significant Publications and Projects

• "Using the SOPI for Testing Outcomes" PACIE Newsletter 2006
  Designed internal COPI (Computerized Oral Proficiency Interview) for baseline and outcomes testing 2006
• "Chance and Fate" in /Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature / Ed. Garry/El Shamy. M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
• "A Narrator Twice Removed: Perceptions of the Supernatural in /Njal's Saga" (Forthcoming)
• University Senate Student Affairs Committee
• Media Center Advisory Committee: Revision and updating of first-year language and Professional German text materials and syllabi
• Media Showcase/Share Fair
• Coordination of Inter-Departmental Language Department Orientation
• Global Studies Affiliate
• Visit-A-Class Outreach Programs
• German Day/ Lern Deutsch (from AY 07) and Other K-12 Outreach Activities
• Sponsor-German Club
• Conferences and workshops
• Creation of visual database for large-enrollment courses

Awards/Honors

• Bellett Award Nominee 2003, Faculty Honor Roll (3x)

Other

I completed a digital field documentary on ancient Germanic sites in northern Britain, which will be accessible from the German 1500 Web site. I continue to present workshops in the Language Media Center on the topic of communicative language learning.