Susanne M. Wagner
Dr. Susanne M. Wagner received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining the UALR faculty in 2008, she held teaching positions at UMass Amherst, The Citadel, and Agnes Scott College. Dr. Wagner is a German cultural and literary historian focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany with a research emphasis on resistance literature, particularly resistance to National Socialism. Other research interests include German popular culture, and the implementation of drama pedagogy into the foreign language classroom. Dr. Wagner has recently reintroduced the intensive German language classes to the German Studies program and looks forward to offering seminars on such topics as WWII and resistance to Hitler, biographies of Holocaust survivors, and exile literature. She is also in the process of incorporating a study abroad option for students in Germany and will take the first group abroad in the summer 2010.
Dr. Wagner is the vice president of the Arkansas chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), a teacher trainer with the Goethe Institute, the academic advisor of the UALR German club, and the organizer of the 2009 UALR German Studies Symposium: Perspective, Progress, and Promise: After the Berlin Wall: 20 Years of German Reunification. She is an active member in the community, holds teacher trainer workshops, and regularly presents at regional and national conferences.
In her spare time, Dr. Wagner enjoys training her dog Glück to become a service dog and honing her skills in ballroom dancing [her own skills, not the dog’s!]. It’s a shame there are no competitive ballroom dance teams in Little Rock.