Room: R12 S04 H89
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Biographical Information

After completing his K through 12 education in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Adam Christian von Wald entered his undergraduate studies at Michigan State University. After a year abroad spent studying at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, he received his Bachelors in German studies with an additional concentration in international political economy.

The following year he was awarded a Fulbright teaching assistantship to teach English at the Willy-Brandt-Gymnasium in Oer-Erkenschwick, during which time he continued his further studies at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. In 2007, after a second year-long extension of his teaching grant and various other opportunities, he joined the language practice team here in Essen. Since then, he has completed his M.A. degree in American Studies and German Studies.

Areas of Teaching and Research

In his undergraduate studies Adam Christian von Wald focused on comparative economic systems, German language and 19th century German Romanticism. In the course of his M.A. studies, however, he turned his scholarly attention specifically to the United States of America. His Master’s thesis, entitled “Up the Social Ladder Tooth and Nail: Representations of the Myth of Success in American Naturalism at the Turn of the 19th Century”, was a New Historicist approach to a literary and cultural movement in America at the end of the 1800s. His research interests also include cultural reference in American media, the individual and the community in American ideology, and the multicultural experience in America. Adam Christian von Wald currently teaches in the areas of language practice and American cultural studies.

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