WELCOME to my homepage!
My
name is Christina Voss. I am a language arts instructor from
Duesseldorf, Germany, and work as a lecturer in the English Department
of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC).
I received my diploma (B.A. and M.A.) as a translator for English and French (with the side-subject Technology) from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim,
Germany, in 1998, and my PhD in English from the same university in
2003. Under the following link to the search engine of ArchiMeD, the
online publications of the University of Mainz, you can view my
dissertation, The Universal Language of Freemasonry.
Click on "Suche in der Datenbank" (Search the Data Bank), and enter my
name in the field for "Person," and "2003" in the field for "Jahr"
(year). This will take you to the bilingual abstract, and the pdf file
of the dissertation written in English.
In the Fall term of 1996, I was an Erasmus fellow at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, and in the Fall term of 1997, I was an exchange student at SIUC.
From
May 2006 until August 2007, I completed the Master of Arts in Teaching
program (Curriculum & Instruction) at SIUC, in order to become an
Illinois high school teacher for German, with an endorsement in
English and French.
From August 22, 2006 through May 11th, 2007 I was a student teacher at Carbondale Community High School in the 5 English classes of Dr. Justin Dennis, and in the German III/IV honors class of Mrs. Lorinskas.
Since
Fall 2007, I have been teaching in the English department as a Graduate
Assistant and lecturer. Those are my former and present courses:
ENG101, ENG102, ENG290, ENG300-1, and ENG300-2. I also used to work in
the Writing Center as a tutor and administrative assistant.
Presently,
I am enrolled in the doctoral program in Curriculum & Instruction
at SIUC, with the specialty area of Reading and Language Studies.
My extra-curricular activities are music, hiking, horse races, traveling, photography, and breeding/selling leopard geckos.