- Ph.D., German Literature Education Research, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2002

Susanne Even
Clinical Professor, Germanic Studies
Language Coordinator, Germanic Studies
Clinical Professor, Germanic Studies
Language Coordinator, Germanic Studies
Susanne Even is Clinical Professor and Language Program Coordinator in Germanic Studies and co-editor of SCENARIO, the peer-reviewed, trilingual online journal for performative teaching, learning, research, and the SCENARIO book series. She trains and mentors the associate instructors in the department and is the first point of contact for pedagogical concerns. She is MAT supervisor, official CEFR examiner and faculty advisor for ICAN Service Dogs at IU. Her own service dog Oliver is her constant companion on campus.
Susanne holds a Ph.D. in German Language Teaching Research from University College Cork, Ireland, and has taught at University College Cork (Ireland), University of Leicester (UK), and in Massachusetts at MIT, Boston University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A passionate teacher and teacher educator, she writes on performative pedagogy in foreign language teaching and learning, and her book Drama Grammatik. Dramapädagogische Ansätze für den Grammatikunterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache was published in 2003. She co-authored the bilingual anthology Perfomatives Lehren Lernen Forschen – Performative Teaching Learning Research (2016) and the festschrift Lernbewegungen inszenieren (2019). Susanne specializes in innovative teaching and learning approaches and has conducted workshops at numerous universities and Goethe-Institutes in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the United States.