- Ph.D., German Literature Education Research, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2002
Susanne Even
Clinical Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Language Coordinator, Germanic Studies
Clinical Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Language Coordinator, Germanic Studies
foreign language pedagogy; innovative teaching and learning approaches; performative pedagogy; intercultural and multilingual competence, bilingual novels, and curriculum development for higher education
Susanne Even is Clinical Associate Professor and Language Program Coordinator in Germanic Studies and co-editor of SCENARIO, the peer-reviewed, bilingual online journal for drama and theater in foreign language education. She trains and mentors the associate instructors in the department and is the first point of contact for pedagogical concerns. She holds a Ph.D. in German Language Teaching Research from University College Cork, Ireland, and has taught at University College Cork, University of Leicester in Great Britain, and in Massachusetts at MIT, Boston University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A passionate teacher and teacher educator, she writes extensively 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. Recently, she co-authored the bilingual anthology Perfomatives Lehren Lernen Forschen – Performative Teaching Learning Research (2016). She 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. She was named 2013 Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Foreign Languages Teachers’ Association, German Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Chapter of AATG, and received (together with editor Manfred Schewe) the European Language Label (ELL) Award for SCENARIO.