Andrea Davis
Instructor in German and French
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (French, German)
M.A. University of Missouri, Columbia (French)
Teaching interests include German and French grammar, conversation, and culture.

Professor Davis is a native of Austria and resides in Kirksville since 1991 with her husband (also teaching at Truman) and her four children. She has traveled in Switzerland, Germany, England, France and Italy. Frequent visits to Austria allow her to update the students' perspective on the ever changing, globalizing European community-- reminding them of their duty, as educated citizens, to be aware of and open to those changes. She loves and enjoys her students and the classroom. She also enjoys teaching them in real life situations: for instance, by going on a camping trip where only the foreign language is spoken, such as during the "German Immersion weekend". Her greatest aim is to instill in her students a love for foreign language-- be it German or French-- and to obtain this goal, she tries to create a lively and stimulating atmosphere in her classroom.

Staatsexamen, Magister, Ruprecht-Karl Universität Heidelberg

B.A. Fordham University

Teaching interests include: Medieval Literature with an emphasis on religious literature from the 9^th to the 12^th century, Rhetorical Tradition, Gender Studies, and Film.

As President of The Society for Medieval German Studies, Prof. Hintz edits the SMGS News & Reviews. He has written extensively on the works of the early 12^th century author, Ava, and has published articles on the psychology of paradox in late medieval romance and the rhetoric of ambiguity in the Nibelungenlied. Among his hobbies are reading New Testament Greek and exploring late antique and early medieval traditions of religious thought. He is currently researching and writing on the theme of gender and salvation in early medieval literature. He is also an active Member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He enjoys sharing life with his wife, Jeri, and doting on his two daughters Kira and Katya. For more information about SMGS please visit his webpage.

Dr. Richter's study abroad experiences have included the University of Göttingen, Germany; the University of Iceland; Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr. Richter teaches a wide variety of courses in German and linguistics. Dr. Richter’s research interests lie in translation, translation theory, and historical and theoretical linguistics. He has translated Pierrot Lunaire (1884, by Albert Giraud) from the original French (Truman State University Press), The Gate of All Marvelous Things: A Guide to Reading the Tao Te Ching from the original Chinese, as well as (with E. James Lieberman) Psychology and the Soul (Seelenglaube und Psychologie, 1931, by Otto Rank) from the original German. Dr. Richter has also translated Icelandic, Russian, and Chinese poetry. He is currently pursuing research on Tocharian and its relationship to English and other Indo-European languages. For more information on his translations, please visit his webpage.

Dr. Taylor received BA degrees in Art History and German at the University of Utah. He went on to earn the Master’s and Ph.D. at this institution. During his graduate work he obtained scholarships enabling him to pursue advanced studies at the universities of Tübingen and Toronto. He teaches all levels of German language and literature, from beginning to advanced, striving in each course to illuminate the interrelationship between language and cultural ideas and values. In both his teaching and scholarly work, he is particularly interested in the manner in which philosophical concepts inform the structure and meaning of literary works of art. His publications encompass eighteenth through twentieth century German literature, and he is presently working on a book dealing with the influence of Leibniz on eighteenth and nineteenth century German writers.