Ingrid Zeller is a Senior Lecturer in the German Department. She studied music at the Manhattan School of Music and completed graduate degrees in German Language and Literature at Columbia University in New York City. At Northwestern University, she has taught courses at all levels, coordinated Beginning and Intermediate German, and is developing and coordinating the German Department Writing Center. She was selected to the ASG Faculty Honor Roll for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, and received the Northwestern Alumni Association Teaching Award in 2005.

Ingrid’s teaching and research interests include:
1) Film and architecture in metropolitan cities. Her third year writing courses Berlin: Faces of the Metropolis and East and West: Identities in Flux – German, European, and Transcontinental Perspectives feature units on recent films and on architecture in Berlin and Chicago. She has co-produced (with Denise Meuser and Franziska Lys) Bauhaus and Beyond, a series of web-based, interactive videos of a German architecture tour in Chicago, and she is documenting the history of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin.
2) Intersections between music, culture, literature, performance, and language acquisition. In 2007, she is pioneering the freshman seminar Music, Magic, and Language, a cultural studies course with a focus on music in German history as represented through and in relation to different media. She has organized interdisciplinary, student-driven musical events (Musikabend 2004, Musikabend 2005 – Weimar Variations, Musikabend 2006 – Magical Encounters in Vienna, and Musikforum 2007- Sospiro Winds: A distinctly German-American Ensemble) and co-designed the course German through Opera (2002).
3) The meaningful integration of a “Lernort” in the curriculum resulting in student projects, such as architectural tours in German and trips to musical events.
4) An exploration of Passages across Cultures. In the summer of 2006, Ingrid received a stipend to participate in the AATG Workshop in Bremen and Bremerhaven with a focus on the topic of immigration; she has also received grants to study the effects of the Wende in Leipzig and Berlin via the Goethe-Institut. In the summer of 2007, she participated in the Goethe-Institut seminars Berlin Heute and Zukunftswerkstatt Berlin.

Also at Northwestern University, Ingrid is serving as freshman adviser, as a fellow for Chapin Hall and a member of the Council on Language Instruction (CLI). She is active in the Northern Illinois Chapter of the American Association for Teachers of German (AATG) and recently completed her second term as Chair for Testing and Awards. She is a trainer for the Goethe-Institut Chicago.

Publications include articles on films, music, architecture, and drama in the context of language acquisition.

Curriculum Vitae

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