FACULTY
Luke Beller, M.A.
Website: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/german/directory/graduate-students/
Luke Beller is a PhD Student studying German at Johns Hopkins University where he is also pursuing a second MA in Philosophy. He received his first MA in German Studies (2020) and BA in Classics (2015) at California State University of Long Beach. His dissertation project is focused on the concept of sociability in late-eighteenth-century political and aesthetic philosophy and dramatic practice. He has published on the philosophical concept of cosmopolitanism, democracy in Bertolt Brecht’s writings, and is currently working on publications concerning Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetics. His broader interests include the concept of beauty in ethics and politics, the history of tragedy, the intersections between ancient and Enlightenment thought, politics and literature of revolution, eighteenth-twentieth century moral philosophy, and the political trajectories of the U.S. and Germany. He was lucky enough to be a student at the DSaP in 2018 and is both excited and honored to return this year as teacher and resident assistant.
Carrie Collenberg-González, Ph.D.
Website: https://www.pdx.edu/profile/carrie-collenberg-gonzalez
Dr. Collenberg is Associate Professor of German Studies, Director of the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, and the Northwest Representative for the American Association of Teachers of German. She specializes in 19th- and 20th-Century German Literature and Cinema, critical pedagogy, and teaching German as a foreign language. Her publications include articles on the aesthetic representation of German terrorism, on German film, on the reception of Heinrich von Kleist, and on Goethe's Faust. She is a co-author of Cineplex (Hackett, 2014), a second-year textbook on learning German language and culture through film, and the co-edited volumes Moving Frames: Photographs in German Cinema (Berghahn Books, 2022) with Martin Sheehan and Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies (Brill 2024) with Jeffrey L. High.
Apollo Fernweh, B.A.
Apollo is a recent graduate of Portland State University, earning his bachelors in German back in 2021. Since graduating he has returned to PSU to pursue a degree in music education so he can professionally teach choir. For the past three years he has been teaching music through Impact NW‘s SUN program at Marysville Elementary School, led multiple choir adjacent groups at the Parey Center For Children, was a clinician at this year's OMEA conference, and made his conducting debut with the mentorship of Grammy nominated music educator Coty Raven Morris at this year's ACDA conference. Apollo strongly believes in the beauty of community that is built through choral singing and is beyond excited to bring that passion to this year's DSaP!
Jeffrey High, Ph.D.
Website: https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/rgrll/faculty-and-staff/jeffrey-l-high/
Jeffrey L. High is Professor in the German and Comparative and World Literature sections at California State University, Long Beach and will be teaching his twenty-fourth consecutive summer at an immersion school in 2024. He is the recent recipient of the CSULB awards for the Honors Program’s “Most Valuable Professor” (2019), “Distinguished Faculty Advising Award” (2020), “Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Student Engagement in Research” (2020), and “Outstanding Club Advisor” (2022). Professor High is the author or co-editor of numerous articles and books, including Schiller’s Literary Prose Works (2011), Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Political Legacies (2014), Inspiration Bonaparte? German Culture and Napoleonic Occupation (2021), Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Philosophical Paradigms (2022), Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies (2024), and Thomas Mann: Listen Germany! Anti-Fascist Radio Addresses 1940–1945 (forthcoming 2024).
Quote: “The German Summer School of the Pacific is where we can get the most possible serious work done while laughing.”
John H.G. Scott, Ph.D.
Website: http://www.johnhgscott.com/
John H. G. Scott is Lecturer of German at University of Maryland, College Park and Adjunct Assistant Professor of German at University of Calgary and has taught at universities since 2006, including two summer immersion programs in Krefeld, Germany. His second language acquisition research focuses on how adults learn foreign speech sounds and patterns, with his most recent work investigating interactions between novel speech sound categories and novel spelling patterns at early stages of exposure. Dr. Scott is the creator of Baldung, the artificial Germanic language featured in the Netflix series Archive 81 (2022), and is an active member of the Language Creation Society. His teaching interests include the cognitive and pedagogical needs of beginning language learners, Decolonization and Indigenization of German language education in North America, and critically exploring interactions between language and society, such as linguistic rights and linguistic hegemony, language standardization, and language construction. Dr. Scott looks forward to exploring the German language in its cultural context with the Sommerschule in the PNW stomping ground of his youth.
Rebecca Stewart-Gray, Ph.D.
Website: https://cord.academia.edu/RebeccaStewart
Rebecca Stewart-Gray is visiting assistant professor of German in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Stewart-Gray earned her PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation entitled “Theory and Practice of Sublime Vulnerability in the Works of Friedrich Schiller” in May 2023. In addition to her work in German Studies, she works as a musicologist, translator, and event curator affiliated with the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices. She has published on Schiller, Kleist, Austrian anti-Napoleonic poet Heinrich Joseph von Collin, and suppressed composer Erwin Schulhoff, and is the coeditor of Heinrich von Kleist: Literary and Philosophical Paradigms with Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen (Camden House, 2022). She has taught and directed choirs at Sommerschulen since 2014 and is thrilled to return to the DSaP remotely this summer while she completes a research project on the topic of race and gender on the eighteenth-century stage in Weimar, Germany.
Brandy E. Wilcox, Ph.D.
Website: https://www.brandyewilcox.com
Brandy E. Wilcox is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Knox College in Illinois. There, she teaches classes ranging from "German Fairy Tales in Context" and "Public Art and Protest" to "Dungeons, Dragons, and Deutsch." Dr. Wilcox is a theater lover, and has starred and assisted in multiple theatrical productions in both German and English. She recently received the "Best Article Award" from the Brothers Grimm Society of North America for her German Quarterly article on sexuality and deceit in adaptations of the Grimm's "Rapunzel." In her free time she enjoys performing and playing trumpet with the Forward! Marching Band in Madison, WI.