Dr. Collenberg is Associate Professor of German Studies, Director of the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Testing Chair for the Oregon Association of Teachers of German, 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 volume [Moving Frames: Photographs in German Cinema | Berghahn Books, 2022]. Her current project is a co-edited volume on the literary and artistic legacy of Heinrich von Kleist.