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Andrea Feldman received her PhD in Cognitive Linguistics, specializing in Language Acquisition, from ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder in 1998, and joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ faculty in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric the following year. She holds two BA’s in Spanish and Linguistics from Cornell University. After serving as a Fulbright in Asia fellow in Japan, she received two MA’s in Linguistics and Japanese from Cornell University. She directed the Washington Academy of Language Center at the University of Puget Sound Seattle Campus for seven years prior to moving to Boulder.

Her academic interests include first and second language acquisition, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and cross-cultural rhetoric. Her publications and national conference presentations are in the areas of linguistics, second-language writing, and cross-cultural rhetoric. Her research focuses on global literacy and second language writing. She is interested in building community among monolingual and multilingual writers. In addition, Feldman works in the area of service learning and civic engagement. Specifically, she conducts workshops and conferences on immigrant integration and international students, efforts to connect workers, students, and faculty on campus. Current research focuses on digital literacy especially as it relates to first and second language acquisition.

She initiated and continues to coordinate the Program for Writing and Rhetoric’s ESL program in scientific and professional writing. In addition to teaching multilingual and professional writing courses in the PWR, Andrea teaches Honors writing courses and has served on over 50 honors thesis committees. Active in faculty governance, she has served as Boulder Faculty Assembly Diversity Committee Chair, Chair of the Chancellor’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity, and Foundations of Excellence Diversity Committee Chair. Feldman received the Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy in 2018.

Saskia Hintz holds a teaching certificate ("Staatsexamen") in German, Danish and Education from Pädagogische Hochschule Flensburg/Germany and a PhD in German from New York University. She joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder faculty in 2007. Her teaching experience includes language classes on all levels of instruction as well as culture and literature classes and Business German.

In her research she explores innovative approaches to teaching literature, culture, and particularly creative writing and visual art in the foreign language classroom and she has organized and presented workshops at the ACTFL/AATG, CCFLT and NECTFL conferences as well as for the Goethe Institute’s Trainer Networks Chicago and San Francisco. Her additional teaching and research interests are children's literature, radio-plays, poetry and short films and their use in the German classroom as well as creative uses for new technologies. Other teaching and teacher training topics include migration, social justice and the environment.

She directs the regional Goethe Institut Examination Center housed in the department of GSLL and is a tester of the Goethe Institute exams Goethe-Zertifikat B1, B2 and C1. She also is a Professional Development Consultant for the American Association of Teachers of German. 

Karen Ramirez is Assistant Director for Humanities & Arts in the Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program (MASP), which supports underserved students in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Dialogues Program, which facilitates dialogues in ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ classes across the curriculum. Ramirez earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, with a focus on western American and Indigenous literatures. She completed dialogue training through Essential Partners, the Kettering Foundation, and the National Intergroup Dialogue Institute. She began teaching at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder in 2000 and worked for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, the Sewall Residential Academic Program, and the Center of the American West before moving into her current positions.

As an Assistant Director in MASP Ramirez mentors 50-60 undergraduate MASP students each year, teaches courses in literature, writing, research and inclusive practices, and helps direct MASP’s summer bridge programs. Ramirez’s current scholarship focuses on pedagogical practices that advance educational equity, particularly dialogue as a pedagogy. Drawing on her foundation in dialogism and narrative study, her work theorizes and studies dialogue experiences as an engaged and inclusive form of learning across cultural perspectives. Her dialogue-related work includes serving as Co-PI on a multi-year Spencer Foundation Civics Measures research grant to develop measurements for assessing dialogic and deliberative engagement across difference in educational settings. She has published several articles on dialogue as a pedagogical practice.

Her earlier body of research and publishing considers narrative mappings of place in 19th/20th Century western American literature and how these narrative mappings dialogically intersect with contemporary public memory of western places. She is the author of Reading Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and has published on Indigenous participation in the Ramona Outdoor Play as a form of cultural continuation through public performance that dialogically negotiates with an embedded, colonialist narrative of Southern California. She has also published on narrative mappings in Willa Cather’s novels. She co-presided over the Western Literature Association in 2008, bringing their conference to Boulder, and continues to serve as a reviewer for the journal, Western American Literature.

Ramirez has received several awards recognizing her effort to put into practice her scholarly interest in educational equity, including a 2018 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Leadership and Service and two student-nominated Marinus Smith Awards for her positive impact on ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ undergraduate students (in 2007 and 2021). Under her direction, the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Dialogues Program has been recognized with a Chancellor’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity Diversity Service Recognition Award (2015) and President’s Diversity Award (2013).