Maria Stehle

MARIA STEHLE received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005. She taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College in New London for two years before she joined the faculty at UT in the fall of 2007.

Her research and teaching focus on German and European Cultural Studies, Gender and Media Studies, and Cultural Histories of Germany since 1945. Her recent publications include an article in the Westminster Papers for Culture and Communication titled "Narrating the Ghetto, Narrating Europe: From Berlin, Kreuzberg to the Banlieues of Paris" and an article entitled "The whole world is in uproar: Discourses of Fear, Instability, and Global Change in West German Media, 1977-1980," in German Politics and Society. She is currently working on a book-length project with the tentative title "'My World is a Ghetto': Cityscapes and Identifications in 21st Century Germany."

She is further interested in exploring interdisciplinary and creative strategies for teaching and research and theories and practices of critical pedagogy and student centered learning. Her article "Psycho-Geography as Teaching Tool: Troubled Travels Through an Experimental First-Year Seminar" was published this summer in InterActions and can be accessed at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol4/iss2/art5/.

She serves as co-editor for the Women in German Newsletter.

Contact Information

Maria Stehle
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
716 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-7001
E-Mail: mstehle@utk.edu