Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau

Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau is Associate Professor of German. Currently she is serving a three year term as Associate Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies. She was a finalist of the prestigious Bank of America Teaching Award in 2012, a nominee for the Carnegie/Case Professor of the Year in 2011 and from 2009-2012 she was honored with the Bonnie E. Cone Teaching Professorship at UNC Charlotte. A native of Germany, she has worked for years at increasing the number of German Majors at UNC Charlotte. During her time as coordinator of the German program the number of Majors increased from 32 to 110. Her outreach work with the German community of the greater Charlotte region has resulted in cooperation with the German Language and Culture Foundation. Through this partnership, each year thirty students receive a scholarship of $2000 to study in Germany during the summer. In addition, students have numerous opportunities to work as interns in German-American companies here in Charlotte or in Germany through her efforts. Buchenau takes pride in the vibrant German program at UNC Charlotte. In her research, Buchenau focuses on 19^th century immigrants from Germany and their literary production. In particular, she is interested in women immigrants to the Americas. She is currently working on the translation of a Mexican general’s memoir from Spanish to English. Her research enhances her teaching expertise. She teaches upper level German classes as well as translation classes.

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (1997)

Staatsexamen, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany  (1993)

M.A. Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1991)

Zwischenprüfung (B.A. equivalent) Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany (1989)

Appointments

Associate Chair, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, UNC Charlotte, 2014-present

Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UNC Charlotte, 2006-present.

Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UNC Charlotte, 2002-06.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and German, Davidson College, 2000-02.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Honors, University of Southern Mississippi, 1997-99.

Awards and Honors

• Bank of America Teaching Award, Finalist, 201
• Carnegie/Case Professor of the Year, Nominee, 2011
• Bonnie E. Cone Teaching Professorship, UNC Charlotte, 2009-2012
• Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2009
• Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte 2007
• CID Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2005
• Junior Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2005
• Faculty International Travel Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2004
• Thyssen Junior Faculty Travel Grant, Thyssen Foundation, 2004
• Faculty Travel Grant, Southern Regional Education Board, 2003
• Faculty Travel Grant, Southern Regional Education Board, 2002
• Junior Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2002

 Specific Research Interests

• Holocaust
• Women in literature
• Immigration
• German literature in the nineteenth century
• Realism
• Naturalism
• Translation (German <-> English, Spanish->English)