Alexa Mendez
Doctoral Student / Max Kade First-Year Fellow
mendez.197@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Hagerty Hall, 4th floor
Education:
University of Cincinnati
BA in German Studies 2015
BA in History 2015
MA in German Studies 2015
MA Thesis: People as Propaganda: Personifications of Homeland in Nazi German and Soviet Russian Cinema
University of Pennsylvania
MA in Germanic Languages and Literature 2018
Research Interests:
- Intersections of Heimat, Language, and Identity
- Comparative Studies of Afro-German and Afro-Russian History and Culture
- English-German (Meta)Translation in J.R.R. Tolkien's works and mythos
- Comparative Focuses on Nazi German and Soviet Cinema
International Education:
2008-2009 CBYX Scholar
Gymnasium Borghorst
Steinfurt, Germany
2017 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
(Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте)
Russian Language and Philology
Work Experience:
Jan-August 2023
Dayton, Ohio
Adjunct Instructor Wright State University
Courses Taught: Intermediate German I & II
June 2022 -
Cincinnati, Ohio
Affordable Language Services, LLC
German Interpreter
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Fellow University of Pennsylvania
Elementary German I & II
2016-2023
Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati Public Schools
German Teacher
Grades and Levels Taught: 6th-12th, German 1-4