Faculty Biography

Name: Markus Muller
            Rank: Assistant Professor

Education:
University of Tübingen ( Germany ) B.A. History 1986
University of Tübingen ( Germany ) B.A. French 1986
University of Kansas M.A. French 1991
University of California , Los Angel es Ph.D. French 1998

Contact Information:
Department of RGRLL
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach , CA 90840
Tel.: 562-985-4323
E-mail: mmuller2@csulb.edu

Research and Teaching Interests:
Teaching Methodology and Second Language Acquisition
Nineteenth-Century French Literature
The Fantastic

Selected Publications:
  “Reconsidering the Fantastic: An Anthropological Approach,” Anthropoetics II, 2 (January 1997)

“Interview with René Girard,” Anthropoetics II, 1 (June 1996)

Überleben auf Kreolisch. Translation of Survival Creole by Bryant C. Freeman. Port-au-Prince: La Presse Evangélique, 1991. 

Conference Presentations:
“Palm Pilots as Instructional Tools in the Foreign Language Classroom,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, January 8-11, 2004 .

“The Coming of Age of the Communicative Approach: A Panel Discussion with Foreign Language Teachers,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, January 8-11, 2004 .

"Technology in the Classroom: False Friend or Reliable Ally?" Florida International University CIBER Conference, April 2-5, 2003 .

“Language Coordination, TA Training and the Importance of Critical Thinking,” SUN Conference, University of Texas, El Paso, March 7-8, 2003 .

“From Beast to Beauty and Back,” Princeton Eighteenth Century Society Conference, Princeton University, May 11, 2002.

Courses Taught:
French 101 A: Introduction to French (First semester)\
Spanish 424/524: Second Language Acquisition
RGR 601: Teaching Methodology
French 688: Seminar (19 th -century short story and the Fantastic)