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| Andreas Lixl, PhD, Department Head, Department of German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese Studies, UNCG Tel: 336.334.5427 Email: andreas_lixl@uncg.edu |
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Andreas Lixl is a Professor of German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese Studies at UNCG. He also teaches German language, literature, and European cultural history in addition to serving as Department Head of German Studies. He grew up in Salzburg, Austria. From the University of Vienna he transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a PhD in German Studies in 1984. His publications include books on Weimar Theater, Jewish autobiographies, women's memoirs, and college textbooks. His research focuses on migrant literature, European culture, and foreign language teaching technologies. Andreas lives with his family in Greensboro, North Carolina.Andreas’ research focus is on the Carolinian Immigrant Memory Project, which documents the historical, social, political, artistic, and cultural experiences of Carolinian immigrants from colonial to contemporary times. The broad focus aims at preserving and disseminating historical texts, photographs, audio-visual records, and autobiographical accounts of immigrants in the Carolinas. The project rests on a research framework that connects short-range and long-range goals, which include the comprehensive retrieval, preservation, digitization, and dissemination of documentary materials that illuminate North and South Carolina's immigrant legacy. A research anthology entitled Memories of Carolinian Immigrants: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present is forthcoming in 2009.
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