Susanne S Sutton

Teaching Professor (seems is not yet in system?) · Non-Tenure Track

Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

She/Her/Hers/Herself

About

Susanne Sutton received her 1. and 2. Staatsexamen in English, German and Pedagogy from Leibniz University in Hannover (1992 and 1996), Germany. She received her M.A. in English Literature from Texas State University (1994). Susanne has been teaching at UMBC since 2002 and serves as Coordinator for the German program within the department and since fall 2023 as MLLI's Undergraduate Program Director. She has presented at local, regional and national language educator conferences.
She was the principal investigator and received one of the initial Hrabowski grants for her work of connecting students with the local community through experiential learning opportunities.

Research interests

Second Language Teaching and Learning

Teaching interests

Community Engagement and Service Learning (Experiential Learning), German for Professional Purposes, Interdisciplinary Cooperation, International Engagement (Tandems), Flipped Learning

Education

  • Other, English/GermanRegierungsbezirk (principality of) Lüneburg (1996)
  • MA, EnglishTexas State University (1994)
    Challenging the Male Narrator: The Unreliable Center of Consciousness in Willa Cather's "My Antonia"
  • Other, German/EnglishUniversität Hannover (1992)