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FACULTY AND STAFF: Meet Len Cagle


Assistant Professor of German

B.A., M.A., University Of Arkansas
Ph.D., Brown University
      Len Cagle, Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Lycoming, received his Ph.D. from Brown University, where he was a University Fellow, Manning Fellow, Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant. He was also active at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown. After a year at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Professor Cagle received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to attend a Center for Educational Technology Workshop for graduate students in foreign languages at Middlebury College. He has also received funding for language teaching and curriculum development projects from the DAAD and from the Goethe Institute. He recently contributed to a Goethe Institute project to develop classroom materials for the feature film Berlin is in Germany.
      Professor Cagle's research and teaching interests include topics in German Romanticism; the early 19th century author, composer and jurist E.T.A. Hoffmann; the uncanny in literature and film; and German cinema. He has given conference presentations on Hoffmann and on blogging in the foreign language curriculum. His most recent presentation, at the 2006 meeting of the Northeast Modern Languages Association, was on the uncanny in Hoffmann's novella Das Majorat.
      Professor Cagle holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Arkansas, where he also taught German language courses.
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