Dr Caroline Schroeter is currently holding a position as a College Language Teacher at the German Department at UCC. She has recently been awarded a PhD degree with no correction at the School of English and Film and Screen Media at UCC. Before her PhD, she received a Master of Arts degree at Clark University in Boston in English Language, Literature and Linguistics. After finishing her degree in the US, she earned a Magister Artium in English, psychology and anthropology at Trier University in Germany. Caroline is also a trained teacher for German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache). Outside of her work at the department, she works as an editor for Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and for Aigne Journal. In the context of her work as Head Tutor at the Skills Centre at UCC, she has been designing and teaching academic communication classes as well as hosting two radio shows (“The Postgrad Wave” and “Write Here Right Now”) on 98.3FM in Cork, Ireland. Recently, her and her team have produced a 6-part podcast series funded by the Broadcasting Authority Ireland.

Caroline‘s research interests include digital learning, social media in the classroom, education and politics, translation, academic expression and writing, second language acquisition, bilingualism, forensic linguistics, North American literature and film, mediatisation, cinematic education, slavery, slave narratives, public awareness raising, audience reception, intercultural communication, gender, identity, cinematic and televisual representation, adaptation theory

Twitter: @carovschroeter

Email: caroline.schroeter@ucc.ie

Website: www.cinematicslavenarratives.com

Recent publication: Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976-2016. http://kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=5383#.WwQezkgvyUk

Current teaching at UCC (tba):

GE2101/2801 Integrated German Language Course/for BComm Students

FX3003: Memory and History in Film

Previous modules at UCC:

German Evening Courses: German A1-A1.2

EN2006/EN2007: From Douglass to Django: Representing North American Slavery in Literature and Film (2019)

FX6017: Film and Screen Cultures and Industries (2018)

EN2006/EN2007: From Douglass to Django: Representing North American Slavery in Literature and Film (2017)

FX6017: Film Promotion, Distribution and Exhibition: Selected Case Studies (2017)

EN2006/EN2007: From Douglass to Django: Representing North American Slavery in Literature and Film (2016)

EN1003: Introduction to Modern Literature (2015, 2016)

Skills Centre modules at UCC:

· How to Write an Essay

· How to Build an Academic Argument

· Unpacking the Question

· Grammar and punctuation

· Note-Taking and Study Skills

· Editing and Proofreading

· Writing Clinics and 1-2-1 sessions