Diane Richardson
Biography
Diane Richardson, Assistant Professor of German at University of Delaware, earned a PhD through the binational Transcultural German Studies program at University of Arizona and Universität Leipzig.
Diane has taught all levels of German at various institutions in the US and Germany, including the US Military Academy at West Point, the German Immersion Summer School at Middlebury College, University of Arizona, and University of Florida. Diane has experience teaching, creating, and directing faculty-led short-term study abroad programs at the Universität der Bundeswehr München and in Leipzig, Germany.
Diane’s research interests are in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Linguistic Landscapes, as well as Multiple Literacies & the Literary in Language Teaching. Diane has published on all these topics, as well as on Digital Gaming in the German Language Classroom and Empathy through Art in the Language Classroom.
Degrees
- Ph.D., Transcultural German Studies, University of Arizona
- M.A., German Studies: Culture & Communication, Technische Universität Dresden
- B.A., Intercultural European & American Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
