Academic Employment
University of South Carolina - Upstate 2018- current
Assistant Professor of German
Languages, Literatures, and Composition
Administrative Positions
Director of Global Engagement- USC Upstate 2021-current
Internship Coordinator- LLC USC Upstate 2022-current
Education
2014- 2018 The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Germanic Studies
Dissertation: Beliefs About Grammar Instruction among Postsecondary Second Language Learners and Teachers
2012- 2014 The University of Mississippi
Master of Arts in Modern Languages
Area of Concentration: German Studies & TESOL
2008- 2012 Delta State University
Bachelor of Science in Education
Publications
Lorenz, A. (2023). Correct Me if I’m Wrong: Student Attitudes towards Learning Russian. In S. Nuss & C. Martin (Eds.). Student-Centered Approaches to Russian Language Teaching (pp.57-70). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289333
Lorenz, A., Crane, C., Benjamin, J., & Boas, H. (2020). L2 German learners’ perceptions and use of an online semantic frame-based dictionary for vocabulary learning. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 53(2), 191–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12136
Benjamin, J., Donohue-Bergeler, D., Fuchs, K., & Lorenz, A. (2020). Is’ nicht egal: Guided multimodal reading of a music video advertisement. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 53(1), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12118
Lorenz, A. (2019). [Review of Portraits of Second Language Learners: An L2 Learner Agency Perspective by Dr. Chie Muramatsu.] System, DOI information: 10.1016/j.system.2019.02.004
Lorenz, A., Benjamin, J., Donohue-Bergeler, D., Fuchs, K. (2017). “Alles Offen: Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und Weltoffenheit.“ Foreign Languages & the Literary in the Everyday, http://fllite.org/category/german.
Lorenz, A. (2015). [Review of the textbook Welten: Introductory German by Nikolaus Euba and Prisca Augustyn]. Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German, 48(2), 279-280.
Conference Presentations
"Motivational Factors that Attract Students to German Courses," at American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Boston, MA. 2022
“Grammar Teaching Apprehensiveness,” at Language Teacher Psychology Conference (LTP), University of Graz in Austria on September 8 (Cancelled due to COVID-19). 2021
“Watching German Racism: Inclusion, Diversity, and Social Justice in the German-speaking Classroom,” at South Carolina American Association of Teachers of German (SCAATG), Virtual Conference on September 26, 2020
“Upstate German History Project: German Settlements in the South Carolina Upstate,” at Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC), Greenville, SC on October 8 (Cancelled due to COVID-19). 2020
“The Burden of Grammar,” at Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Mobile, AL on March 27 (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Teaching Video Advertisements in the World Languages Classroom,” at American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Washington, DC. 2019
“Open Educational Resources: Teaching Authentic German Multimodal Texts,” at South Carolina American Association of Teachers of German (SCAATG) at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. 2019
“Social Online Annotation in the Global Language Classroom,” at the Languages, Literature and Composition (LLC) Faculty Forum at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. 2018
“Beliefs about Grammar Instruction among Post-secondary Second Language Learners and Teachers,” at American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in New Orleans, LA. 2018
“Instructional Technology for Improving Reading Competencies,” at South Carolina American Association of Teachers of German (SCAATG) at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. 2018
“L2 Learners’ Perceptions of Using Online Dictionaries for Vocabulary Learning: German Frame-Semantic Online Lexicon,” at the International Constructivist Approaches to Language Pedagogy Conference (CALP 3) in Austin, TX. 2018
“German Sprachinseln in the lower-level L2 German Classroom,” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Nashville, TN. 2017
"Promoting Texas-German Heritage in Texas Schools," at the Biannual Meeting of North & South Texas AATG Chapters in Round Rock, TX, 2017.
“Teaching Texas German in the Context of Higher Education,” at the Annual Meeting of the German-Texas Heritage Society (GTHS) in Austin, TX, 2017; co-presented with Dr. Marc Pierce (UT Austin).
“Student Strategies and Perceptions of L2 vocabulary acquisition using the German Frame-Semantic Online Lexicon (G-FOL),” at the 23rd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) in Austin, TX, 2017; co-presented with John Benjamin (UT Austin)
“Increasing Student Engagement in the German Online or Blended Learning Classroom,” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Boston, MA, 2016.
“Lost & Found: Case Syncretism in Texas German,” at German Abroad 2 in Austin, TX, 2016; co-presented with Dr. Matthias Fingerhuth (Institut für Germanistik Universität Wien)
“Directed Reading of Multimodal Pop-Cultural Texts,” at the 6th Biennial Graduate Student Conference in Austin, TX, 2016; co-presented with John Benjamin (UT Austin), Katrin Fuchs (Valparaiso University), and Devon Donphue-Bergeler (UT San Antonio)
"Teaching German Grammar through Online Annotation” at Faculty and Graduate Student Proseminar, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas in Austin, TX, 2015.
“Critical Thinking through the Inductive Grammar Teaching Approach” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in San Diego, CA., 2015.
“Integrating Technology and Social Media into the Foreign Language Classroom” at the Mississippi Foreign Languages Association (MFLA) in Ocean Springs, MS, 2013 .
Workshop Presentations
“Teaching Dialects in the K-16 Language Classroom: Finding Resources and Creating Teaching Materials for the Language Classroom,” three-hour workshop for German language teachers in Texas at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, 2017
“Introducing Vocabulary in the Communicative Language Classroom,” one-hour workshop for beginning-level German Assistant Instructors and Teaching Assistants at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, 2016
“Collaborative Reading Through Technology in Language and Literature Instruction,” two-hour workshop for faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas in Austin, TX ,2016
Awards
Scholarly-Start Up 2022
RISE: Research Initiative for Summer Engagement 2021, 2022 & 2023
Faculty Fellowship for International Education 2020
ASPIRE-I: Innovation Grant UofSC System. 2019
Title III Active Learning Faculty Fellow. 2019
TAPS University of South Carolina Upstate Faculty Grant. 2018 (2x), 2019 (2x), 2020
Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin, 2017
Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award, Texas Language Center, 2016,
Graduate School Fellowship for Professional Development, UT Austin, 2015/2016/2017
Helmut and June Rehder Fellowship, UT Austin, 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017
Professor Michael Fellowship, UT Austin, 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017
Qualifying Paper Fellowship, UT Austin, 2015
Van Dusen Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, UT Austin, 2015/ 2017
AATG Scholarship for participation at the IDT in Bolzano, Italy, 2013
Eickhorst Scholarship, University of Mississippi, 2013
Delta Phi Alpha Deutsche Ehrenverbindung, 2013
John Hargrove Tatum Language Scholarship, Delta State University, MS, 2012
University of South Carolina - Upstate 2018- current
Assistant Professor of German
Languages, Literatures, and Composition
Administrative Positions
Director of Global Engagement- USC Upstate 2021-current
Internship Coordinator- LLC USC Upstate 2022-current
Education
2014- 2018 The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Germanic Studies
Dissertation: Beliefs About Grammar Instruction among Postsecondary Second Language Learners and Teachers
2012- 2014 The University of Mississippi
Master of Arts in Modern Languages
Area of Concentration: German Studies & TESOL
2008- 2012 Delta State University
Bachelor of Science in Education
Publications
Lorenz, A. (2023). Correct Me if I’m Wrong: Student Attitudes towards Learning Russian. In S. Nuss & C. Martin (Eds.). Student-Centered Approaches to Russian Language Teaching (pp.57-70). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289333
Lorenz, A., Crane, C., Benjamin, J., & Boas, H. (2020). L2 German learners’ perceptions and use of an online semantic frame-based dictionary for vocabulary learning. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 53(2), 191–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12136
Benjamin, J., Donohue-Bergeler, D., Fuchs, K., & Lorenz, A. (2020). Is’ nicht egal: Guided multimodal reading of a music video advertisement. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 53(1), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12118
Lorenz, A. (2019). [Review of Portraits of Second Language Learners: An L2 Learner Agency Perspective by Dr. Chie Muramatsu.] System, DOI information: 10.1016/j.system.2019.02.004
Lorenz, A., Benjamin, J., Donohue-Bergeler, D., Fuchs, K. (2017). “Alles Offen: Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und Weltoffenheit.“ Foreign Languages & the Literary in the Everyday, http://fllite.org/category/german.
Lorenz, A. (2015). [Review of the textbook Welten: Introductory German by Nikolaus Euba and Prisca Augustyn]. Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German, 48(2), 279-280.
Conference Presentations
"Motivational Factors that Attract Students to German Courses," at American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Boston, MA. 2022
“Grammar Teaching Apprehensiveness,” at Language Teacher Psychology Conference (LTP), University of Graz in Austria on September 8 (Cancelled due to COVID-19). 2021
“Watching German Racism: Inclusion, Diversity, and Social Justice in the German-speaking Classroom,” at South Carolina American Association of Teachers of German (SCAATG), Virtual Conference on September 26, 2020
“Upstate German History Project: German Settlements in the South Carolina Upstate,” at Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC), Greenville, SC on October 8 (Cancelled due to COVID-19). 2020
“The Burden of Grammar,” at Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Mobile, AL on March 27 (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Teaching Video Advertisements in the World Languages Classroom,” at American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in Washington, DC. 2019
“Open Educational Resources: Teaching Authentic German Multimodal Texts,” at South Carolina American Association of Teachers of German (SCAATG) at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. 2019
“Social Online Annotation in the Global Language Classroom,” at the Languages, Literature and Composition (LLC) Faculty Forum at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. 2018
“Beliefs about Grammar Instruction among Post-secondary Second Language Learners and Teachers,” at American Council for Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Convention in New Orleans, LA. 2018
“Instructional Technology for Improving Reading Competencies,” at South Carolina American Association of Teachers of German (SCAATG) at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. 2018
“L2 Learners’ Perceptions of Using Online Dictionaries for Vocabulary Learning: German Frame-Semantic Online Lexicon,” at the International Constructivist Approaches to Language Pedagogy Conference (CALP 3) in Austin, TX. 2018
“German Sprachinseln in the lower-level L2 German Classroom,” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Nashville, TN. 2017
"Promoting Texas-German Heritage in Texas Schools," at the Biannual Meeting of North & South Texas AATG Chapters in Round Rock, TX, 2017.
“Teaching Texas German in the Context of Higher Education,” at the Annual Meeting of the German-Texas Heritage Society (GTHS) in Austin, TX, 2017; co-presented with Dr. Marc Pierce (UT Austin).
“Student Strategies and Perceptions of L2 vocabulary acquisition using the German Frame-Semantic Online Lexicon (G-FOL),” at the 23rd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) in Austin, TX, 2017; co-presented with John Benjamin (UT Austin)
“Increasing Student Engagement in the German Online or Blended Learning Classroom,” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Boston, MA, 2016.
“Lost & Found: Case Syncretism in Texas German,” at German Abroad 2 in Austin, TX, 2016; co-presented with Dr. Matthias Fingerhuth (Institut für Germanistik Universität Wien)
“Directed Reading of Multimodal Pop-Cultural Texts,” at the 6th Biennial Graduate Student Conference in Austin, TX, 2016; co-presented with John Benjamin (UT Austin), Katrin Fuchs (Valparaiso University), and Devon Donphue-Bergeler (UT San Antonio)
"Teaching German Grammar through Online Annotation” at Faculty and Graduate Student Proseminar, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas in Austin, TX, 2015.
“Critical Thinking through the Inductive Grammar Teaching Approach” at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in San Diego, CA., 2015.
“Integrating Technology and Social Media into the Foreign Language Classroom” at the Mississippi Foreign Languages Association (MFLA) in Ocean Springs, MS, 2013 .
Workshop Presentations
“Teaching Dialects in the K-16 Language Classroom: Finding Resources and Creating Teaching Materials for the Language Classroom,” three-hour workshop for German language teachers in Texas at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, 2017
“Introducing Vocabulary in the Communicative Language Classroom,” one-hour workshop for beginning-level German Assistant Instructors and Teaching Assistants at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, 2016
“Collaborative Reading Through Technology in Language and Literature Instruction,” two-hour workshop for faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas in Austin, TX ,2016
Awards
Scholarly-Start Up 2022
RISE: Research Initiative for Summer Engagement 2021, 2022 & 2023
Faculty Fellowship for International Education 2020
ASPIRE-I: Innovation Grant UofSC System. 2019
Title III Active Learning Faculty Fellow. 2019
TAPS University of South Carolina Upstate Faculty Grant. 2018 (2x), 2019 (2x), 2020
Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin, 2017
Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award, Texas Language Center, 2016,
Graduate School Fellowship for Professional Development, UT Austin, 2015/2016/2017
Helmut and June Rehder Fellowship, UT Austin, 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017
Professor Michael Fellowship, UT Austin, 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017
Qualifying Paper Fellowship, UT Austin, 2015
Van Dusen Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, UT Austin, 2015/ 2017
AATG Scholarship for participation at the IDT in Bolzano, Italy, 2013
Eickhorst Scholarship, University of Mississippi, 2013
Delta Phi Alpha Deutsche Ehrenverbindung, 2013
John Hargrove Tatum Language Scholarship, Delta State University, MS, 2012