Christine Rinne

Candidate statement

Christine Rinne (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2005) held positions at Dartmouth College and the University of Nevada, Reno before joining the faculty of University of South Alabama in 2008. She is currently Associate Professor of German in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature. In addition to teaching all levels of German, she directs the International Studies program and coordinates the Global Engagement Certificate. In 2018, she won a $467,000 Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program grant from the US Department of Education. Dr. Rinne’s research focuses on reproductive labor and material culture, and she has published articles on Sigmund Freud, post-colonial literature, and historical reality television. She is currently working on a manuscript that analyzes the content and format of newspapers published by German POWs held at camps in Alabama from 1943-46. In addition to presenting her research at numerous German Studies Association conferences, Dr. Rinne served on the 2016 and 2017 GSA program committees, helping organize the 20th/21st-century Germanistik panels and roundtables.