Emily Krauter
Assistant Professor
- Email: emily.krauter@furman.edu
- Phone: 864.294.3174
- Office: Furman Hall - 235U
I grew up with a close connection to the German language and culture because of my paternal grandmother and decided to devote my life to the study of it after spending three weeks in Germany the summer before my freshman year of college. I completed a B.A. from Indiana University where I majored in Communications and Culture, Theatre and Drama, and Germanic Studies. After my B.A., I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Germany through their English Teaching Assistant (ETA) program. After my year in Germany, I earned an M.A. from the University of Mississippi in Germanic Studies. For my M.A. thesis, I collected audio recordings of the stigmatized dialect "Kiezdeutsch" in Kreuzberg, Germany (Berlin) and conducted a series of language attitude surveys with native German speakers. Upon completion of my M.A., I moved to the Lone Star State and began my doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). During my time at UT, I worked with Texas German speakers through the Texas German Dialect Project, mentored student teachers, and turned my research interests to the efficacy of study abroad. For my dissertation, I compared learner gains in students who study abroad to those who stay at the home university with a special focus on the skills associated with pragmatics and intercultural communicative competency.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
- M.A., University of Mississippi
- B.A., Indiana University
Research Interests
Second language acquisition, language identity, and attitudes, perceptual dialectology, study abroad, Kiezdeutsch, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, African American Vernacular English (AAVE)