Felix Kronenberg | Assistant Professor
Office: 203 Buckman Hall |  Phone: 843-3136  | Email: kronenbergf@rhodes.edu

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Felix Kronenberg joined the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as Assistant Professor and Director of the Language Learning Center in the summer of 2009.  Most recently, Dr. Kronenberg served as an Assistant Professor of German and Manager of the Foreign Language Resource Center at Pomona College.  He has taught courses such as Stereotypes in Advertising, Introduction to German Media and Film, Teaching German with Technology, and all levels of German language courses.

Dr. Kronenberg also currently oversees the design of a new language center, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2010.

He was recently awarded the 2009 Marie Sheppard Award by the International Association for Language Learning and Technology, and has been a fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education since 2008. He is also the president of the SouthWest Association for Language Learning and Technology and the editor of the IALLT Language Center Design Kit (5th Edition).

Dr. Kronenberg has presented extensively on various issues involving language learning and technology at regional, national, and international conferences. He has been a consultant for various colleges and universities and has provides numerous workshops and professional development opportunities for language teachers and professors. His special interests are active and task-based learning, language center design, motivation and language learning, web 2.0 tools for language learning, and blended learning.

He maintains the language technology bootcamp blog and website.


Education

Dr. Kronenberg received his B.A., M.A. in English and History, a postgraduate certificate in Teaching German as a Foreign Language, and his Ph.D. in German Philology from the University of Regensburg.  His dissertation was entitled “From Trade Cards to the Internet: Depiction of Germans and Germany in American Advertising.”


Courses

Lang 151 - STEREOTYPES IN ADVERTISING

German 101 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN

German 202 - INTERMEDIATE GERMAN

German 240/340 - GERMAN CINEMA