Staatsexamen I (Bonn), PhD (Rhodes)

Research Interests:

Prof. Weber’s dedication to the development and scholarship of teaching and learning can be be seen in some of her research outputs. Another focus of her research is 20 th  century German literature and society.

Selected publications:

Books:

2007    Weber, Undine S.; Wozniak, Janina (eds.). Kultur- und Literaturvermittlung. Festschrift für Werner Krueger. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS. 186pp. ISBN 978-1-920109-25-7.

Selected refereed articles and book chapters:       

2023    Schafli, Sasha-Lee & Weber, Undine S. “The Use of Stereotypes within South African Television Car Advertising using the German Language: A Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach.” Stellenbosch
Papers in Linguistics Plus (SPiL Plus). Vol. 66 (1). Pp. 229-251.

2022    Weber, Undine S. “Ein Fach im Umbruch: die südafrikanische Germanistik.“ In: Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik. Ed. Hans-Gert Roloff. Vol. 54 (2). Pp. 103-114.

2020    Weber, Undine S. “’a notalive undead too-nearishness’? Ein Kommentar zu E.E. Cummings in Wolfgang Koeppens Das Treibhaus.“ In: Acta Germanica, German Studies in Africa. Volume 48. Ed. Cilliers van den Berg. Stellenbosch/ Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Pp. 151-160.

2020    Ortner, Gwyndolen J. & Weber, Undine S. ”Student approaches and attitudes towards writing in German as a foreign language, using corpus linguistic tools.” In: Journal for Language Teaching, vol. 53/2. Pp. 27-51.

2018    Ortner, Gwyndolen J. & Weber, Undine S. “Using corpora to inform teaching practice in German Studies.” In: Per Linguam, vol.34, no.2 (2018). Pp. 69-83.

2017    Weber, Undine S.; Domingo, Rebecca S.C.; Fourie, Regine B. “Beyond Language: German Studies in a South African 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Context.” In: Kaschula, Russell H./ Maseko, Pamela/ Wolff, H. Ekkehard (eds.) 2017. In: Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication: A South African Perspective. Johannesburg: Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press. Pp. 323-335.

2015    Weber, Undine S. “Can 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 a Foreign Language Build or Improve (Inter-)Cultural Competence? A Preliminary Case Study of Students’ Subjective Impressions.” In: Witte, Arnd/ Harden, Theo (eds.) 2015. Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience: The Subjective Dimension. Oxford: Peter Lang. Pp. 231-242.

2012    Weber, Undine S. „Entzauberung der Moderne. Wolfgang Koeppen, Charles Baudelaire und Thomas Mann.“ In: Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik. Magie und Sprache. Ed. Carlotta von Maltzan. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Vol. 108. Pp. 273-288.

2011     Weber, Undine S., Domingo, Rebecca S.C. “Adding another colour to the rainbow: An attempt at imparting German cultural competence in a South African university context.” In: Intercultural Competence. Concepts, Challenges, Evaluations. In: Harden, Theo/ Witte, Arnd (eds.) 2011.  Oxford: Peter Lang. Pp. 177-191.

2009     Weber, Undine S.; Williams, Alison E. “The ‘Golden Fifties’ and the ‘Tide of Immorality’:  Relations between African-American GIs in West   Germany of the 1950s and white women as provided by Wolfgang Koeppen’s Tauben im Gras.” In: Acta Academica. Journal of the human sciences and interdisciplinary fields.Ed. D.J. van den Berg. Vol. 41/1. Pp.99-125. http://0reference.sabinet.co.za.wam.seals.ac.za/webx/access/electronicjournals/academ/academ v41 ni a4.pdf

Teaching:

Undine Weber teaches German language, literatures and cultures as well as German-English and English-German translation at all levels.

She was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Senior Distinguished Teaching Award for 2013.

Undine Weber successfully took part in the first Teaching Advancement at 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (TAU) Fellowship Programme (2014-2016) in South Africa (run by the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa, HELTASA) and became one of the first 50 TAU Fellows in South Africa in 2016, working to “contribute towards the enhancement of teaching and learning in higher education in South Africa by supporting the development of a cadre of academics across institutions and disciplines as scholars, leaders and mentors in their fields” as well as “to enhance the status and stature of teaching and popularise the understanding of teaching excellence in varied institutional and disciplinary settings” (see: http://heltasa.org.za/projects/teaching-advancement-university-tau-fellowships-programme/ ).

Besides Prof. Weber’s active involvement in the development of blended learning she has been continuously striving to improve the quality of her teaching by attending staff development courses organised by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网) and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in South Africa as well as in Germany since 2000 (training of teachers, teaching cultural studies), and since 2000 she has been an accredited examiner for the German Goethe Institute.

Professional Involvement:

Prof. Weber has been a long-serving board member of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa (SAGV) https://www.sagv.org.za/, and after eight years as the co-editor of the Association’s accredited journal Acta Germanica. German Studies in Africa, she has been the Vice President of the Association since 2025. She has also been a member of the South African Translators’ Institute (SATI) since 2015.

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