PROFILE
Dr. Zimmerman received her PhD in German Studies from the University of Cincinnati, with a dissertation on German-Jewish love stories in literature and film after the Holocaust. She teaches a course on this topic, as well as German language, literature and culture courses at all levels in the Hunter German department.
She studied German at the University of Washington and the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, and has taught Deutsch als Fremdsprache (DaF) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany.
She has a special interest in pedagogy and technology, and designed and authored the e-textbook currently used in the third-year German Composition and Conversation courses. She is also an active professional translator.