General Information

Director of the Honors Program
Professor of German
B.A., Washington and Lee University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia.
Address: Honors Program, Longwood University,
    201 High St., Farmville, VA  23909
Telephone: (434) 395-2157
Fax: (434) 395-2141
e-mail: orthgc@longwood.edu
 

Course Schedule, Spring 2007

Honors 202: Fundamentals of Citizen Leadership
 

Professional Interests

Honors Pedagogy
Nineteenth-Century German Literature
German-American Literary Relations
Contemporary German Culture

Selected Professional Papers

"Preparing Bright and Motivated Students for Study Abroad," panel discussion participant.  National Collegiate Honors Conference, Philadelphia, PA,  November 2006.

“Dealing with AP/CLEP and Concurrent Enrollment Credits Earned before College,” panel discussion participant.  National Collegiate Honors  Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 2004.

“The Freshman Year in Honors,” panel discussion participant.  National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2002.

"Integrating First-Year Honors Students: An Orientation Retreat Model."  Southern Regional Honors Council,
Atlanta, GA.  April 2002.

"Getting Results from Writing Assignments: Creating a German Tourist Brochure for your Town." FLAVA, Richmond, VA.  November 2000.

"An Evaluation of German Wordprocessing Software for the Classroom and Beyond." NEH Center for the Liberal Arts Workshop. University of Virginia.  May 1999.

"The Great War, Literary Tastes, and Political Correctness: The Strange Case of Charles Follen Adams." SAMLA, Atlanta, GA. November 1997.

"Henriette Hanke: A Case for German Literary Influence on Nineteenth-Century American Domestic  Fiction." Society for German-American Studies. Pennsylvania State University. April, 1994.

Selected Publications

"Funding Honors Needs through Student Government Resources." Honors in Practice, 1 (2005), 39-40.

"The Great War, Literary Tastes, and Political Correctness: The Strange Case of Charles Follen Adams, German Dialect Poet." Yearbook of German-American Studies, 36 (2001), 167-80.

"Charles Follen Adams," American National Biography, Eds. John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

"Mary E. Lee, Martha Fenton Hunter, and the German Connection to Domestic Fiction in the Southern Literary Messenger." Southern Quarterly, 34.4 (Summer 1996), 5-13.

Editor, Literary and Musical Notes: A Festschrift for Wm. A. Little. Berne: Peter Lang, 1995.

"The Critical Reception of Goethe in the Ante-bellum South." The Southern Literary Journal, 18.2 (Spring 1986), 108-122.