Catherine McNally

Experienced curriculum designer, instructor, and project manager. Well-versed in program development, community outreach, and event planning. Skilled in curriculum development for German language instruction in both academic and social settings. Passionate about furthering German language innovation, collaboration, and cross-cultural understanding.

• American Association of Teachers of German
• Coalition of Women in German
• German Studies Association
• Modern Language Association

• Fellowship: Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2025
• Professional Development Grant: Coalition of Women in German, 2025
• Inclusive Initiatives Grant: Mount Holyoke College, 2024

• (Ver)arbeiten: The Body as a Site of Mourning and Labor in Fatma Aydemir’s Dschinns, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2023-01-01
• Multimedia Medea: Ethnic Difference and Adaptation, German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX, 2022-01-01
• Taking Leave and Taking Refuge: Narratives of Flight and Belonging in Contemporary German Literature, Food for Thought: New Directions in German Studies, German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2021-01-01
• Literature as Medium of Positive Emotions, German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2021-01-01
• Legacies of Victimhood in German Memory and Literature, Invited Talk, SUNY Albany Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 2020-01-01
• Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe, Department of European Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-01
• (Re)Framing Migration, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Virtual, 2020-01-01
• Writing Global Crises: New Approaches to Reading Elfriede Jelinek, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018-01-01
• Conceptions of Memory and Migration in Esther Dischereit’s Mit Eichmann an der Börse and Zafer Şenocak’s Atlas des Tropischen Deutschland, Minorities and Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990: Intersections, Interventions, Interpolations, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2017-01-01
• Fictionalizing Memory in Zafer Şenocak’s Gefährliche Verwandtschaft, Fresh Perspectives on the Newest German Literature, NeMLA Hartford, Connecticut, 2016-01-01
• Maxim Biller: Self-Irony and the 'Insektenruf', Germany and Exile: Post World War II Migrations of Culture, Art and Thought, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2013-01-01

• Colonial Algorithm: Witchcraft, Digital Space, and the Spiritual Appropriation in a Postcolonial World, Intersectional Approaches in Feminist German Studies Edited Volume, De Gruyter, Forthcoming Fall 2025
• Writing Belonging: Germans and Refugee Narratives from 1945 to 2016, Manuscript under review, Camden House Press
• Traumatic (Self) Exile: Narrative Marginalization in Recent and Postwar German Fiction, German Studies Review, 46.2, 2024
• Book Review: Franz-Joseph Wehage, Sammelsurium: A Reader and Workbook for Intermediate German, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2023