Lawrence Glatz

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Lawrence Glatz

Professor of German

World Languages

I'm Teaching

GER 1010 (2 sections)

Office Hours

FALL Semester 2026
Office / Teams Hours:
(Best by arranging a meeting through Email in advance)

Monday: 19:00 to 19:50 in Teams
Tuesday: 13:00 to 13:50 in Teams
Tuesday: 19:00 to 19:50 in Teams
Wednesday: 10:00 to 10:50 in Teams
Wednesday: 13:00 to 13:50 in Teams
Thursday: 10:00 to 10:50 in Teams

and by appointment otherwise

Contact me via Email at
[email protected]

Biography

After receiving an Honors B.A. in German from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, I pursued graduate study in German Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. I was awarded the M.A. in 1988 and the Ph.D. in 1995. My dissertation was directed by Manfred Keune. I also studied at the universities of Munich (Junior Year in Munich Program 1982-83), Kiel (Penn State Exchange Fellowship 1986-87), Hamburg and Berlin (German Academic Exchange Fellowship 1992-93).
I enjoyed Sabbatical Leave for the academic year 2007-08 in Germany as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Siegen and was in the Fall of 2013 a Guest Researcher of the University of Cologne and the Heinrich Böll Archive.

Research Interests

    My current research involves the writings of Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Heinrich Boell (1917-1985), about whom I maintain a website. I published a study on the topics of history, crime, violence and the victim in both Boell's nonfictional and fictional works: Heinrich Boell als Moralist [Heinrich Boell as Moralist], available from Peter Lang, Publishing. I have also presented papers on the role of computer-mediated instruction and materials, technology in teacher training, and Business German.

Teaching Interests

    My teaching philosophy is to challenge both my students and myself to achieve our best. I was awarded a President's Performance Stipend for Teaching Excellence and as a recipient of a Bright Ideas / Best Practices Teaching Award at a Metro State Annual Fall Conference, when my submission on guiding students to create "Cybertrips to German-speaking countries" was one of four judged by faculty peers to be exceptional, I received both recognition at this conference and a professional development stipend. I was also awarded an Excellence in Academic Advising Award.

Education

PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures

The Pennsylvania State University

MA in Germanic Languages and Literatures

The Pennsylvania State University

Other in Germanic Languages and Literatures

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

BA in Germanic Languages and Literatures

The University of Pennsylvania

Other in Germanic Languages and Literatures

Junior Year in Munich (JYM) Program, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München

Personal Website

http://www.lawrenceglatz.com

Published Works

  • Glatz, F. L. Review of "The Revenge of the Landscape in Heinrich Böll’s Early Works". Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, newprairiepress.org/sttcl/contact_us.html.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2015). The Curious Rebels of Heinrich Böll: Witnesses, Felons, and Nonconformists. Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2013). Outsider By Choice: A German Artist Rejects His World - Ansichten eines Clowns (The Clown), by Heinrich Böll (1963). The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2012). Online Review Chapter Tests for Treffpunkt Deutsch (Sixth Edition) in My German Lab. Pearson Higher Education.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2011). The Harmless Outlaw: A German Soldier on Trial in the 1960s in Ende einer Dienstfahrt (End of a Mission), by Heinrich Böll (1966). The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2010). The Two Controversial Heroines of Heinrich Böll: Women with Guns. The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2006). Fascism in Microcosm: Leni's Wartime World in Gruppenbild mit Dame (Group Portrait with Lady), by Heinrich Böll (1971). The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2005). The Road and Driving in Heinrich Böll's Two Short Novels Ende einer Dienstfahrt (End of a Mission - 1967) and Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - 1974). The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2003). A Short German Cultural History., www.lawrenceglatz.com/germ2120/lesetexte.htm.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2001). Technology in Language Teacher Training. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216186830.ch-014.
  • Glatz, F. L. (2001). Teacher Training Involving Technology. (Pedagogy of Language Learning, Advances in Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy, Vol. 2, ). Ablex.
  • Glatz, F. L. (1999). The Heinrich Böll Website., heinrichboell.com.
  • Glatz, F. L. (1999). Heinrich Böll als Moralist: Die Funktion von Verbrechen und Gewalt in seinen Prosawerken [Heinrich Böll as Moralist: The Function of Crime and Violence in His Prose Works]. Peter Lang.
  • Glatz, F. L. (1998). Staufen in Breisgau: the historical city of Faust., www.lawrenceglatz.com/staufen/staufenmain.htm.