Margrit Verena Zinggeler
Margrit Verena Zinggeler-Straub (born June 24, 1949 in St. Gallen , Switzerland ) is a Swiss university professor and author .
Life
She grew up in the municipality of Egnach in the canton of Thurgau . After completing her federal Matura , she studied English and history at the University of Zurich before she emigrated to the USA and completed her BA and MA at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . She received her doctorate in 1993 from the University of Minnesota, USA, with a dissertation on the work of the Swiss writer Gertrud Leutenegger . She then taught at Hamline University and Concordia College in Saint Paul .
From 1999 to 2018 she was Professor of German at the Department of World Languages at Eastern Michigan University , Ypsilanti MI . In 2010 she received the International Short Visit Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to do research at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel . With a Faculty Research Fellowship from Eastern Michigan University, she spent three months in Switzerland in 2016 for the book project Swiss Maid: The Untold Story of Women's Contributions to Switzerland's Success.
She retired from Eastern Michigan University in December 2018 and has been researching and writing ever since.
Books
- Swiss Maid: The Untold Story of Women's Contributions to Switzerland's Success. New York: Peter Lang International Publisher, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4331-3010-6 .
- Phonogrimm: German Phonetics through the Magic of the Brothers' Grimm Fairy Tales. E-Book Kindle Select, Feb. 28, 2014: ISBN 978-0-615-98031-7 and Print Amazon Direct Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4961-9772-6 .
- Global home CH: Cross-border texts in contemporary literature. Co-ed. with Charlotte Schallié . Zurich: edition8, 2012 . ISBN 978-3-85990-172-8 .
- How Second Generation Immigrants Writers have transformed Swiss and German Language Literature. A Study of Sensorial Narratives by Authors Writing from the Swiss' Secondo-Space. "Leviston, NY: Edwin Mellen, International Scholarly Publisher of Advanced Research, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7734-1571-3 .
- From Multiculturalism to Hybridity: New Approaches to Teaching Modern Switzerland. Co-edited with Karin Baumgartner. New Castle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publisher. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4438-2488-0 .
- Grimmatik: German Grammar through the Magic of the Brothers' Grimm Fairy Tales. LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 26. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89586-720-0 .
- Literary Freedom and Social Constraints in the Works of Swiss Writer Gertrud Leutenegger. Amsterdam Publications for Language and Literature. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995. ISBN 90-5183-763-1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zinggeler, Margrit Verena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss university professor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen , Switzerland |