MARGARET HODGES ESKEW

Contact Information

Telephone: (478) 750-9968 (h); (478) 301-2486 (w) Fax: (478) 301-; e-Mail:
Eskew_mh@mercer.edu; margareteskew@cox.net

Employment History

Mercer University, Macon, GA. Visiting Associate Professor of English, College of Continuing &, Professional Studies, 2004-2008; Associate Director, English Language Institute, 2001-2004.

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. Adjunct Associate Professor of German, 1997-2001; Teaching Assistant, 1967-68.

Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA. Director, Center for Intercultural Studies, 1992-97; Associate Professor of German, 1991-97; Chair, Department of Languages, 1992-96; Director, International Leadership Academy, 1996-97.

United States of America, Department of the Army, 415th Military Intelligence Battalion (Linguist), Intensive Basic Acquisition Language Program II (German Immersion Program), Camp Beauregard and Baton Rouge, LA, German Language Instructor, June 1991-93.

Dillard University, New Orleans, LA. Associate Professor of Foreign Languages (German, French, English, and Humanities), 1969-91; Director & Curriculum Writer, Summer Intensive English Program for Japanese Students, 1989-91; Director, Japanese Studies Program, 1990-1991.

Southern University at New Orleans, Project Alert/Training & Treatment Program (for at-risk inner-city high school students). Coordinator, 1991-96, 97-99; Computer Laboratory Instructor, 1988-91; Language Arts Instructor, 1984-88.

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Intensive Summer School in Trier, Germany, Instructor of German, 1979-80; School of Languages and Linguistics, part-time Instructor of German, Spring 1984.

Delgado College, New Orleans, LA. English for Foreigners Program, Instructor of English, Summer 1972 & 1973.

New Orleans Public Library. Library Assistant, 1966-67.

Education

Georgetown University, Ph.D. in Linguistics (including courses in sociolinguistics, history of language, dialectology, morphology, phonology, semantics, field methods, and formal systems). Title of doctoral dissertation: "The Syntactic Preferences of Adolf Hitler in His Declaration of War on Poland," December 1990 (published by Peter Lang, May 2000).

Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany. Graduate work in the history of language, 1970-71.

Tulane University, M.A. in German Literature, 1970.

Tulane University Summer Institute in Linguistics, Certificate, 1968 (included training in teaching languages).

University of New Orleans, B.A. in German, 1966 (minor in mathematics).

Horst Bienek, Tulane University Writer in Residence, New Orleans. Extensive collaboration, including weekly translation of Bienek's Tulane lectures, Fall 1986.

Eugene Etienne, Retired Consul General of France, New Orleans. Private instruction in French, 1972-74.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Training in German, November 18-22, 1996.

Goethe Institute, "Zertifikat fur den Beruf," workshop at the Goethe Institute San Francisco on business German and language testing conducted by Konrad Wille (Munich Goethe Institute) and Irene Spiegelman (Deutsches Haus NYU), May 3 1, June 2, 1996; workshop on the "World Wide Web im Deutschunterricht" at the University of Texas at San Antonio, March 29-30, 1996; workshop on Functional/ Notional Approach to Language Learning with German Pedagogue Knut Mohr at Dillard University, 1981; workshop on Text Analysis at Dillard University with German author and educator Hans Maier, 1987.

Courses Taught

Language: English Composition I & II, English Grammar for Non-Native Speakers of English (Levels, 2, 3, 4, 5 &, 6), Reading English for Non-Native Speakers of English (Levels 2, 3, 4, &, 5), English Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English (Levels 2, 3, 4, & 5), Listening and Speaking for Non-Native Speakers of English (Levels 2, 3, 4, & 5), Elementary German 1, 11, & III, Intermediate German I &. II, Advanced German I & II, German Grammar and Composition, German Conversation, German Civilization, Intensive Elementary German, Intensive Intermediate German, Intensive Advanced German, Business German; Elementary French I & II, Intermediate French I & II; Language Arts.

Linguistics: Introduction to Linguistics, History of the English Language, History of the German Language, Modern Theories of Linguistics, The Structure of English and German.

Literature: The Literature of the South, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Creative Writing Strategies, Prison Literature, The Literature of Poverty, The Short Story, The British Short Story, World Literature I & II, Survey of German Literature I & II, Third Reich Literature, Holocaust Literature, 20th Century German Literature, German Women Writers, 20th Century German Novel.

Media: German Cinema, The German Press.

Education: Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, Orientation for College Freshmen.

Humanities: Introduction to the Humanities, Critical Thinking, Reading, & Writing.

Sociology: Issues of a Justice in a Global Society: Capital Punishment; Issues of Justice in a Global Society: Housing; Cultures in Contact: Black & White; Cultures in Contact: U.S.-Iran.

Technology: Digital Story; Basic Computer Programming, Introduction to Selected Computer Software; supervision of English Discoveries software in the Mercer University ESL program; incorporation of multimedia, including World Wide Web activities, in the teaching of all courses; establishment of a multimedia laboratory for language learning at Xavier University; supervision of computerized student management system with interactive multimedia instruction in elementary German course for the International Leadership Academy at Xavier University. Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Professional Activities and Honors

National Summit on Torture (National Conference, Atlanta, 2009. Hosted four students from the Mercer College of Continuing & Professional Studies)

TESOL (National Conference, Salt Lake City, 2002); AAIEP volunteer (2002).

Congress-Bundestag Louisiana State Selection Committee (1986-2000). Chair, 1989-2000.

American Association of Teachers of German Louisiana Chapter (1973-2000). Testing Chair, 1995-98; President, 1981-86.

College Language Association: Scholarship Committee, 1996-2002; Study Abroad Committee, 1997-2000); Curriculum Committee, 1997-98; Relations with HBCUs, 1989-97.

National Security Education Program, Xavier University Campus Representative, 1993-97 (Six student awards).

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-dienst (DAAD) Scholar, Cornell University, German Studies Seminar on "Nazi Cinema," June 23-August 3, 1996.

NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Member of local arrangements committee (Tulane, Loyola, and Xavier) for national meeting in New Orleans, May 3 1-June 3, 1995.

New York University, Scholar in Residence, Faculty Resource Network, Summer 1994. Translated Hitler's Declaration of War on Poland; Convener for Xavier University team to internationalize the curriculum, Summer 1993.

Fulbright Scholar, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, German Studies Seminar on German Reunification in Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig, June 23-July 15, 1992.

Fulbright Association, Life Member.

U. S. Department of the Army, Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Teaching German, August 199 1.

Dillard University Faculty Development Award for Academic Excellence (1991).

Louisiana Board of Regents: Task Force on Cultural Diversity. Member, 1991-92.

Publications and Research

Author, The Syntactic Preferences of Adolf Hitler in His Declaration of War on Poland. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., May 2000.

Editor. Quest for Inclusion. Realizing Afro-Latin American Potential
Washington, D.C.: Organization of Africans in the Americas (OAA), July 2000.

Editor, Writer & Producer. "Election Guide 2000," publication of the League of Women Voters of New Orleans, September 2000.

Editor, Writer, &, Producer. Newsletter, Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, Tulane University, Spring 2001.

Translator, "Hitler's Declaration of War on Poland," a translation of Hitler's Speech before the Reichstag in September 1939. Translated while a Scholar in Residence at NYU, June 1994. (In Appendix of the Syntactic Preferences of Adolf Hitler).

Translator, "The Kingdom of Freedom" by Karlheinz Eichhorn, Pulpit Digest (Mar/Apr 1990, 71-73)

Translator, "The Masks of the Poet" by Horst Bienek, London Magazine 26:9-10 (Dec 1986/Jan 1987, 80-91).

Translator, "Christoph Mahrenholz, 1900-1981" by Konrad Ameln, The Hymn 31:3 (Oct 1980, 290-291).

Translator, "Walther Lipphardt, 1906-198 1 " by Philipp Harnoncourt, The Hymn 32:2 (Apr 1981, 111-112).

Editor, "The German Heritage of South Louisiana," a slide/sound show, produced with a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 1983.

Editor & Contributing Author, “The Voices of America. A Multicultural Curriculum for Intensive ESL Programs in Conversational English and American Culture.” Unpublished textbook for the development of conversational skills in American English based on great American documents, famous American speeches, linguistic research, and American songs. Developed and used for the Intensive English Program for Japanese Students at Dillard University, 1989-91.

Presentations, Papers, and Panels

Sunday Morning Sermons, "Critical Thinking: The Legacy of Jesus," October 17, 2004; "Claiming the Promises of God," August 24, September 7, 14, 2 1, 2003; "Moving Out of the House of Fear," April 18, 2004; Junction City Baptist Church, Junction City, GA.

Television Interview with Cliff Chandler on The Syntactic Preferences of Adolf Hitler, "Art with a Capital "A," Interviews with Local Authors. September 2003.

Paper, "From Word to Image: The Convergence of Massaquoi's Prose and Nazi Cinematic Images." College Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 18-21, 2001.

Paper, "The Presentation of African Americans and Black Africans in Nazi Cinema," College Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 16-20, 1997.

Panelist, "The Future of German at Historically Black Colleges and Universities," College Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 1997.

Paper, "The Presentation of African Americans and Black Africans in Nazi Cinema," Paper presented at Cornell University as part of the NEH seminar "Nazi Cinema," July 1996.

Convener, "Cultural Perspectives on the Death Penalty," a forum with author Sr. Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking), African American playwright Dr. Elizabeth Brown Guillory, the Chair of the Tulane University Department of Sociology, the Associate Dean of the Loyola Law School, and the Assistant District Attorney for Orleans Parish, April 21, 1994.

Conference Participant, Michigan State University, Consortium for Inter-Institutional Collaboration in African and Latin American Studies (CICALS), "Internationalizing the Liberal Arts Curriculum," in Washington, D.C., November 15-17, 1996; New Orleans, November 10-12, 1995; Atlanta,

March 10-12, 1995; Lansing, MI, November 18-20, 1994; Paper, "Prerequisites, Strategies, and Models for Intercultural Communication, at Depauw University, April 1992.

Chair, Panel on "Multimedia in the College Classroom," College Language Association Conference in Durham, North Carolina, April 1994.

Paper, "The Tetralogy of Horst Bienek: A Simulation of World War II," Symposium "1945-1995: The Changing Faces of German Studies", University of Colorado at Boulder, October 19-21, 1995.

Presenter, "Multimedia in Language Classes Today," Archdiocese of New Orleans High School In-Service Day, Cabrini High School, February 28, 1994.

Workshop Coordinator & Lecturer, "Cultural Diversity," United States Customs Office, New Orleans, March 28,1990.

Workshop Coordinator &, Lecturer on Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, Orleans Parish Public School System, 1986.

Presenter, "Vignettes from a Language Festival," South Central Organization of Language Teachers and the Louisiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, 1983.

Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships
Author and Director, Grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation ($25,000) and the Institute for International Public Policy ($30,000) to establish at Xavier University of Louisiana an interdisciplinary International Leadership Academy to identify and train high school students with high academic averages, leadership skills and interests in the international arena, 1996-1997.

Author and Director, Sub-Grant from Title III to establish at Xavier University of Louisiana a Center for Intercultural Studies (approx. $180,000 annually for five years), 1992-1997; Author, Sub-Grant from Title III to establish at Xavier University of Louisiana a Center for International Programs (1997).

Author, Mellon Foundation Proposal to fund the expenses of five faculty members to attend the Salzburg Seminar in Austria (ca. $30,000), 1996-1998.

Primary Consultant, Department of Education grant to establish a model Japanese program at Greenville High School in Greenville, Mississippi, including an intensive summer component on the Xavier University campus (approx. $200,000), 1992-96.

Established the first Multimedia Learning Laboratory on Xavier University's campus with the gift of five multimedia Macintosh computers and a laser printer from Apple (approx. $30,000), later enlarged with multimedia computers purchased through Title III, 1992-93.

Author, Grant from the Japan Foundation to hire at Dillard University a Japanese Language Teacher for three years (approx. $45,000 annually for three years), 1990-1992.

Author, Grant from the Japan Foundation to hire at Dillard University a Professor of Japanese Studies (approx. $65,000), 1991-92.

Author, Grant from the Japan Foundation for Japanese teaching materials at Dillard University (approx. $20,000), 1991-92.

Founding Director and Curriculum Writer, Summer Intensive English Program for Japanese Students from Nishinomiya, Japan at Dillard University (approx. $50,000 annually), 1989-1991. Program still inexistence.

Author, Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to develop an audiovisual presentation on the German Heritage of Southeast Louisiana ($1,500), 1983.

Author/ Director (3 years), Sub-Grant from Title III to revise language curriculum and renovate language laboratory (approx. $200,000 annually for 5 years), 1976-81.

Mentor for HBCU student recipients of numerous scholarships including the Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Young Leaders; Fulbright Fellowship to Berlin, National Security Education Program Fellowships to Cairo, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Bulgaria, and Hong Kong; Mellon Scholarships to Germany and Spain; Goethe Institute fellowships to Germany; Friends World Scholarship to India, Japan, and Israel; four JET fellowships to Japan, etc. ($500,000+)

Miscellaneous

Board Member, The Lighthouse Missions, Inc. (an aftercare prison ministry), Macon, GA; grant writer and cultural diversity liaison (2004).

Board Member. St. Anna's Nursing Home. New Orleans, LA. 2000-2001; Assistant Treasurer (2001).

Board Member. League of Women Voters of New Orleans. Chair, Voter Service. 2000-2001.

Grant Writer, New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH), 1997-98. Grant to build the Vincentian House ($50,000).

Contract Writer &, Negotiator for Xavier University International Travel/ Study programs (X-ITS), 1992-97. Formulated &, negotiated with Study Abroad Director model contracts incorporating federal guidelines, regional accreditation requirements, and Xavier University policies to enable students to use scholarships and financial aid for study abroad with seventeen institutions or organizations (1992-1997).

Negotiator, reciprocal agreement between Tulane and Xavier enabling students to enroll in courses in the Departments of French and Germanic and Slavic Languages.

Presenter, "Japanese Studies at Dillard University," Japan Society, April 1991.

Convener &, Host, Dillard University Convocation "Remembering Crystal Night" with Kurt Steiner, Holocaust survivor and CEO, City of New Orleans, 1987.

Convener &, Host, Workshop on Text Analysis sponsored by the Goethe Institute at Dillard University with German author and educator Hans Maier, 1987.

Convener & Host, Film Festival sponsored by the Goethe Institute at Dillard University featuring "Films of the Third Reich" with former Spiegel film critic and director of the Berlin Film Festival, Wolf Donner, 1984.

Convener & Host, Documentary "From Weimar to Hitler" sponsored by the Goethe Institute at Dillard University with German Historian and Founding Director of the Goethe Institute Houston, Dr. Richard Thoma, 1984.

Coordinator &, Host, Oktoberfest 1683-1983: Celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the Arrival of the First Group of German Immigrants in Philadelphia, at Dillard University, 1983.

Convener & Host, "An Evening with Horst Bienek," a reading by German poet and novelist Horst Bienek, sponsored by the Goethe Institute at Dillard University, 1983.

Convener &. Host, Readings by German author Hanna Johansen, sponsored by the Goethe Institute at Dillard University, 1982.

Convener &, Host, Workshop on Functional/ Notional Approach to Language Learning with German Pedagogue Knut Mohr, sponsored by the Goethe Institute at Dillard University, 1981.

Editor, Writer &, Producer, Habitat Hammer, Newsletter of the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, 1992-94; writer, 1998.

Lecturer, Saint Charles Avenue Baptist Church Wednesday Lecture Series, "The Language of Adolf Hitler," March 20, 199 1.

Speaker, New Orleans Pax Christi Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 5,1990.

Speaker, New Orleans Public Library Brown Bag Lecture Series, "The Japanese Studies Program at Dillard University," October 17, 1990.

Presenter, "The German Heritage of South Louisiana," Metairie Road Evangelical Church, 1987.

Consultant on data base programs for use by volunteers, Louisiana State Museum, Sheet Music Collection, 1990.

Founding Faculty Sponsor, Dillard University Habitat for Humanity Chapter, 1989-1991.