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Nathan Bates

Nathan Bates

Associate Professor of Practice

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I have been teaching German continuously since September 2007.

German Language, Literature, History, Film, Culture, and
Foreign Language Pedagogy

20th Century Modernism; The relationship between language, technology, and literature; German Romanticism; Contemporary Germany; Time and Narrative; German in South Dakota, Humanities advocacy

Ph D, Germanics, University of Washington, 2018
MA, German Studies, Brigham Young University, 2011
BA, German Literature, Brigham Young University, 2008

German in South Dakota, South Dakota Humanities Council, (2021 - 2022)
CTL Travel Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, (2019 - 2020)

Lambda Chi Teaching Award, Lambda Chi Fraternity, 2023
Promotion to Associate Professor of Practice, USD, 2023
CTL Course Design Fellowship 2024, Center for Teaching and Learning , 2023
2022 Nominee, Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, USD, USD, 2023
2023 Nominee, Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, USD, USD, 2023
CTL Course Design Fellowship 2022, Center for Teaching and Learning , 2022
Digital Accessibility Fellowship 2022, Center for Teaching and Learning , 2022
Professor of the Game, Provost's office, 2022
Monsignor James M. Doyle Humanities Teaching Award, USD College of Arts and Sciences, 2021
AATG Professional Development Grant (ACTFL Virtual Convention), ACTFL and AATG, 2020
AATG Seminar for Program Building through Curricular Reform, AATG, 2019
CTL Travel Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, USD, 2019
German Embassy Grant for Shaping Germany Campus Week, 2018, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2018
CTL Course Design Fellowship 2018, Center for Teaching and Learning , 2018
Manfred Bansleben Award for Excellence in Teaching 2018, University of Washington, 2018

Bates, Nathan J., The Artificial Silk-Mind: The Fictional Mind in Irmgard Keun’s The Artificial Silk-Girl. Presented at the 2022 MMLA Convention, Minneapolis, MN. (November 18, 2022)
Bates, Nathan, Building German Community through Collaboration: An Academic Consortium between South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota. Presented at the 2021 MMLA Conference, Milwaukee, WI. (November 06, 2021)
Bates, Nathan J., „Hat der Deutschunterricht eine Seele?“: Erfahrungen eines uneingeweihten Deutschlehrers mit Studierenden von Lakota und Dakota." ("Does German as second language instruction have a soul?": the Experiences of a Rookie German Teacher with Students of Lakota and Dakota). Presented at the GETVICO, New York City (online). (September 28, 2019)
Bates, Nathan J., The Artificial Mind of Irmgard Keun’s The Artificial Silk-Girl: The Boundedness of Representing the Mind in German High Modernist Novels. Presented at the (Un)told Stories: Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research Conference, March 12-14, 2019, MUC, 2nd Floor, USD. (March 12, 2019)

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