She received her B.A. in German from DePauw University and a M.A. in Germanic Studies from Indiana University. She has taught elementary and intermediate courses for the college since 1991 and is currently the Coordinator for the Beginning German program. She teaches an intermediate conversation course that focuses on improving speaking skills and incorporates new technology and is presently preparing a language course focused on turn of the century German women artists. She has co-produced, with Ingrid Zeller and Franziska Lys, an interactive architecture tour of Chicago for students of German entitled Bauhaus and Beyond and has used students response systems and iPads in her teaching.