Susanne is a cultural and literary historian focusing on 19th-/20st century Germany with a research emphasis on resistance literature, particularly resistance to National Socialism, and a passion for foreign language acquisition and drama pedagogy. She has re-introduced the J-Term in Berlin and together with Professor Joan Piorkowski (UST English Dept) will be taking a group of UST students to Germany in January of 2015. Besides regularly presenting at regional and national conferences, Susanne has published on resistance literature and drama pedagogy. Susanne M. Wagner, Drama Pedagogy in the Foreign Language Classroom: Wolfgang Borchert’s Das Brot, 2011 Report of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 51-65. Susanne M. Wagner, Bühne frei für die Verschwörer. Der 20. Juli 1944 im deutschen Drama. Saarbrücken: VDM-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-639-03557-5