Dr. Andreas
Lixl grew up in
Salzburg, Austria. After attending the University
of Vienna he transferred to the University of Wisconsin in 1974, from
where he graduated with Baccalaureate degrees in mathematics and German. He
continued his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin and received his
Ph.D. with a dissertation on Weimar Theater in 1984. His first teaching
appointment was at Wabash
College, Indiana, where he taught Liberal Arts courses and published
a monograph on German cultural history. In 1987, he moved to the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro
where he continued his research on central European literature and culture. He
has published articles on a broad range of topics, and several German Studies
textbooks as well as anthologies on Holocaust and exile memoirs. Since 1999, he has been Head of the
Department of German Russian, and Japanese Studies at UNCG. His current research
focuses on migrant autobiographies, European cultural history, and teaching
technologies. He and his two children live in Greensboro, North Carolina.