Intern
English Teaching Methodology

Krüger

Nadine Krüger

Englische Fachdidaktik
Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben

Room: Phil. Institut | 5.U.9

Office hours: Please contact via E-Mail.

Tel.: +49 (0)931 31-85019
E-mail: nadine.krueger@uni-wuerzburg.de

  • Early foreign language learning
  • Teaching literature
  • Inter- and transcultural learning
  • Literary & Cultural Studies: young adult dystopian literature; Victorian literature; cultural space(s)

Doctoral Dissertation: 'The Odds Are Never in Our Favor’: Constructions of Adolescence in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Its Potential for the EFL Classroom.

2024

Theurer, C., Kindermann, K., Fromm, J., Krüger, N., Eisenmann, M. & Pohlmann-Rother, S. (2024). Das StoryTimE-Projekt - Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur Rolle des Feedbacks im digital gestützten Englischunterricht. In Flügel, A., Gruhn, A., Landrock, I., Lange, J., Müller-Naendrup, B., Wiesemann, J., Büker, P. & Rank, A. (eds.). Grundschulforschung meets Kindheitsforschung reloaded (pp. 451-458). Klinkhardt. (read here)

Krüger, N. (2024). Mental Health in the School Context: Interviews with a Psychotherapist and an English Teacher. In Eisenmann, M., Ludwig, C., Summer, T., Becker, D. & Krüger, N. (Eds.). Mental Health in English Language Education (pp. 31-46). Narr.

Eisenmann, M., Ludwig, C., Summer, T., Becker, D. & Krüger, N. (Eds.). (2024). Mental Health in English Language Education. Narr.

2019

"'The Odds Are Never in Our Favor': Dystopia as Metaphor for Adolescence." In: Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. Ed. Christian Ludwig and Nicole Maruo-Schröder. Heidelberg: Winter 2019, 161-178.

"Students Exploring Dystopias in Fiction and Film: A Classroom Practice Report" (with Christian Ludwig and Nicole Maruo-Schröder). In: Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. Ed. Christian Ludwig and Nicole Maruo-Schröder. Heidelberg: Winter 2019, 259-276.

2019

“ʻHunger for Justice’: The potential of young adult dystopian fiction for the EFL classroom.” Universität Bielefeld, 5 June 2019.

(with Maria Eisenmann) “Ecological education through teaching young adult dystopian fiction.” International Conference Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age, LMU München, 27 March 2019.

(with Maria Eisenmann) “Environmental education in the EFL classroom through young adult dystopian fiction.” Symposium Teaching for Environmental Justice: Environmental Education and the EFL Classroom, JMU Würzburg, 8 February 2019.

2018

Young adult dystopian fiction und global issues im Englischunterricht.” 3rd TEFL Day of the Chair of EFL Methodology, JMU Würzburg, 8 March 2018.

2017

“ʻThe Odds Are Never in Our Favor’: Constructions of Adolescence in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Its Potential for the EFL Classroom.” Forschungskolloquium des Arbeitskreises der englischen Fachdidaktiker an bayerischen Hochschulen (AKED), Frauenwörth, 19 May 2017.

2016

“ʻHunger for Justiceʼ: Das didaktische Potential von young adult dystopian fiction für den Englischunterricht.” Bundeskongress des Gesamtverbands Moderne Fremdsprachen (GMF), Nürnberg, 29 September 2016.

“Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Teenage Readers, and the EFL Classroom.” Symposium “Tell Freedom I Said Hello”: Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Universität Koblenz-Landau, 22 January 2016.

2014

“Postcolonial Literature: Jackie Kay.” Bundeskongress des Gesamtverbands Moderne Fremdsprachen (GMF), PH Freiburg, 25 September 2014.

Since 09/2016Lecturer and Research Assistant at the chair of EFL Methodology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
2011 - 2016Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Education Karlsruhe
2015 - 2016Co-chair of the PhD students’ council (Doktorandenkonvent) at the University of Education Karlsruhe
2013Assistant teacher of English at Schule im Lustgarten Karlsruhe
2006 - 2011European degree programme for primary and lower secondary schools (Europalehramt an Grund-, Haupt- und Werkrealschulen) at the University of Education Karlsruhe
M.A. in European Bilingual Education
First state exam for primary and lower secondary schools (English, Religious Education/ Divinity, German)
2008 - 2009Studies in English Literature, Divinity and Medieval Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland
2005 - 2006Assistant teacher at the German school in Mbesa, Tanzania