Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
Modern Languages building, room 220
Tel 519 888-4567 ext. 32428
Viktoriya Melnykevych
Part-time Lecturer
Dr. Viktoriya Melnykevych completed her MA in German at the University of Toronto and received her PhD at the University of Waterloo in 2012. She has taught language and translation courses at McMaster University and University of Toronto.
Geertruida de Rooij-Mohle
Part-time Lecturer
Born and raised in the Netherlands, I have been fascinated with languages since I was very young. After studying translation and interpretation in Antwerp, Belgium, I came to the Université de Montréal for a M.A. in Linguistics. I settled with my family in Ontario in 2006 and started teaching Dutch at the University of Waterloo in 2011.
Anastasia Kuzminykh
Part-time Lecturer
I graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with Specialist Degree with honours in clinical psychology and was awarded with qualification of psychologist, clinical psychologist, teacher of psychology. At MSU, my research mainly focused on psychology of aggression and perception of verbal aggressive stimuli.
Karen Busche
Part-time Lecturer
Karen Busche is an adjunct lecturer and started working at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies in September 2015. She teaches two GER 101 courses and also takes part in CULT.
Aleksandra Srsa Benko
Part-time Lecturer
Aleksandra Srsa Benko, BA, M.Sc.Ed.
Visiting Lecturer of Croatian Language and Culture
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 33383
E-mail: abenko@uwaterloo.ca
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 08:30-09:30 in ML 308
Education: PhD Linguistics in progress, University of Zagreb
Teaching:
Vera Schielein
Part-time Lecturer
I am a German native speaker who started working as an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies in September 2016. I teach beginner German language courses and participate in the Certificate in University Language Teaching.
I studied teaching English as a foreign language and physical education in Germany. Being very passionate about both my disciplines, my final thesis paper investigated the effects of physical activity in the foreign language classroom.