Maggie Rosenau, PhD

I am a gig academic and support staff at CU.

My name is Maggie (they/she) and I love language learning, educational technology, and social and disability justice. I am a dedicated and compassionate professional with a strong background in communications, event planning, grant project management, university teaching, museology, academic care work, and digital accessibility.

Current work projects:

Instructional Design for Language Learning
Free OER Tibetan Language Course
Free German classes for Black German Adoptees
Disability/Digital Accessibility
Pedagogies of Unwellness
Exhibit Design
Research and Translation

Personal projects that give me joy:

Birding
Gardening
Glamping
Mutual Aid
Puzzling
Swimming
Queer-Crip Community

Select Publications & Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Publications

With Ervin Malakaj. “Feeling Badly, Together: The Pedagogy of Unwellness in German Studies.” Feminist German Studies: Community and Care: Conversations in and Against the University, eds Maria Stehle and Helga Thorson (under review).

With David Loner. “How to Deal with a Bully: Debility, Non-Production, and Radical Care.” Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University, eds Maria Stehle and Fatima El-Tayeb, Spring 2022: pp. 25–55.

“Das Medium ist das Gedicht: Nichts lesen im Frühwerk Dieter Roths.” Dieter Roth: Zum literarischen Werk des Künstlerdichters, München: edition text + kritik, November 2021: pp. 32–54.

“Universality and the Zero Hour: Interrelationship Between the Avant-Garde, Denazification, and German-Language Literatures.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, vol. 4, no. 1, Hunan: Hunan Normal University Press, June 2020: pp. 65–85.

Other Publications

“Making Spaces for Unwellness, Crip Time, and Carework: Resources and Tools for Building Accessibility and Mutual Aid in the Classroom.” Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum, January 10, 2023.

With Emily Frazier-Rath. “Mutual Aid in Our German Studies Communities: Why and How to do Collective Organizing and Care Work in Academia.” Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum, May 2021.

With David Loner. “Crip Currencies: Resources on Care Community Networks in the Age of COVID-19.” Digital Feminist Collective, July 2020.

“Text, Textiles & Digital Technologies.” Kunst Zwischen Deckeln. Blog post for the Bavarian State Library. July 2, 2019.

“‘The Most Significantly Imaginative Post-War European Book Artist’.” Introduction essay in Roth Times: From Geometry to Decay (an Art Catalogue for Art Basel). NY: Irving Zucker Art Books, 2016, p. 5.

“MUNDUNCULUM: A Rothian Endeavor.” Roth Times: From Geometry to Decay (an Art Catalogue for Art Basel). NY: Irving Zucker Art Books, 2016, pp. 18–22.

Recorded Workshops and Presentations

“What is Mutual Aid (in academia)?” Video for the virtual DDGC Mutual Aid Teach-In, October 20, 2022.

With David Loner. “Laziness and Non-Production as a Radical Form of Political Resistance.” Feminism in Action Opening Session for the Women in German Studies Conference, Portland, OR, November 4-7, 2021.

With kelly j. drumright. “Worüber man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man memen.” Twelfth International Conference on The Image, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2021.