Andrea Golato
Associate Dean, Graduate College
Associate Professor
Dept. of Germanic Languages  & Literatures
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2090 Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-3248
Fax: (217) 244-2223 

golato@illinois.edu 

 

I am an Associate Professor of German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  I also hold an appointment in Linguistics and am an affiliated faculty member in the Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) Program, the European Union Center and the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

I am also an Associate Dean in the Graduate College, responsible for graduate student mentoring, creating international opportunities for graduate students, and program review.

My research interests lie primarily in Conversation Analysis, specifically in culture and communication, grammar in interaction, and web chats. With respect to pedagogy, I am interested in German for specific purposes (e.g., Business German), and multimedia in the classroom.

In the Department of Germanic Languages, I am the coordinator of the Business German program. I also teach undergraduate classes in German language, and graduate and undergraduate classes in German applied linguistics (conversation analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics).