Dr. Christa Brennan-Löffler

First Year Coordinator

Email:  Christa.Brennannuigalway.ie

Phone: 00353 (0)91 49 2967

Office: Arts Millenium Building, Room 301, 2 ^nd Floor.

Consultation:              Tuesday          10-11am

                                   Thursday        10-11am

Course Coordinator and Applied Language Teacher (German for Science)

  Christa Brennan-Löffler is an Applied Language Teacher for German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She teaches German to Biotechnology and Science Students; she is responsible for the design, teaching, coordination and administration of the German Course for 1 ^st, 2 ^nd and 3 ^rd Year Biotechnology Students and also for the German Course for 2 ^nd and 3 ^rd Year Science Students at beginners’, intermediate and advanced level. Christa also teaches German language to Arts Students.  The lecturer is a graduate of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, where she studied English language, English and American literature and also Psychology; she obtained her doctorate at the University of Salzburg (1985). In the course of her studies at Salzburg she was awarded the annual research scholarship given to an Austrian postgraduate student by the Irish government. Christa then carried out research for her Ph.. D. at the Department of Irish Folklore at U.C.D. (1979-1980).

Research Interests

• Comparative study of mythological tales, folk tales, fairy tales, legends
• Conceptions and perceptions of time in literature
• Development of course material for an Applied Language Course for Science Students.
• New methods in language teaching
• New strategies in 2nd language acquisition
• Language teaching and learning through music
• Problem based learning 

Publications

"The Voyage to the Otherworld Island in Early Irish Literature", Dissertation, Salzburg Studies in English Literature, ed. James L. Hogg, 2 vols, Salzburg, 1985

"The Pre-Christian Conceptions of Time, Death and Eternity as reflected in Irish Mythology", Analecta Cartusiana (Vol. 3), ed. James L. Hogg, Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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