Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Dr. Geraldine Grimm (PhD, Harvard University) has nearly 40 years of university teaching experience. She is a lecturer in German at Boston College, teaches theological German at the Harvard Divinity School, and expository writing at the Harvard Extension School, where she won the James E. Conway Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing in 2012. For every course taught in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard College from 1989 to 2007, she received the Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Grimm was also a three-time nominee (2003, 2005, and 2006) of the distinguished Levinson Award for Excellence in Teaching at Harvard University. Previously, she taught German courses in the Harvard Summer School, Tufts University, Boston University, Suffolk University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2015, she received Boston College's Affordable Course Materials Initiative Grant to fund her project of sourcing online materials at zero-cost to students.