Hiram H. Maxim
Assistant Professor of German
ICC 466
Washington, DC 20057
Phone: (202) 687-5723
Fax: (202) 687-7568
Office Hours, Spring 2003: MW 11:15-12:30 and by appointment
hhm2@georgetown.edu
Hiram Maxim received his B.A. from Washington and Lee University, his M.A. from Middlebury College, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and taught two years at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville before joining the German Department at Georgetown University in August 2001 as the Curriculum Coordinator. In addition, he has taught German at the high school level in Virginia and Istanbul, Turkey and studied at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz and the Freie Universität in Berlin.
His research interests lie in the areas of L2 reading theory and instruction,
the relationship between reading and writing, curriculum development and
reform, interlanguage development within a curricular framework, TA development,
language learning as cultural inquiry, and the foreign language teaching
profession. He is currently exploring the implications of his doctoral
research that examined the feasibility and effects of reading longer authentic
texts in the beginning foreign language classroom. Specifically, he is
investigating extensive reading's effect on vocabulary acquisition and
writing development within Georgetown's extended, integrated German curriculum.