Adam J. Toth

Assistant Professor of German This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
University Hall 3169
(205) 934-4652

Research and Teaching Interests: Media Studies, global cinema, biographical and historiographical writing, rural and urban living in German literature and film, The cultural capital of the Nobel Prize and High-Impact Teaching Practices

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

• BA, University of California, Riverside, Comparative Literature
• MA, The Pennsylvania State University, German Literature and Culture
• PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, German Literature and Culture

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Adam J. Toth oversees all German language courses and teaches courses in World Cultures at UAB. He has been teaching German language and culture at all levels since 2010 and had taught in Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia prior to joining UAB in 2022.

Dr. Toth’s current research broadly examines the connections between media and lived experiences and this is reflected in his teaching. His German language course from Lower Elementary to Upper Intermediate, encourages students to investigate and evaluate German culture through text, film, music, visual arts and bridge comparisons between those media and students’ personal experiences. Dr. Toth’s WLL courses ask students to make deeper analyses into media and encourage students to find points of similarity and difference between those media and in the students’ everyday lives.