THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME
LORENA B. ELLIS, Ph.D.
Title: Professor
COLLEGE
Queensborough Community College
Department: For. Lang. and Literatures
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2011 AATG/Goethe Institut Certificate of Merit Award, for outstanding achievement in furthering the teaching
of German in schools of the United States, received on November 19, 2012 in Denver Colorado at the Annual
ACTFL (American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages) Conference.
DUDEN Award, in recognition of outstanding effort and achievement in German instruction, Bibliographisches
Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, AATG Metro New York Chapter (2010)
Queensborough Community College Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award (2002)
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Partial Stipend from the Austrian Culture Ministry: Workshop for Teachers AATG and Austrian Culture
Ministry, July 11-23, 2011 “Austrian Seminar: Von der Donau an die Weichsel: Wien und Krakau”
Release time for. Lang. Disc.Group: CUNY-Online (G.Otte, Sloan Grant) Fall 2007
Release time for one course: Online Writing intensive CUNY-Online (G.Otte, Sloan Grant) Spring 2005
TraiNDaF stipend from AATG through a grant from the Federal Republic of Germany: 1) Washington, DC (411 to 4-14-02); 2) 2-week seminar in Germany summer 2002; 3) AATG Annual Meeting at the Annual ACTFL
Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, 11-21 to 11-24-02; 4) ACTFL conference in Chicago, 11- 18 to 11-21-04.
PSC CUNY grant PSC CUNY Fall 2001 / 2002, release time for one course.
Scholarship from the Goethe Institute’s Central Headquarters, July 30-August 12, 2002, München, Germany.
Foreign Language in the Workplace a FIPSE (Hunter College) 1 of 10 CUNY faculty, Fall 1998-Spring 2000
(release time for 4 courses and OPI training at the ACTFL conference 1998, Chicago)
Scholarship from the Goethe Institute’s Central Headquarters, July 30-August 12, 2000, Weimar, Germany.
Scholarship from the Goethe Institute’s Central Headquarters, June 25-July 7, 1995, Düsseldorf, Germany.
New York University: University Scholarship for graduate studies, Fall 1982 to Spring 1987.
Scholarship from the German Ministry of Culture to attend vocational school in Berlin: Landeslehranstalt für
Mediznische Technische Assistenten, 1968-1970