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T.S. Eliot's Objective Correlative. (Lizentiatsarbeit, Fribourg).
Die Arbeit führt Eliots Konzept auf E. Husserls Begriff des "Objektiven Korrelats" zurück.

1986
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: a Study of its Conceptual  Structure and of Rilke's
Influence
. Doctoral thesis (see below).

2000 
 Effects of Technologically Enhanced L2 Learning on Fluency and Accuracy: The Case for Video and Audiotapes. (MA-Dissertation, Surrey).
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Publications

Book:

1986
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: a Study of its Conceptual  Structure and of Rilke's
Influence
. P. Lang, 1986. 421p.
The study delineates what can be called the conceptual structure of Gravity's Rainbow and analyzes it in terms of Rilke's Duinesian Elegies, a text which was a major influence on Pynchon's novel.

Reviews:
"Strongly recommended...essential for graduate libraries", Choice, Oct. 1987.
"... die bislang beste Studie zu Gravity's Rainbow", Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift,
1989, Heft 1.
"... a valuable study of Pynchon and Rilke...", Pynchon Notes,  Spring-Fall 1987, 20-21.
"... no critic has provided as extensive and comprehensive a reading as Hohmann has",
Novel,  Fall 1989.

Articles in scientific/professional publications:

(1981) "Hacia una linguodidáctica general," Boletín de Filología Universidad de Chile, XXXI , 
pp.1031-43.
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(1981) Aplicaciones de la teoría de Jean Piaget en la sala de clases, Serie Nueva Paidea, Año 1, No.3 (Santiago: Academia Superior de Ciencias Pedagógicas,  34 Seiten.).

(1981) "Juan Enrique Pestalozzi," Revista de Educación, Agosto , No.89, pp.38-39.

(1982) "Vom Nutzen logischer Grammatiken für den Sprachunterricht," Schweizer  Schule, (Februar), No.2, S.59-62. html

(1982) Zum 200. Geburtstag von Andres Bello:"Eine Grammatik für Lateinamerikaner" und "Volksbildung ist  Volksbefreiung," Schweizerische Lehrerzeitung,  No.38, S.1524.

(2001) "Videofilme und Hörbücher: ihre unterschiedliche Auswirkung auf den ungesteuerten Fremdsprachenerwerb", Moderne Sprachen, No. 45 (2001).
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Selected Articles in periodicals:

(1982) "Neue Bezüge zur Dichtung: Jahrestagung der deutschen und Schweizer Anglisten 1982," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 4. Okt , Nr.230.

(1982) "Das Alltägliche macht blind fürs Wunderbare. Thornton Wilder: Die ewige Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens," TR 7,  32.  html
 

(1983) "Zwischen Romantik und Modernismus: Tagung der Schweizer Anglisten in Genf," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22. Juni , No.126.

(1983) "Dichtung und Erkenntnis: Internationale Anglistentagung in Eichstätt," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22. Nov. , Nr. 273.

(1983) "J.B. Priestley: Der moderne Moralist," TR 7, 50.
 

(1985) "Ein gescheiterter Odysseus? Zürcher Veranstaltungen zum 100. Geburtstag von Ezra Pound," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22. Okt., Nr.245.

Manuscripts:

"Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachunterricht: Ein Leitfaden." Vorlesungsmanuskript. Universidad de Chile, Faculdad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Linguística y Filología (116 pages).

In progress: "Wie semantisch sind nachrelationale Datenbanken?". 
The outline of the book was awarded  the third prize at the Unisys Book Contest in 1991.

„Einführung in die Informatik". Textbook for IT courses (150 p).

 

 

    

 

   

 

 

 


   

 

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I was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1947. I studied English, French and Spanish languages and literatures at the universities of Fribourg, and the Universidad de Chile (Santiago), where I also held a post as a lecturer in Applied Linguistics for several years. From 1982 - 1986 I worked as an assistant for literary studies at the English department of the University of Zürich. 1987 I joined Unisys as an IT Instructor and became Educational Manager in that company in 1988. Since 1993 I teach modern languages and computing at Institut Montana (Switzerland).