Robert Di Donato is Professor of German and Chair of the German, Russian, and East Asian Langauges Department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. He is the chief academic and series developer of Fokus Deutsch, a telecourse with accompanying texts and materials for teaching and learning German. He has also written articles about language methodology and has given numerous keynote speeches, workshops, and presentations—both in the United States and abroad—on teaching methods and teacher education. He has won a number of awards for his work in language education including the Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in foreign language education.

Monica D. Clyde is a native of Düsseldorf. She received her Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught German language and literature at Mills College, Cañada College, the Defense Language Institute, and the College of San Mateo. She is currently Director of Faculty Development and Scholarship at Saint Mary’s College of California. She has co-authored Texte und Kontexte and was a contributor to Mosaik: Deutsche Kultur und Literatur, Third Edition, both intermediate college-level German textbooks.

Jacqueline Vansant received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught at Hamilton College and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and currently teaches at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she also heads the German section of the Department of Humanities. She is the main author of Blickwechsel, an intermediate German reader. Her particular interest in language pedagogy lies in reading and reading strategies. In addition, she has written widely on contemporary Austrian literature and culture and is currently co-editor of Modern Austrian Literature.