Robert B. Dewell

Associate Professor of German

Ph.D. in German Philology, Tulane University, 1975
B.A. Davidson College, 1968
Further studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1966-67, 1972-73

Robert Dewell has been teaching German language, German cultural history, and linguistics (The Role of Language) at Loyola since 1976. He served as Department Chair from 1982 to 1987 and is serving again from 2005 to 2007. He was Director of the Ross Foreign Language Center from 1988 to 1993, and coordinated Loyola in Berlin from 2001 to 2004. In 1997 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.

His primary research interest is German linguistics, particularly in the area of cognitive linguistics. His publications include: "Over Again: Image-Schema Transformations in Semantic Analysis", "The Separability of German über-: A Cognitive Approach", "Construal Transformations: Internal and external viewpoints in interpreting containment", "Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention: Source landmarks as accusative and dative objects of the verb", "The Semantics of be-verb Constructions and the German Locative Alternation", "Dynamic Patterns of CONTAINMENT".