Dan Thornton 
 Associate Director, Scholarships & Student Aid 
 Scholarships & Student Aid, CB#2300 
 (919) 962-4168 
 dan_thornton@unc.edu
Appointed Year:	2000	
Tenured:	No	
Education:	Doctorate (2000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	
World Area of Focus:	• International 10%-24%
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) 50%-74%	
Languages:	• Dutch (Flemish) (native/bilingual proficiency)
• French (elementary proficiency)
• German (native/bilingual proficiency)
• Russian (elementary proficiency)
• Spanish (elementary proficiency)
• Swedish (elementary proficiency)	
Specialization:	Memories of the Holocaust in Post-1945 German, Austrian, and Dutch Literature	
Relevant Experience:	Germany/Luxembourg, 1984 (3 months); Ireland, 1986 (6 months as intern in Irish Parliament); Luxembourg, France, UK, Ireland, 1987 (3 months); Germany, 1988-1992 (as English Instructor, University of Heidelberg), the Netherlands, 1994-95 (on graduate-study fellowship); the Netherlands, 1999 (two months on FLAS fellowship);  Workshops for teachers of Dutch, 2006 and 2008; hosted the 14th Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, 2008; attended workshop for teachers of Dutch, University of Amsterdam, 2008.
	
Distinctions:	Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2009; Center for Global Initiatives Distinguished Service Award, 2009	
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:	2
	
Relevant Courses Taught:	 Dutch language acquisition (DTCH 402, 403, 404) and Dutch literature (DTCH 405); various independent studies.	
Recent Publications:	• 2000 Dualities: Myth and the Unreconciled Past in Austrian and Dutch Literature of the 1980s. PhD Dissertation, 232 pp. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 2000.