1 Special thank you to Dr. Brenda Bethman, Associate Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the University of Missouri Kansas City’s Women’s Center, for her post and the discussion that it fostered. While Brenda was unable to participate in the Grenzenlos Deutsch project herself, her observations and comments came at just the right moment to initiate the project.

2 “Why Vienna?” is a question I hear frequently. During the first two phases of content collection, collaborators traveled to Germany and Austria to record interviews, take photos, and gather the material we would need to author such a curriculum. This larger, third phase of the project took place in Vienna for both ideological and practical reasons. One of the goals of the curriculum is to de-center notions of Germanness and the Germanocentrism of many textbooks, so establishing Vienna as a home base made sense. At the same time, because Central College, Amy Young’s home institution, ran a study-away program in Vienna, we were able to rent their suite of offices at the University of Vienna for our use during the entire month of July. This practical consideration made the decision about location easy for us project directors.

3 See, for example, Abel et. al. and Young et. al.

4 The entire GD team consists of: Brigetta M. Abel, Erika Berroth, Angineh Djavadghazaryans, Maureen Gallagher, Ron Joslin, Adam King, Karolina May-Chu, Isolde Mueller, Simone Pfleger, Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Faye Stewart, Louann Terveer, Tessa Wegener, and Amy Young.

Note that I list names here in alphabetical order, while the names that follow in the main text are listed in reverse alphabetical order. How we attribute our collective work has led to numerous conversations about pushing against the conventions that dictate name order, debates about the pros and cons of using a collective team name, and suggestions for supporting the most precarious of our team members.