Bruce Nottingham-Spencer holds a BA in German Literature and Linguistics from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and an MA and PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also spent time abroad at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. He currently supervises the Elementary German program and teaches a variety of courses including German Composition and Conversation, and Business German. His interests include Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Crime Fiction, and Germanic Mythology.

Courses taught

• GRMN:1000 - Norse Myth in Popular Culture 
• GRMN:1001 - Elementary German I 
• GRMN:1002 - Elementary German II 
• GRMN:1020 - Intensive Elementary German 
• GRMN:2775 - Scandinavian Crime Fiction 
• GRMN:3103 - Composition and Conversation I 
• GRMN:3104 - Composition and Conversation II 
• GRMN:3214 - Business German 
• WLLC:5000 - Teaching and Learning Languages