jeff mellor
Jeff Mellor attended Pittsburgh public schools until leaving for the University of Chicago in 1960, where he completed his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. training. As an undergraduate, he studied as an exchange student at the Johann Wolfgang University in Frankfurt in 1963-64. Before leaving Chicago for Tennessee in 1970, he taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and as an instructor at the University of Chicago.
He joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in 1970 and attended his first TFLTA conference in the fall of 1970, where he became a member and subsequently a life member of our organization. Over the years he served several terms as a TFLTA Board Member, both directly and as the Tennessee AATG representative to TFLTA. In 1988-89, he served as TFLTA President. Together with Nancy Lauckner, he was a founding co-editor of ECHO and edited this newsletter for a number of years. In 1991, he was honored to receive the Jacqueline Elliott Award. In 1994-95, he taught in the Scholar in the Schools Program at Bearden High School in Knoxville in collaboration with the Bearden German teacher, Tom Dunne. In 1997-98, he was recognized for extraordinary public service by the university and in 2004 was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Teaching.
Besides his work with TFLTA, he was very active in the AATG, where he was a founding member of the Tennessee chapter and, again with Nancy Lauckner, founded and co-edited its newsletter, Der Spottvogel, from 1971 to 1994. At the national level, he served two terms on the AATG Executive Council and edited its journal, Die Unterrichtspraxis (Teaching German), from 2001 to 2004. He served as Interim Department Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at UT from 2004 to 2007. He retired from the university in 2012.
He joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in 1970 and attended his first TFLTA conference in the fall of 1970, where he became a member and subsequently a life member of our organization. Over the years he served several terms as a TFLTA Board Member, both directly and as the Tennessee AATG representative to TFLTA. In 1988-89, he served as TFLTA President. Together with Nancy Lauckner, he was a founding co-editor of ECHO and edited this newsletter for a number of years. In 1991, he was honored to receive the Jacqueline Elliott Award. In 1994-95, he taught in the Scholar in the Schools Program at Bearden High School in Knoxville in collaboration with the Bearden German teacher, Tom Dunne. In 1997-98, he was recognized for extraordinary public service by the university and in 2004 was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Teaching.
Besides his work with TFLTA, he was very active in the AATG, where he was a founding member of the Tennessee chapter and, again with Nancy Lauckner, founded and co-edited its newsletter, Der Spottvogel, from 1971 to 1994. At the national level, he served two terms on the AATG Executive Council and edited its journal, Die Unterrichtspraxis (Teaching German), from 2001 to 2004. He served as Interim Department Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at UT from 2004 to 2007. He retired from the university in 2012.