Anna LeFevre
Doctoral Research Associate at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Christiane Lütge
Institute of English Philology
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
Office address:
Schellingstraße 3 (VG)
Room 425 VG
80799 Munich
Curriculum vitae
Born in Australia, Anna Lefevre studied undergraduate literature and media studies and after gaining a subsequent teaching qualification from Melbourne University in 2002 (English and media studies), she then taught English, literature, media and photography at secondary school level in Melbourne, Australia for 10 years.
Anna taught secondary English language in Istanbul for a year before moving to Munich and teaching at the Volkshochschule, in private language schools and businesses and at the TUM for eight years. Anna has also been assessing English A literature exams papers for the International Baccalaureate since 2013.
Anna received a Master’s degree in English Studies from the LMU (with a focus on TEFL) and joined the TEFL chair in 2021 as a research associate and is pursuing her PhD examining mindfulness in the English language classroom.
Areas of interest
- Mindfulness
- Visual Literacy
- Teaching Literature and Literary Texts
- Multiliteracies and multimodality
- Emotional Literacy
Publications
(2025) Notes on Well-Being: Finding the Magic in the Everyday. CU SoFL Magazine online. Cukurova University School of Foreign Languages. 12, March 2025. https://yadyo.cu.edu.tr/storage/SOFL%20Magazine/CU%20SoFL%20Magazine%20Online-Issue%2012-Well-being.pdf
(2023) Bob Graham’s Magic in the Everyday: Applying a Mindful Approach to the Reading of Picturebooks. Children’s Literature in English Language Education, 11.1.
(2025) "Why don’t you take another look?" Learning to See Mindfully with Visual Multimodal Texts. IATEFL International Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. 09.04.25
(2025) "Visual Literacy Made Easy" with Saskia Kersten. Kooperationstag für Praktikumslehrkräfte der LMU. Munich. 11.03.25.
(2024) "Mindfulness as a Tool for Better Cognitive Flexibility (and more)". Guest Talk as part of a course on Developing Women Leaders at New York University Abu Dhabi (online). 05.06.24
(2024) "Noticing as the Key to Engagement for English Language Learners". Psychology in Language Learning PLL5 conference. Madrid, Spain. 18.05.24
(2024) "What if you look at it this way? Mindful Repositioning as an Approach to Engagement with Visual Texts in the English Language Classroom". Guest Talk at Universität Graz, Austria. 07.03.2024.
(2023) "Noticing as the Key to Engagement: Mindful Repositioning in the English Language Classroom". Presentation at International Doctoral Summer School in Applied Linguistics & TESOL at the University of Malta. 05.05.23
(2023) "Mindful Repositioning: Reading an Image as Creative Writing Inspiration". Presentation at Craft, Creativity, Critique Postgraduate Symposium at the University of Malta. 28.03.23
Teaching
- Theorie und Praxis der Unterrichtsgestaltung für Englisch mit/ohne Praktikum (GY, RS) (multiple terms)
- Grundlagen der Fremdsprachendidaktik (multiple terms)
- Project Seminar: Learning with Visual Texts in the English Language Classroom (MA) (multiple terms)
- WÜ: All About Teaching Film (GY,RS) (multiple terms)
- WÜ: Working with Visual Narratives. (GY, RS) (summer term 25)
- WÜ: Learning to See Mindfully: Visual Texts in the English Language Classroom. Doctoral Research Project (GY, RS) (summer term 2024)
- WÜ: Engaging Students in English Language Learning (GS, MS) (winter term 24/25)
- WÜ: Teaching Pop Culture (GS, MS) (summer term 2022)
- WÜ: All Things Film in the English Language Classroom (GY, RS) (summer term 2022)