Heidi Denzel joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2019 and has taught classes in Intercultural Communication, German, French and Spanish Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film and Media Studies at the Global Center of Politics of the Freie Universität Berlin, the department of German Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University. She is the author of a monography on biographical fiction, the co-editor of the special issue Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in Twenty-First-Century German Culture and has published on topics of global politics, migration and border studies, media monitoring and media activism, literary tourism and interdisciplinary pedagogy.

Building on her research, teaching and volunteering in the field of dialogue, migration and human rights, she co-founded the interdisciplinary initiative FLOW-Foreign Languages Offering Wellbeing.  Since 2022, Dr. Denzel has been working on topics of mental health and wellbeing and is interested in developing creative strategies for student-centered learning, UDL and engaged pedagogy. Her current research and teaching interests focus on dialogue, somatic bodies, voice, and meditation (e.g., Conversations in Polarized Societies – The Mo:Lab Dialogue Principle and Music, Vocal Techniques and Mental Health . She co-convenes the University Seminar Personal, Public and Planetary Wellbeing at Dartmouth and is exploring human-tree relationships and cultural practices and concepts like Shinrin-yoku (Japanese: Forest Bathing) and Waldeinsamkeit (German: woodland solitude) through interdisciplinary lenses.

For more articles about FLOW: 

"Verbum Ultimum: Baby Steps toward Student Wellness: Small changes in the classroom could have a big impact on student mental health and wellbeing." The Dartmouth. March 25 (2023).   

- "German Courses Integrate Student Wellness Into Curriculum."  Faculty of Arts and Sciences. December 09 (2022).