Cristina M. Pumplun (1965) is the missionary

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of the

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. Until 2003 she was Secretary of Studies at the Thomas Institute in

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. Pumplun studied German language and literature in Amsterdam, at the

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, and then in Passau, Germany. Her Ph.D. thesis investigated German devotional texts of the 17th century, specifically the work of

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, and was published as ''Begriff des Unbegreiflichen: Funktion und Bedeutung der Metaphorik in den Geburtsbetrachtungen der Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694)'' (1995). She taught modern German literature and culture from 1995 to 2000 at

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and the

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