Faculty

Chair

Uwe Steiner

Professor, Chair Habilitation Freie Universität Berlin, PhD Freie Universität Berlin Email: ustein@rice.edu, Phone: x3243, Office: 331 Rayzor Hall Philosophy and poetics, German and European Enlightenment, theories of modernity

Faculty

Martin Blumenthal-Barby

Assistant Professor PhD Yale, MPhil Yale Email: mb14@rice.edu, Phone: x4562, Office: 334 Rayzor Hall Literary theory and aesthetics, German literature since 1700, German film

Christian J. Emden

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor PhD Cambridge, MPhil Cambridge Email: emden@rice.edu, Phone: x5312, Office: 326 Rayzor Hall German intellectual history, history of political thought, cultural studies of scientific knowledge

Maria-Regina Josephine Kecht

Associate Professor PhD Indiana, PhD Innsbruck, MA Illinois Email: kecht@rice.edu, Phone: x5845, Office: 330 Rayzor Hall 20th-century Austrian literature, women and gender, cultural literacy

Klaus Weissenberger

Professor PhD Southern California, MA Hamburg Email: klausw@rice.edu, Phone: x3215, Office: 335 Rayzor Hall 19th- and 20th-century German and Austrian literature, poetry from Goethe to the present, non-fiction prose, exile literature

Ewa Thompson

Email: ethomp@rice.edu, Phone: x4868

Emeritus

Margret Eifler

Email: margret@rice.edu, Phone: x4868

Joseph Wilson

Email: jwilson@rice.edu, Phone: x4868

Michael Winkler

Email: mwinkler@rice.edu, Phone: x3225