Brian Mothersole
“Riding through Berlin on a bike on a warm summer night” is an experience Brian Mothersole wouldn’t want to miss. Brian is really interested in the way literary ideas and works translate across cultural and temporal boundaries. learn more »

Christian J. Emden
For Christian Emden, teaching and research are closely connected; a class is only really successful when he sees his students thinking independently—often “outside the box”—and matching their skills with recent research in intellectual history and political thought. “Too many courses,” he says, “rely on spoonfeeding textbooks, while students are often most excited when they discover the pertinent research questions by themselves—albeit with some guidance.” learn more »

Klaus Weissenberger
Like few others, Klaus Weissenberger, Professor of German Studies, is familiar with the key elements that distinguish Rice University from its peer institutions: close contact between students and senior faculty, small classes, and a genuine college environment. learn more »

Maria-Regina Kecht
What Maria-Regina Kecht, Associate Professor, likes best about Rice is the students. “They are analytical, intellectually curious, and smart,” she says. Most recently she supervised two Dunlevie writing projects... learn more »

Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Assistant Professor, joined Rice's German Studies department from Yale University in 2008. He is currently revising his dissertation—Acts of Sovereignty: Müller, Kafka, New German Film, Benjamin, Arendt—for publication, but is already busy starting a new project on film theory. learn more »

Uwe Steiner
Uwe Steiner, Chair of German Studies, was able to spend last year in the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau, where he was working on a new major research project on “philosophical anthropology,” a trend in early twentieth-century German philosophy, influenced by philosophers like Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. learn more »