Department of German

FRIEDERIKE EIGLER received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, and is Professor of German and Chair of the German Department at Georgetown University. She has
published widely on 20th century German literature and culture and is coeditor of "The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature" (Camden House, 1997 with Susanne Kord). Most recently, she published a book on the role of memory and history in novels written since the unification of Germany ("Gedächtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromanen seit der Wende," Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2005). From
2004-06, Friederike Eigler was editor of "The German Quarterly."