Dr. Phil Webber

Professor of German

Education: B.A. Earlham College; M.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College.  

Teaching and research interests: German lyric poetry; German-speaking utopian and communal societies; Iowa's Amana Colonies; ethnography and sociolinguistics; Netherlandic studies.

Dr. Silvia Rode

Associate Professor of German

Chair of the Department of Modern Languages

Education: B.A., M.A. Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Teaching and research interests: Modern and Contemporary German Literature and Culture; International Studies; Turn of the Century Vienna; Modern German Film; Intellectual German History; New Historicism; Postmodern Theory; Teaching Methodology.