FRIEDERIKE EIGLER is Professor of German and served as department chair for three terms (2007-2010; 2013-2019). She also served twice as Convener of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown. Professor Eigler has widely published on 20th and 21st century literature and culture with special focus on memory, space/place, gender, and inter-art relations. She assumed the editorship of Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook in 2020 and is past editor of The German Quarterly. Professor Eigler is the author of Narratives of Place, Space, and Belonging: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion (Camden House, 2014) and Gedächtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromane seit der Wende (Schmidt, 2005). Other major publications include the volume Heimat: At the Intersection of Space and Memory/ Zwischen Raum und Gedächtnis (de Gruyter, 2012), co-edited with Jens Kugele and a special issue of Colloquia Germanica on “Europe and Contemporary German Literature”, co-edited with Anke Biendarra (51. 3-4, 2020). Current research projects look at the relationship between literature and graphic art, literary responses to the influx of refugees into Europe, and competing notions of European cultural memory.
Dr. Eigler is the George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German and is the current editor of Gegenwartsliteratur / A German Studies Yearbook. She is on leave during the Fall 2024 semester