Margret Eifler

Professor Emerita

Education

• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
  
• MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1964
  
• BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1962
  

Areas of Interest

• The German novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  
• New German Cinema and GDR film
  
• European women film directors
  
• literary film adaptation
  

Personal Statement

Margret Eifler began her professional career at Stanford and came to Rice in 1973. From 1990 to 1996 she served as chair of the department. Her areas of interest encompass the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special emphasis on the novel, post-GDR literature, and European film studies. 

Selected Publications

• Die subjektivistische Romanform: Ihre Existentialität und Anti-Narrativik (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1985)
• Dialektische Dynamik: Kulturpolitik und Ästhetik im Gegenwartsroman der DDR (Bonn: Bouvier, 1976)