Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is Associate Professor of German at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching since 1992. She offers a wide range of courses, including courses in Business German, Women’s Studies, German Language, Literature and Culture Studies.

Prior to assuming her current position, she gained academic teaching experience at Rice University. In addition, she worked for the American Institute of Music Students in Austria and the Goethe Institute in Houston, Texas. Margarete is the author of a number of books and articles on German literature. Her latest book entitled Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film was published in 2004. She is also a specialist on Austrian author and 2004 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Elfriede Jelinek.

Margarete holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a Master´s degree in German Literature from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

• Elfriede Jelinek: Contemporary Literature's 'Cassandra' (December 7, 2004)