Richard “Tres” Lambert earned his PhD from the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies in 2017.

Dr. Lambert’s research focuses on German and Austrian literature from the first half of the 20^th Century. His dissertation analyzed the interwar novels of Austrian authors Hermann Broch and Robert Musil as experimental attempts to resuscitate the concept of experience through the genre of the novel. These works testify to a second, oft-overlooked highpoint of Viennese modernism located around 1930. Dr. Lambert’s broader research and teaching interests include philosophies of language, science and literature, Modernism, and poetic Realism.

Dr. Lambert has studied at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Duisburg-Essen. He also won grants from DAAD and the Austrian Cultural Fund in New York. In 2014, he was awarded a Fulbright-Mach Grant from the OeAD and the Austrian Fulbright Commission to conduct dissertation research in Vienna. During this time, he was also engaged as a Resident Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft.

Spring 2018 Courses

L21 Ger 102: Basic German: Core Course II
L21 Ger 4105: Topics in German Studies: Science + Fiction = Science Fiction?