Modern Languages - Faculty & Staff

Brian Tucker, professor of German, joined the faculty in 2004. Professor Tucker did his undergraduate work at Wabash, where he received his A.B., summa cum laude, in German and history. He earned an M.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. At Wabash he teaches a wide range of courses in German language, literature, and cultural history and regularly leads students on immersion trips to Europe. Recent courses include seminars on “Freud and the Question of Interpretation,” “German Literature and Culture, 1800-Present,” and “Immigration and Integration in Modern Germany.” His research, which has been supported by the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, centers on German-language literature and intellectual history of the long nineteenth century. He pursues these topics in his books Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud (2010) and Theodor Fontane: Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age (2021).