Dr. Christoph Weber is the Chair of the World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department.

He specializes in 18th and 20th century German literature and aesthetic theory, with special interest in the cultural representation of nature in literature and fine arts. Currently, he is completing a book project on the literary representation of natural disasters in 18th-century German texts.

His undergraduate classes include the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, German travel literature, disaster narratives (Heinrich von Kleist, Theodor Storm, Gudrun Pausewang), and classics of German cinema.