Robert C. Holub

Robert C. Holub is Professor of German and, since July of 2003, Dean of the Undergraduate Division.

Since 1979, Professor Holub has been a faculty member in the German Department. As a scholar and teacher, he has worked primarily with the literary, cultural, and intellectual history of Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth century. He has written books on the German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, on German realist writers of the nineteenth century, on literary theory, on the social theorist and public intellectual Jürgen Habermas, and on the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. His current research project involves Nietzsche.

Professor Holub has been an active contributor to the Berkeley campus. Before assuming the deanship of the Undergraduate Division, he was chair of the German Department from 1991-1997 and a member of the campus Budget Committee from 2000-2003, a committee that he chaired in his final year of service. He also chaired the Committee on Educational Policy from 1994-1996 and has served on numerous academic senate and administrative committees at Berkeley and for the University of California.

As Dean of the Undergraduate Division he hopes to contribute to a more effective use of campus and College resources, but also to an improvement in the educational process, to creative courses and programs, and to increased faculty-student interaction.

You may download PDF* versions of Professor Holub's bibliography and curriculum vitae.