German Program Faculty
Arne Koch e-mail: akoch@colby.edu tel.: (207) 859-4449 office: Lovejoy 446 homepage: http://www.colby.edu/personal/a/akoch/Home.html
Cyrus Shahan e-mail: cshahan@colby.edu tel.: (207) 859-4443 office: Lovejoy 448
Raffael Scheck
Hubert C. Kueter, Emeritus; hckueter@colby.edu James R. McIntyre, Emeritus; jrmcinty@colby.edu Ursula Reidel-Schrewe, Emeritus; ureidel@colby.edu |
Arne Koch received his education in German Studies at Kenyon College (B.A. 1995), the Pennsylvania State University (M.A. 1997), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 2001). Before joining Colby's German and Russian Department, he taught at the University of Kansas where his courses reflected his interdisciplinary interests in word and image studies, eco-criticism, (post)colonialism, and film studies. With an emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century literary and cultural studies, he has published a book on national and regional identities, a co-edited volume on E.M. Arndt (with Walter Erhart, Bielefeld), an edition of a nineteenth-century crime novel set in N.Y. and New Hampshire (with Meredith Fast '11) as well as articles on topics ranging from concepts of loyalty in medieval literature and erotic literature of the fin-de-siècle to German Road Movie and Fatih Akin. For more on Professor Koch's interests, 
Cyrus Shahan, Assistant Professor of German, earned a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1999) and his M.A (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in German Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His graduate research interests in the twentieth century began with German expressionism and culminated in a dissertation on punk subcultures and West German literature (and some punk music and fanzines) of the 1980s. His current research continues to focus on the aesthetics and politics of twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, film and media studies, modern European intellectual history, and cultural studies. He is currently working on projects on Thomas Meinecke, Elfriede Jelinek and Alexander Kluge.
Courses required for the German Studies Major are also taught by Raffael Scheck, Professor of History. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative European History from Brandeis University and a Masters in History and German Studies from the University of Zurich. His research focuses on African- French prisoners of war in German hands during World War II and on German right-wing movements before the rise of the Nazis (1914-1933), topics on which he has published three books and over a dozen articles. His latest book is 
Jennifer Yoder, Associate Professor of Government & International Studies and Director of the International Studies Program, joined the Colby faculty in 1996 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. The courses she teaches in the German Studies curriculum are based on her expertise in German politics, German unification, postcommunist developments in the Eastern European countries, and transitional justice. Her book, 
Donata von Hoff is our Language Assistant for 2009-10. She was born and raised in the small town of Rieseby, Germany, which is an hour north of Hamburg close to the Baltic Sea. By age 16, she went on an exchange to New Brunswick, Canada, to attend the Rothesay Netherwood School for two months. This exchange in particular intensified her interest in studying abroad after completion of her German Abitur. She graduated in June 2009 from the Round Square School Louisenlund, only 10 minutes away from her home.