Sky Arndt-Briggs
Barton Byg
James E. Cathey
Susan Cocalis
Andrew Donson
Rune Engebretsen
Sherrill Harbison
Stephen Harris
Sara Lennox
Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza
Jonathan Skolnik
Robert G. Sullivan
Sky Arndt-Briggs
Adjunct Professor
Associate Director of the DEFA Film Library
A.B. 1977, Princeton University; Ph.D. 2000, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Ethnography, oral history, Weimar Republic society and culture, German industrialization, Berlin/urban studies, social theory, social construction and practice of place.
sky [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 508
Telephone: (413) 545-6674
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 380: Weimar Germany Society and Culture
German 391G: Introduction to German Studies
Barton Byg
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Director of the DEFA Film Library
Five College 40th Anniversary Professor
B.A. 1975, Drake University; M.A. 1977, M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1982, Washington University.
20th-century literature and film, especially of the German Democratic Republic, film theory.
byg [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 523
Telephone: (413) 545-6671
Recent undergraduate courses:
Communication 340: History of Film
German 597C: Film and Fascism
German 597F: East German Film
Recent graduate courses:
German 597A: Der deutsche Film
German 597C: Film and Fascism
German 597D: Poetics of Documentary
German 597F: Literature and Film: Film Adaptation
German 597F: East German Film
German 697F: DEFA Films
German 697I: Brecht and World Cinema
German 793A: Expressionism
James E. Cathey
Professor and Chair of German and Scandinavian Studies
B.S. 1962, Oregon State University; M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1967, University of Washington.
Germanic linguistics, Scandinavian languages, Finnish, Old Saxon.
Office: Herter 506
Telephone: (413) 545-1856
Curriculum Vita
Current undergraduate courses:
Swedish 240: Intermediate Swedish II
German 585: Structure of German
Current graduate courses:
German 585: Structure of German
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 276: Vikings and their Stories: Saga Literature
German 585: Structure of German
Swedish 110: Elementary Swedish I
Swedish 120: Elementary Swedish II
Swedish 230: Intermediate Swedish I
Swedish 240: Intermediate Swedish II
Slavic 111: Elementary Finnish I
Slavic 112: Elementary Finnish II
Slavic 297A: Intermediate Finnish I
Slavic 297B: Intermediate Finnish II
Recent graduate courses:
German 585: Structure of German
German 702: Old High German
German 703: Gothic
German 704: Old Norse
German 705: Old Saxon
Susan Cocalis
Professor
B.A. 1969, Douglass College; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1974, Princeton University.
Fin-de-siècle Viennese culture, drama/theater.
Office: Herter 525
Telephone: (413) 545-6673
www.people.umass.edu/cocalis/
Current undergraduate courses:
German 270: From Grimms to Disney: Germanic Fairy Tales and U.S.
Popular Culture
Current graduate courses:
German 797G: 18th-Century Drama
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 270: From Grimms to Disney: Germanic Fairy Tales and U.S. Popular Culture
German 363: Witches: Myth and Historical Reality
German 372: Vienna 1880-1914
Recent graduate courses:
German 695A/797A: Vienna 1880-1914
German 764: 19th-Century Drama
German 775: 20th-Century Drama
German 793B: Society, Form, Culture
Andrew Donson
Assistant Professor of German History
B.A. 1991, Cornell University; M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 2000, University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
History of women, youth, workers, and minorities, German nationalism, socialism, liberalism, intellectual history.
adonson [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 508
Telephone: (413) 545-2350
www.people.umass.edu/adonson/
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 323: Modern German History
German 342: Modern German Culture
German 370: 19th-Century German Thought
German 376: The Holocaust
German 497A: Nazi Germany
Recent graduate courses:
German 697H: Modern German History
German 793D: Weimar Republic
Rune Engebretsen
Coordinator of the Ibsen Translation Project
Adjunct Professor of Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst
Professor and Chair of Scandinavian Studies, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University.
ibsen [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 518
Telephone: (413) 545-2350
Sherrill Harbison
Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies
B.A. 1965, Oberlin College; Ph.D. 1996, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
19th- and 20th-century Scandinavian literature and culture, Scandinavian mythology,
Icelandic sagas, Scandinavian art, Euro-American intellectual history, oral
traditions, women's issues, comparative literature, American literature, Native
American literature.
harbison [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 521
Telephone: (413) 545-2350
Current undergraduate courses:
German 276: Viking Sagas
German 391P: Polar Explorations
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 276: Viking Sagas
German 365: Scandinavian Mythology
German 397S: The Nordic Ideal
German 397S: Viking Revival
Recent graduate courses:
German 697S: Nordic Culture
 Stephen Harris
Adjunct Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies, UMass Amherst
Associate Professor of English, UMass Amherst
B.A. 1988, Bishop's University; M.A. 1991, University of Ottawa; Ph.D.
1999, Loyola University Chicago.
Old English, early medieval literature and Christianity, historical
linguistics.
sharris [at] english.umass.edu
Office: 259 Bartlett Hall
Telephone: 413-545-6598
Sara Lennox
Professor
Director of the STPEC Program (Social Thought and Political Economy)
B.A. 1965, De Pauw University; M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1973, University of Wisconsin Madison.
20th-century German literature, literary theory, comparative literature, women's studies.
lennox [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 517
Telephone: (413) 545-6678; (413) 545-0043
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 370: 19th-Century German Thought
Recent graduate courses:
German 698B: Practicum on Methodology
German 779: Post-WWII German Literature
German 793A: Cultural Studies
German 793C: German Studies/Cultural Studies
German 797E: Migrant Literature
German 797L: German Social Theory from Marx to Marcuse
German 797R: Race Theory
 Gabrijela
Mecky Zaragoza
German Language Program Coordinator (Fall 2007 - Spring 2008)
Lecturer
Magister Artium 2000, Universität Mannheim; M.A. 1999, University of
Waterloo;
Ph.D. 2005, University of Toronto
Gender trouble in German literature, bloody myths: Judith and her
sisters, the
German-Jewish Question, Mexico in Germany and Germany in Mexico.
zaragoza [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 519
Telephone: (413) 545-6670
Current undergraduate courses:
German 425: Advanced Composition and Conversation
German 597R:
German Romanticism
Current graduate
courses:
German 597R: German
Romanticism Recent
undergraduate courses:
German 110:
Elementary German
German 310: Advanced
German
 Jonathan Skolnik
Assistant Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1999, Columbia University
German-Jewish literature and culture, 19th and 20th century literature,
exile film, intellectual history.
jskolnik@german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 522
Telephone: (413) 545-4245
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 323: Modern German History
German
370: 19th Century German Thought: Radical Subjectivity
Robert G. Sullivan
Chief Undergraduate Advisor
Associate Professor
B.A. 1983, McGill University; M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1991, University of Wisconsin Madison.
Medieval literature.
sullivan [at] german.umass.edu
Office: Herter 509
Telephone: (413) 545-6672
Upcoming undergraduate courses:
German 341: Early German Culture
Upcoming graduate courses:
German 716: Courtly Lyric Poetry
Recent undergraduate courses:
German 197B/C: Culture and Economy of Germany
German 297A: The Crusades and Islam
German 341: Early German Culture
Recent graduate courses:
German 601: Middle High German
German 716: Courtly Lyric Poetry
German 782: Medieval Literature
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Sigrid Bauschinger, Professor Emerita
Dr. phil. 1959, Frankfurt.
German-Jewish literature, German-American literary relations.
bauschin [at] german.umass.edu
E.M. Beekman, Professor Emeritus
B.A. 1963, University of California Berkeley; Ph.D. 1968, Harvard University.
Modern Dutch literature and colonial literature.
Henry A. Lea, Professor Emeritus
B.S. 1942, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1962, Pennsylvania.
Naturalism, fin-de-siècle, music and literature, Expressionism, German-Jewish literary relationships.
Wilfried Malsch, Professor Emeritus
Dr. phil. 1957, Freiburg; Dr. phil. habil. 1968, Tübingen.
Goethe, Romanticism, Geistesgeschichte.
malsch [at] german.umass.edu
Klaus Peter, Professor Emeritus
Dr. phil. 1965, Frankfurt.
Modern literature since the 18th century, especially Romanticism and the 20th century, philosophy, history of aesthetics, literary criticism.
Lawrence Ryan, Professor Emeritus
B.A. 1953, Sydney; Dr. phil. 1958, Tübingen.
Classical and Romantic literature, especially Hölderlin, 20th-century literature.
Eva Schiffer, Professor Emerita
B.S. 1946, Massachusetts; M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1962, Radcliffe.
Thomas Mann, 20th-century literature, narrative technique of the novel, comparative literature.
eschiffer [at] german.umass.edu
Harry Seelig, Associate Professor Emeritus
B.A. 1959, B.M. 1961, Oberlin College; M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969, University of Kansas.
18th- and 19th-century literature, literature and music.
seelig [at] german.umass.edu
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