Department of Modern Languages
Joachim Scholz
Professor of German
E-mail: jscholz2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7778
Office: Daily 215
Education
- B.A., Berchmanskolleg, 1967
- M.A., University of Chicago, 1974
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1977
Office Hours
By appointment.
Biography
After teaching at the Philosophische Hochschule in Munich, Germany, and as an Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow at the University of Tulane, Dr. Scholz came to Washington College as an Assistant Professor of German in 1980. Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1987 and to the rank of Professor in 1991, Dr. Scholz chaired the College's Humanities Program from 1986-1991 and the Department of Modern Languages in 1994. While on a leave from Washington College from 1991-1993, Dr. Scholz was the Director of the Literaturarchiv der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien in Ratingen, Germany, and Visiting Professor of Modern German Literature at the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf. Dr. Scholz served as Provost and Dean of the College from 1994-2006.
Dr. Scholz has published seven books, among them a four-volume edition of the literary remains of the German writer August Scholtis, and well over thirty articles in a variety of German- and English-speaking journals, yearbooks, and anthologies. Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Scholz's research has focused on German-speaking archival holdings in Poland and the Czech Republic. He has worked in several local archives and has lectured at a number of institutions of higher learning in those two countries. Much of his work has been supported by grants of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Dr. Scholz, who received the Lindback award for Distinguished Teaching in 1985 and was the recipient of three NEH grants, teaches courses in German language and literature, literature of the Holocaust, and comparative literature.
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