Irene Kacandes

Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
338 Dartmouth Hall
(603) 646-2639
irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu

Research Interests

• Twentieth century prose fiction, especially the novel
• Modern German literature (1750-present)
• Modern Greek literature
• Holocaust studies
• Cultural studies
• Feminist theory
• Discourse analysis
• Orality and literacy
• Daddy's War: Greek American Storytelling, Family Memory, and Trauma. A Paramemoir is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press, which also published her Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion in 2001 as part of its "Frontiers of Narrative Series." She is also the co-editor of A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (1997) and, with Marianne Hirsch, of Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, published by the Modern Language Association in 2004.