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Irene Kacandes
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Irene Kacandes, Professor of German and Comparative Literature,
will begin her duties as Chair of German Studies in January 2009.
She studied at the Free University
of Berlin and as a Fulbright Scholar at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard in 1991 and
taught at the University of Texas before coming to Dartmouth in 1994. Her
interests in German range from Goethe and Kleist to Grass and Christa Wolf,
and she has also published studies on Modern Greek literature.
Specializing in narrative theory and 20th-century cultural studies, she
has written articles concerning orality and literacy, feminist linguistics,
and the Holocaust. Her book on 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.
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