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Irene Kacandes
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Irene Kacandes, Professor of German and Comparative Literature,
chairs the Department of German Studies.
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. In 2001 The University of Nebraska Press issued her Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion as part of its "Frontiers of Narrative Series," and in 2009 it published Daddy's War: Greek American Storytelling, Family Memory, and Trauma. A Paramemoir.
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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