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Irene Kacandes

Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature

Education

  • Ph.D. Harvard University, Comparative Literature

Jewish Studies or Associated Courses Taught

  • JWST37.2/CL64/GER43:  Burden of the Nazi Past: World War, Genocide and  Firebombing
  • JWST37.3/CL64/HIST58:  Representing the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Survival
  • COLT 39: Trauma and Prose Fiction
  • GERM 10: The Individual and the Nation in 19th-Century Germany
  • GERM 64: Contemporary German Identity

E-mail: Irene.Kacandes@Dartmouth.ED

Recent Scholarship

  • Coeditor, A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (U Michigan P 1997)
  • Author of "Narrative Witnessing as Memory Work: Reading Gertrud Komar's A Jewish Mother" In Acts of Memory, eds. Mieke Bal, Joanthan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer. U P New England, 1999, 55-71

Interests vis a vis Jewish Studies

  • German-Jewish 19th and 20th-century culture
  • Holocaust Studies, antisemitism, and Neonazism

Member, Graduate Committee Comparative Literature, Steering Committee Women's Studies.

Last Updated: 10/22/08