Irene Kacandes

Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
E-mail: Irene.Kacandes@Dartmouth.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Harvard University, Comparative Literature

Jewish Studies Courses Taught

• JWST 37.2/CL 64/GER 43: Burden of the Nazi Past: World War, Genocide and Firebombing
• JWST 37.3/CL 64/HIST 58: Representing the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Survival

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.