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.
