Ph.D., Harvard University
Associate Professor, departments of German Studies and Comparative
Literature
Graduate Director, Comparative Literature
Recent Scholarship:
“WITNESS” Special Issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly.
Eds. Irene Kacandes and Kathryn Abrams. May 2008.
Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion (University of
Nebraska Press, 2001)
Co-editor, A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (University of
Michigan Press, 1997)
Co-editor, Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (Modern
Language Assoc., 2005)
“Making the Stranger the Enemy: Gertrud Kolmar’s Eine jüdische
Mutter.” Women in German Yearbook 19 (2003)
“From Deconstruction to Postcolonialism, 1980-Present.” In German
Studies in the USA: A Historical Handbook. Gen. Ed. Peter U.
Hohendahl. (New York: MLA, 2003)
“9/11/01 = 1/27/01: The Changed Post-Traumatic Self.” In
9/11: Trauma at Home. Ed. Judith Greenberg (University
of Nebraska Press, 2002).
Interests:
Gender and Linguistics
Violence against Women and Children
Gender and Memory
African American Women Novelists
Trauma Theory.
Courses:
Sex, Gender and Society
Trauma and Prose Fiction
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