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Irene Kacandes

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