bakaplan@illinois.edu

Rank: Associate Professor

Ph.D.: U.C. Berkeley (2002)

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2. Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, academic year 2009-10
   

Affiliate Faculty in:

1. •Program in Jewish Culture and Society
   

Selected Publications:

1. Books:
   

1. 1.Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (Routledge, 2010)
   

2. 2.Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
   

1. Articles:
   

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1. 1."Holocaust Postmemory: W.G. Sebald and Gerhard Richter" (co-written with Fernando Matoses), Continuum Companion to Holocaust Literature. Jenni Adams, ed. Continuum (forthcoming)
   

2. 2."Double-Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: The Counterlife and Operation Shylock," Roth and Celebrity: An Edited Collection. Aimee Pozorski, ed. Lexington Books, 2012: 133-153.
   

3. 3.“Just Folks Homesteading: The Plots Against America,” forthcoming in Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, Debra Shostak, ed., Continuum Press
   

4. 4.“Exposing Violence, Amnesia, and the Fascist Forest through Susan Silas and Collier Schorr’s Holocaust Art,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Culture Vol 2 (2008): 110-128
   

5. 5.“On Helmbrecht's Walk” in Camera Austria (Summer 2007): 2-13.
   

6. 6.“Masking Nazi Violence in the Beautiful Landscape of the Obersalzberg” (forthcoming, Comparative Literature, Summer 2007)
   

7. 7.“Contested, Constructed Home(lands): Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, and Zionism” (review essay, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, forthcoming)
   

8. 8.“Susan Silas’s Helmbrecht’s Walk,” exhibition brochure for Silas’s show at the Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, November 3-December 18, 2005
   

9. 9.“Anatole Broyard’s Human Stain: Performing Postracial Consciousness” in Philip Roth Studies 1:2 (Fall 2005): 125-144
   

10. 10.“Reading Race and the Conundrums of Reconciliation in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain,” in Turning up the Flame: The Later Works of Philip Roth, Jay Halio and Ben Siegel, eds. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005): 172-193
    

11. 11.‘“The Bitter Residue of Death’: Jorge Semprun and the Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory” in Comparative Literature 55: 4 (Fall 2003): 320-337
    

12. 12."Aesthetic Pollution: Memory and Forgetting in Holocaust Monuments, Memorials, and Museums," in Modern Jewish Studies 2.1 (2003)
    

13. 13."Pleasure, Memory, and Time Suspension: Celan, Proust, and Delbo," Comparative Literature Studies 39:1 (Fall, 2001)