Rank: Associate Professor
Ph.D.: U.C. Berkeley (2002)
Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, academic year 2009-10
Affiliate Faculty in:
Selected Publications:
Books:
1.Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (Routledge, 2010)
2.Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
Articles:
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."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.“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.“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.“On Helmbrecht's Walk” in Camera Austria (Summer 2007): 2-13.
6.“Masking Nazi Violence in the Beautiful Landscape of the Obersalzberg” (forthcoming, Comparative Literature, Summer 2007)
7.“Contested, Constructed Home(lands): Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, and Zionism” (review essay, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, forthcoming)
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.“Anatole Broyard’s Human Stain: Performing Postracial Consciousness” in Philip Roth Studies 1:2 (Fall 2005): 125-144
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.‘“The Bitter Residue of Death’: Jorge Semprun and the Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory” in Comparative Literature 55: 4 (Fall 2003): 320-337
12."Aesthetic Pollution: Memory and Forgetting in Holocaust Monuments, Memorials, and Museums," in Modern Jewish Studies 2.1 (2003)
13."Pleasure, Memory, and Time Suspension: Celan, Proust, and Delbo," Comparative Literature Studies 39:1 (Fall, 2001)
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Areas of Interest:
Holocaust Representation (literature, contemporary art), Modern Jewish Literature, J.M. Coetzee