- Bernard Bachrach
- Andrea M. Berlin
- Bruno Chaouat
- Michael Cherlin
- Gary B. Cohen
- Maria Damon
- Michelle Hamilton
- Benjamin M. Jacobs
- Alex Jassen
- Amy Kaminsky
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- Judith Katz
- Ronald R. Krebs
- Bernard M. Levinson
- Michael Lower
- Alex Lubet
- Leslie Morris
- Rick McCormick
- Karen Painter
- Riv-Ellen Prell
- Calvin Roetzel
- Andrew Scheil
- Renana Schneller
- Philip Sellew
- Eric D. Weitz
Associate Professor of German
Director, Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests
- German-Jewish Studies
- Literary Theory
- Contemporary Jewish literature and culture in Germany and Eastern Europe
- Post-1945 European Jewish poetry
- Translation theory
Selected Publications
"Placing and Displacing Jewish Studies: Notes on the Future of the Field." PMLA, forthcoming.
"How Jewish is it? W.G. Sebald and the Question of Contemporary German-Jewish Writing." The New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. Ed. Y Michal Bodemann. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 111-128.
"Translating Czernowitz: The Non-Place of East Central Europe." Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 31:1 (2007): 187-205.
"Der modifizierte Jude als Stigmatext." Erinnern und Geschlect Band II. Freiburger Frauenstudien, 2007. 85-101.
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany. Ed. with Karen Remmler. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000. Ed. with Jack Zipes. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2002.
"Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land": Reading History in the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001.
Courses
- Listening to German Anxiety: Sound and Memory
- Getting Lost with Kafka
- Diaspora Poetics
- Jewish and German Memory/Culture
- Jewish Writers in Germany, Central Europe, and America
- Out of Europe: Time, Place, and Memory Since 1945
- The Ability to Mourn: Melancholy and Elegy