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Specialties
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20th- & 21st-century German & Austrian literature & poetry
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Jewish studies
Publications
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Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis 1945-2000. Morris, Leslie C, co-editor, Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2002.
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany. Morris, Leslie C, co-editor, University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
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Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land: Reading History in the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001.. Morris, Leslie C.
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"Berlin Elegies: Absence, Postmemory and Art after Auschwitz." Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jackobowitz. eds. Image and Remembrance: The Holocaust in Art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003: 288-304.
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"The Sound of Memory." Sites of Memory. Spec. Issue of German Quarterly 74.4 (2002): 368-378.
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German Quarterly. Special issue on German-Jewish Studies. Forthcoming 2009.
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'Placing and Displacing Jewish Studies.' PMLA. Forthcoming 2009.
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"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 Diaspora. Ed. Y. Michal Bodemann. Palgrave Macmillan: 2008: 111-128.
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"Der modifizierte Jude als Stigmatext." Erinnern und Geschlecht Volume II.Freiburger Frauenstudien (2007): 85-101.
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"Translating Czernowitz: The Non-Place of East Central Europe." Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature (31:1, 2007): 187-205.
Professional Activities
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Director, Center for Jewish Studies : 2002 - 2009
Courses Taught
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Listening to German Anxiety: Sound and Memory
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Getting Lost with Kafka
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Diaspora Poetics
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Death in Vienna
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Secrecy and Surveillance
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Jewish and German Memory/Culture
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Out of Europe: Time, Place, and Memory Since 1945
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The Ability to Mourn: Melancholy and Elegy
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