Contributors | Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts, Canons, Circulations

Editors

Chief Editors

Erin McGlothlin, Washington University in St. Louis

Erin McGlothlin is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of German and Jewish Studies, and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of Holocaust literature and film and German-Jewish literature. She is the author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (2006) and The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (2021). Further, she has co-edited four volumes: After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Digital Media (2009, with Lutz Koepnick), Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (2016, with Jennifer Kapczynski), The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its Outtakes (2020, with Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger), and Lessons and Legacies Vol. XV: The Holocaust; Global Perspectives, National Narratives, Local Context (2024, with Avinoam Patt). Additionally, she has published articles in major journals and edited volumes on fictional and non-fictional works of Holocaust literature and film as well as on such topics as the generational discourse on the Holocaust, the narrative structure of Holocaust literature and film, perpetrator representation and perpetrator trauma, and ethical questions related to Holocaust representation. McGlothin is co-editor (with Brad Prager) of the Camden House book series Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture, and Thought, and she serves on the editorial boards of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies.

Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds

Stuart Taberner is Professor of German at the University of Leeds. His research interests include postwar German literature, culture and society; German Jewish Studies; and Holocaust Studies. He has published four monographs on contemporary German and German-Jewish literature, and has edited or co-edited fourteen volumes, and written numerous articles. He currently co-leads the Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature, which brings together 45 experts from around the world working on Holocaust literature published in many different languages. This project is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Stuart has also worked extensively with museums, galleries, and theatres on Holocaust education projects and with government departments, international organisations, NGOs and charities on global development and human rights. He has many years experience in research management, at the UK’s research and innovation body (UK Research and Innovation) and, currently, as Director for the Horizons Institute, a cross-campus interdisciplinary research incubator at the University of Leeds.

Associate Editors

McKenna Marko, University of Leeds

McKenna Marko is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, UK. She earned her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan where she specialized in (post)Yugoslav and Hungarian literature. Her dissertation Spatial Mediations of the Holocaust in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav Art examined the relationship between different media of memory and memorial spaces in the former Yugoslavia in creating diverse sites of Holocaust remembrance. Her current work covers transnational Holocaust memory, translation, and women’s experiences of the Holocaust and state-sanctioned terror in Central and Southeastern Europe. Together with Erin McGlothlin and Christin Zühlke, she is the editor of the forthcoming volume New Approaches to Teaching Holocaust Literature.

Diane Otosaka, University of Leeds

Dr Diane Otosaka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature at the University of Leeds, where she also completed her PhD in French Studies in 2022. Her research interests include contemporary French-language literature; French critical theory; memory studies; Holocaust studies; trauma studies; and spectrality studies. She has co-edited the volume Dreams and Atrocities: The Oneiric in Representations of Trauma (Manchester University Press, 2023) and has published articles and book chapters on contemporary French Holocaust writing.

Christin Zühlke, Washington University in St. Louis

Christin Zühlke is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Her research focuses on Jewish experiences and responses to the Holocaust, with a specific emphasis on gender and religious aspects. Her research interests also address Holocaust memory, Yiddish, Jewish and Holocaust Museums, Modern Jewish Thought, and Pop Culture. In her postdoctoral research, she comprehensively studies Jewish masculinities in Elie Wiesel’s writings. Her Ph.D. project analyzed the Yiddish writings of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau with an emphasis on Jewish Cultural Studies and Jewish as well as Holocaust Literature. She co-published 2023 New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust and 2022 Die Nacht, a German translation of Elie Wiesel’s La Nuit (with the Elie Wiesel Research Center). She co-edits New Approaches to Teaching Holocaust Literature, the Elie Wiesel Research Series as well as the annotated 24-volume edition of Elie Wiesel Werke (Works of Elie Wiesel.)

Contributors

Sandra Alfers, Western Washington University

Sarah Casteel, Carleton University

Stef Craps, Ghent University

Peter Davies, University of Edinburgh

Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University

Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London

Natalie Eppelsheimer, Middlebury College

Helen Finch, University of Leeds

Saskia Fischer, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Adrian Furtuna, Romanian Academy and National Center for Roma Culture

Dorota Glowacka, University of King’s College