Courses
ENGLISH 201: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
ENGLISH 581: SEMINAR IN LITERARY THEORY -- TOPIC: MODERN CRITICAL THEORY: AN ADVANCED INTRODUCTION
ENGLISH 452: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1945-PRESENT
ENGLISH 581: SEMINAR IN LITERARY THEORY -- TOPIC: Modern Critical Theory
ENGLISH 453: Politics and Form in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture
ENGLISH 296 &G: Cultures of Globalization
ENGLISH 362 P: Literature of the Holocaust
ENGLISH 463 R: Literature and Theory After Auschwitz
ENGLISH 352 F: American Contemporary Literature, 1945 to the Present
Current Positions
August 2001-present: Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
August 2003-present: Director, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Experience
1995-2001: Assistant Professor of English. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
Spring 1995: Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Studies. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
1993-1994: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature. Queens College.
Education
1991-1995: City University of New York Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY. Department of Comparative Literature. M.Phil. 1994. Ph.D. 1995.
Dissertation: "Documenting Barbarism: Memory, Culture, and Modernity After the 'Final Solution.'" [Dissertation director: Nancy K. Miller]
1988-1989: Duke University, Durham, NC . Graduate course work in literature and theory, Program in Literature.
1984-1988: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. B.A degree in English and Linguistics with Highest Honors, 1988.
1986-1987: American Center for Film and Literary Criticism, Paris, France. Course work in French film theory and literary criticism.
Awards and Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois, 2004-2005
Visiting Research Fellow, Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Summer 2004
Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent, University of Illinois, Fall 2004.
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Faculty Fellow, 2003-2004.
University of Illinois Research Board, Humanities Released Time, Fall 2002.
University of Illinois Research Board, Research Assistance, Spring 2002.
Max Orovitz Summer Research Award, University of Miami, 1996, 1997, 1999.
Visiting Fellow, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, Fall 1998.
General Research Award, University of Miami, 1997.
Course Development Fellowship, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 1996.
Fellow, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, 1996.
Margaret M. Bryant Dissertation Award in Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, 1996.
Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 1994-1995.
"J. & O. Winter" Holocaust Research Fellowship, 1994-1995.
Phi Beta Kappa & Highest Honors, Swarthmore College, 1988.
Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism, Swarthmore College, 1988.
Publications
Books
Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2000).
The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, ed. Michael Rothberg and Neil Levi (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP & New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003).
Articles and Review Essays
“Beyond Eichmann: Rethinking the Emergence of Holocaust Memory.” History and Theory (forthcoming).
“Between Auschwitz and Algeria: Multidirectional Memory and the Counterpublic Witness.” Critical Inquiry 33.1 (2006): 158-84.
“The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer, Cinéma Vérité, and the Emergence of the Holocaust Survivor.” PMLA 119.5 (2004): 1231-46. [French translation: “Le témoignage à l’âge de la décolonisation: Chronique d’un été, cinéma-vérité et emergence du survivant de l’Holocauste,” tr. Jean-Louis Jeannelle. Littérature. Special issue: “Et la critique américaine?” 144 (December 2006).]
“Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon’s Posthumous Communication.” African American Review 37.4 (2003): 501-16.
“Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Towards an Ethics of the Borderlands.” With Neil Levi. Symploke 11.1-2 (2003): 23-38.
“After the Witness: A Report from the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale.” With Jared Stark. History and Memory 15.1 (Spring/Summer 2003): 85-96.
“W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw: Holocaust Memory and the Color Line, 1949-1952.” Yale Journal of Criticism 14.1 (2001): 169-189.
“Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Special Issue: Extremities: Memoirs at the Fin de Siècle. 14.1 (Summer 1999): 93-107. [French translation forthcoming in Tangence (2007).]
"After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe," New German Critique 72 (Fall 1997): 45-81. [Hungarian translation: “Adorno utan—kultura a katasztrofa masnapjan.” Enigma 37-38 (2003): 59-88.]
"Documenting Barbarism: Yourcenar's Male Fantasies, Theweleit's Coup," Cultural Critique 29 (Winter 1994-95): 77-105.
"'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production," Contemporary Literature 35.4 (1994): 661-687.
"Small Acts, Global Acts: Paul Gilroy's Transnationalism," Found Object 4 (Fall 1994): 17-26.
"Sites of Memory, Sites of Forgetting: Jewishness and Cultural Studies," Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 111-118.
"Marketing Power: The Seduction of Rhetoric in Molière's Dom Juan," Romanic Review vol. 84.4 (November 1993): 387-404.
"The Prostitution of Paris: Late Capital of the Twentieth Century," Found Object 1 (Fall 1992): 2-22.
"An Emblematic Ideology: Images and Additions in Two Editions of Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans," English Literary Renaissance 22.1 (Winter 1992): 80-94.
"Marxism after Post-Marxism," Socialist Review 92/1 (1992): 113-120.
Book Chapters
“Multidirectional Memory and the Universalization of the Holocaust.” Jeffrey Alexander, et al, Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“The Reception of Primo Levi in the United States.” With Jonathan Druker. The International Reception of Primo Levi, ed. Yannis Thanassekos and Philippe Mesnard (Brussels: Fondation Auschwitz, forthcoming).
“Roth and the Holocaust.” The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth. Ed. Timothy Parrish. (New York: Cambridge UP, 2007), 52-67.
“Construction Work: Theory, Migration, and Labor in an Age of Globalization.” On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Ed. Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan (Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2005), 117-41.
“Pedagogy and the Politics of Memory: ‘The Countermonument Project.’” Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust. Ed. Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes (New York: MLA, 2004), 466-76.
"Le Coup de grâce as Male Fantasy: On the Sexual Politics of Fascism." Subversive Subjects: Rereading Marguerite Yourcenar. Ed. Judith Sarnecki (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004). [revised version of Cultural Critique article]
“Theory and the Holocaust.” With Neil Levi. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Ed. N. Levi and M. Rothberg (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP and New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003), 1-22.
“’There Is No Poetry In This’: Writing, Trauma, and Home.” Trauma at Home: After 9/11. Ed. Judith Greenberg (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003), 147-57.
"'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production." Considering Maus. Ed. Deborah Geis (Tuscaloosa and London: U of Alabama P, 2003), 137-58. [reprint of Contemporary Literature article]
“Geoffrey Hartman.” Holocaust Literature. Ed. Lilian Kremer (New York: Routledge, 2002), 520-23.
“Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism.” Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. Ed. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002), 55-70. [reprint of a/b article]
“The Year of the Holocaust: Memory, Genocide, and Jewish-American Identity.” Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millenium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 19-24 1996 [CDROM], Editors: Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor (Utrecht: ISSEI/University of Humanist Studies, 1998).
"Maurice Blanchot's War: A/Wake 'After Auschwitz,'" Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference in French and Comparative Literature, March 4-5, 1994 (New York: Columbia UP, 1994) 6-12.
Short Reviews and Essays
“Against Zero-Sum Logic: A Response to Walter Benn Michaels.” American Literary History 18.2 (2006): 303-11.
“Prince Harry, Alberto Gonzalez, and Holocaust Memory: A View from the US.” OpenDemocracy Readers’ Forum. Online. Posted: Feb. 7, 2005. Available FTP: http://www.opendemocracy.net/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=93&threadID=43888&tstart=0
Rev. of Susan Gubar, Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. Biography (Summer 2004).
Rev. of Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: Memories of a Holocaust Girlhood. The Catholic Worker (June-July 2002): 7.
Rev. of Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Criticism 43.4 (2001): 478-84.
Conference Rev. of “Marxism 2000: The Party’s Not Over.” Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books (2001, Issue 1). Online. Available FTP: http://laurel.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?Key=84.
Rev. of Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory After Auschwitz. Modern Language Quarterly 60.2 (June 1999): 277-82.
"Respect political enemies." [Editorial on Rabin assassination.] The Miami Herald 9 Nov. 1995: 27A.
"The Politics of Peace in the Middle East," edited, with introduction, a special section of Found Object 3 (Spring 1994): 64-90.
"Possible Selves, Realizable Futures." Review of Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. Christianity and Crisis (18 Nov. 1991).
"Life As We Almost Know It." Review of Don DeLillo, Mao II. Christianity and Crisis (7 Oct. 1991).
"Faces of Populist Fascism." Review of Blood in the Face, dir. James Ridgeway. Christianity and Crisis (13 May 1991).
Rev. of Marc Ellis, Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Confronting the Holocaust and Israeli Power. The Catholic Worker (Jan.-Feb. 1991).
"Tompkins Square: The Politics of Space." Christianity and Crisis (6 Nov. 1989).
Other Media
Radio interview, “Literature after 9/11,” WGLT, Normal, IL, 29 September 2006.
Radio interview, “Literature by Child Survivors of the Holocaust,” What’s the Word?, MLA, 2004.
Interviews
"Political Subjects: Nationalism, Insurrection, Democracy: An Interview with Etienne Balibar," with A. Lao and B. Martinsons, Found Object 6 (Fall 1995): 15-32.
"'To Speak about Hitchcock was a Political Act': An Interview with Slavoj Zizek," with A. Long and T. McGann, Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 93-110.
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