Memory, Trauma, and Holocaust Studies
Memory studies is a multidisciplinary field focusing on broader dimensions of social memory and the politics of public remembering. Faculty members also focus on trauma studies in literary and cultural theory as a tool of analysis for texts and media produced after the horror of the Holocaust, wars, dictatorships, exile and other traumatic conflicts, engaging with the following questions: How do we represent the past to ourselves and to others? Which of our many pasts do we represent, and when, where, and why do we change those representations?
Literature and Culture, film, visual Arts, memory and trauma, Spanish Civil War, women writers, cultural studies, Transatlantic studies, and gender studies
Ana Corbalán
Professor of Spanish
Renata Fuchs
Instructor of German
Romanticism to Postmodernism, intellectual history, philosophy, visual arts, women’s writing, minority literatures, Holocaust studies, German-Jewish literature, translation studies
Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo
Instructor of Spanish
Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies, migration and Border Studies, gender studies, women writers, testimonial genres, translation studies, literary publishing
20th Century Italian history and literature, political history, memory studies, translation and translation theory, representations of Italian language and history in international media
Annemarie Lisko
Instructor of Italian
Modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies
Alessandra Montalbano
Associate Professor of Italian
Laura Rojas-Arce
Instructor of Spanish