Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Massachusetts, 1992
  • B.A.: English literature, Smith College, 1980

Specialties

  • German Jewish studies
  • Holocaust and Memory studies
  • Comparative literature and literary theory
  • 20th- & 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry
  • Experimental poetry
  • Narrative medicine; psychoanalysis