Leslie Morris

Publications

• The Translated Jew: German Jewish Culture outside the Margins. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
• Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis 1945-2000. Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes, eds. New York; Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
• “Placing and Displacing Jewish Studies: Notes on the Future of the Field.“ PMLA 125:3 (May 2010): 764-773.
• “Epistemology of the Hyphen: German-Jewish/-Holocaust Studies." In Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies. Eds. Jennifer Kapczysnki and Erin McGlothlin. Camden House, 2016: 107-119.
• “Reading H.G. Adler (tangentially).” In H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy. Eds. Julia Creet, Sara Horowitz and Amira Dan. Northwestern University Press, 2016: 375-391.
• “German Studies and Jewish Studies: Symbiosis of Two Fields.” German Studies Review. 2016: 601-610.
• Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany. Leslie Morris and Karen Remmler, eds. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
• German Quarterly. Guest editor, special issue on German-Jewish and Jewish-German Studies. 82:3: 2009.
• "The Translated j/je/jew/Jude/Juif." In Trans-lation - trans-nation - trans-formation. íœbersetzen und jí¼dische Kulturen. Eds. Petra Ernst, Hans-Joachim Hahn, Daniel Hoffmann, Dorothea Salzer. Studienverlag (Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen). 2012: 207-216.
• “Spuren Europas im jí¼dish-amerikanischen Schreiben: Alfred Kazin.“ Abschied von Europa. Jí¼disches Schreiben zwischen 1930 und 1950. Eds. Alfred Bodenheimer und Barbara Breysach. Edition text + kritik, 2010: 123-141.
• “Austrian Jewish Studies?“ Contemporary Austrian Studies: 18 (2010): 348-350.
• “How Jewish is German Studies? How German is Jewish Studies?“ German Quarterly. Special issue on German-Jewish and Jewish-German Studies. 82:3: 2009: vii-xii.
• “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.
• “Poesie und Verlust: Zur í„sthetik in Rose Auslí¤nders Lyrik.“ Ed. Jens Birkmeyer. "Blumenworte welkten:" Identití¤t und Fremdheit in Rose Auslí¤nders Lyrik. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag: 2008: 67-76.
• “Der modifizierte Jude als Stigmatext.“ Erinnern und Geschlecht Volume II.Freiburger Frauenstudien (2007): 85-101.
• “Translating Czernowitz: The Non-Place of East Central Europe.“ Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature (31:1, 2007): 187-205.
• “Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land“: Reading History in the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann. Tí¼bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001.
• “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.
• “The Sound of Memory.“ German Quarterly 74.4 (2002): 368-378.
• “Postmemory, Postmemoir.“ Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes, eds. Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis 1945-2000. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2002. 291-306.
• Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans and the Transnational. Jay Geller, University of Michigan Press, Morris, Leslie, 2016.
• "She Did Not Speak." Georgia Review (Winter 2018, Vol. LXXII, no. 4):877-896.

Activities

Courses Taught

• Interrogating the Archive
• Listening to German Anxiety: Sound and Memory
• Getting Lost with Kafka
• Diaspora Poetics
• Death in Vienna
• Secrecy and Surveillance
• Jewish and German Memory/Culture
• Out of Europe: Time, Place, and Memory Since 1945
• The Holocaust: Memory, History, Narrative
• The Unconcealed: Experiments in Poetry
• Remediating the Holocaust
• Place and Displacement: Transnational German-Jewish Culture
• Marginalia
• Translation Unbound