Leslie C Morris
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Educational Background & Specialties
Specialties
- 20th- & 21st-century German & Austrian literature & poetry
- Jewish studies
- comparative literature and literary theory
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Courses Taught
- Remediating the Holocaust
- Place and Displacement: Transnational German-Jewish Culture
- Interrogating the Archive
- Translation Unbound
- Marginalia
- 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
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- Director, Center for Jewish Studies : 2002 - 2009
- Association for Jewish Studies: Vice President for Publications , 2011 - 2015
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Publications
- Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans and the Transnational. Morris, Leslie, Jay Geller, University of Michigan Press, Co-Editor, 2016.
- “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.
- German Studies and Jewish Studies: Symbiosis of Two Fields: Morris, Leslie, German Studies Review, Special 40th anniversary issue , 2016.
- “Reading H.G. Adler (tangentially).” In “H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy." Eds. Julia Creet, Sara Horowitz and Amira Dan. Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2016.
- "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.
- “Placing and Displacing Jewish Studies: Notes on the Future of the Field.“ PMLA 125:3 (May 2010): 764-773.
- “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.
- German Quarterly. Guest editor, special issue on German-Jewish and Jewish-German Studies. 82:3: 2009.
- “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.
- “Translating Czernowitz: The Non-Place of East Central Europe.“Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature (31:1, 2007): 187-205.
- “Der modifizierte Jude als Stigmatext.“Erinnern und Geschlecht Volume II.Freiburger Frauenstudien (2007): 85-101.
- “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.
- Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis 1945-2000. Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes, eds. New York; Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
- “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.
- Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany. Leslie Morris and Karen Remmler, eds. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
- “Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land“: Reading History in the Poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann. Tí¼bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001.