Rebekah Slodounik

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia
• M.A., Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia
• B.A., Germanic Languages & Literatures, English Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

Research Interests

• German Jewish literature and culture
• American Jewish literature
• Holocaust Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Memory Studies
• Narrative theory

Teaching Interests:

• German language, literature, and culture
• German Jewish literature and culture
• Representation of the Holocaust
• Antisemitism

Selected Publications

ARTICLES

"German, Jewish, and Female: Encounters with Antisemitism in Mirna Funk's Winternähe (2015) and Deborah Feldman's Überbitten (2017)." Feminist German Studies. 39.1. (Spring/Summer 2023): 147-172.

“‘Once Upon a Time in Marseille’: Displacement and the Fairy Tale in Anna Seghers’ Transit.” Special Issue of Humanities: “Revisiting German Jewish Writing and Culture, 1945-1975.” Eds. Erin McGlothlin and Corey Twitchell. Humanities 2019: 8 (4). 1 November 2019.

“Postmemorial Autobiography in Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.35.1. (Fall 2016): 29-50.