Expert on Jewish Literature and Culture Visits Campus

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Professor Leslie Morris

Please join the German Program, the Humanities Program, and the Multicultural Center for Jewish Spaces in Berlin: Textual/Digital/Sacred/Provisional by visiting professor Leslie Morris.

Morris is an associate professor of German at the University of Minnesota. She served as director of the center for Jewish studies at the University of Minnesota from 2002-2009. She is the author of a book on history and memory in Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry, and the co-editor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany and Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis.

She has written numerous articles on the poetics of memory; diaspora; Czernowitz; German-Jewish Studies; translation and Jewish text; Jewish body art; and sound and acoustic memory of the Holocaust. She is currently completing a book, The Translated Jew: Jewish Writing Outside the Margins, and is co-editing a volume of essays, Three-Way Street: German, Jews, and the Transnational.

Morris’ lecture will begin at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, in room 149 of the J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Center for Academic Excellence (JBHT).