Tales That Touch - Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture

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Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.


Bettina Brandt, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Yasemin Yildiz, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.