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ERIN MCGLOTHLIN

Assistant Professor of German

Phone 314.935.4288, Fax 314.935.7255

mcglothlin@wustl.edu

Erin McGlothlin is Assistant Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in German from the University of Virginia in 2001.

Professor McGlothlin’s main research interests are in the areas of German-Jewish literature and the literature of the Holocaust. She is the author of Second Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006). Its subject is the literary responses of a generation of writers powerfully shaped by the Holocaust, an event with which they have had no direct experience. With its innovative focus on the literature of both the children of Holocaust survivors and that of perpetrators, the book investigates the ways in which second generation writers employ similar tropes of stigmatization in an attempt to express their uneasy relationship to their parents’ respective histories. Additional publications include articles on Ruth Klüger, Robert Menasse, Fred Wander, Art Spiegelman, Bernhard Schlink, Martin Amis, Maxim Biller, Rafael Seligmann, Barbara Honigmann, Edgar Hilsenrath and Jane Campion.

In addition to a comparative focus on the literature of the Holocaust, Professor McGlothlin’s research and teaching interests include postwar and contemporary German literature, Jewish Studies, narrative theory and autobiography. Courses she has taught include Twentieth Century German and American Autobiography, Comparative Literary Theory, The Figure of the Feminine in German Drama, Imagining the Holocaust in Contemporary Jewish Literature, Yiddish Literature in English Translation, Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Literature, Childhood in Crisis: Children and Youth in the Third Reich, and Representing the Holocaust.

In Spring 2006, Professor McGlothlin was a faculty fellow at the Washington University Center for the Humanities. In Summer 2006, she was in residence as a research fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Musuem’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. She is a 2007 recipient of a Washington University Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. In Summer 2008, she received a grant from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies to study Yiddish at Indiana University.

Office Ridgley Hall 421	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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