Susanne Knittel
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication - Comp
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Susanne C. Knittel is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York (2011). In her research, she explores questions of memory, commemoration, and cultural amnesia; the figure of the perpetrator and the politics of memory; and the relationship between memory studies, disability studies, and posthumanism.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Knittel, S.C. (15.12.2014). The Historical Uncanny - Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory. (350 p.). New York: Fordham University Press.
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Knittel, S.C. (2014). Memory Redux: The foibe on Italian Television. Italianist, 34 (2), (pp. 170-185) (15 p.).
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Knittel, S.C. (2016). Autobiography, Moral Witnessing, and the Disturbing Memory of Nazi Euthanasia. In Mary Fulbrook, Stephanie Bird, Julia Wagner & Christiane Wienand (Eds.), Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond: Disturbing Pasts (pp. 65-81). London: Bloomsbury Academics.
