Erin McGlothlin to speak on Holocaust literature April 17

April 6, 2006 -- Erin McGlothlin, Ph.D., 2006 faculty fellow and assistant professor of Germanic languages & literatures in Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Narrative Transgression in Contemporary German-Jewish Holocaust Literature" at 7 p.m. Monday, April 17, in McMillan Hall Café, Room 115.

The talk is free and open to the public. McMillan Café is located on Olympian Way, just north of the intersection with Forsyth Boulevard. For seat reservations or more information, call (314) 935-5576.

McGlothlin is the fifth of six speakers appearing this spring as part of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences' 2006 Faculty Fellows Lecture & Workshop Series. Her talk will investigate ways in which contemporary German-Jewish writing on the Holocaust overtly attempts to puncture the sacred taboo on Holocaust representation by deploying satire, irony, farce, the grotesque, the burlesque and the pornographic.

McGlothlin received her doctorate from the University of Virginia in 2001. Her research and teaching interests include postwar and contemporary German literature, Jewish Studies, narrative theory and autobiography. Her forthcoming book is entitled Second Generation Holocaust Literature and the Crisis of Signification: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration.

The Faculty Fellows series will conclude April 24 and 25 with Mariët Westermann, Ph.D., Directordof the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.