Faculty
Bos, Pascale
Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.160
Phone:512-232-6373
pascale.r.bos@mail.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research interests:
Post 45 German and German-Jewish literature and culture, modern Dutch literature and culture, modern Jewish literature, history, and culture in Western Europe and U.S., Holocaust in literature, film, and history, ethnic minorities in Western Europe, theoretical perspectives on autobiography, cultural memory, trauma, race and gender.
Courses taught:
Professor Bos teaches for the Liberal Arts Honors and plan II programs, as well as for the European Studies, Jewish Studies, Women's and Gender Studies and Comparative Literature Programs. She enjoys teaching writing component courses. Most recent offerings: After Effects: The Holocaust in Culture, Philosophy and Literature after 1945, Women and the Holocaust, Redefining Germany's Memory, Too Tolerant? Understanding Dutch Culture in International Perspective, Anne Frank and After: Holocaust Literature in Context, Introduction to Jewish Studies: Jewish Culture and Identity after Modernity, GRADUATE COURSES: Modern Memoir from Frank to Faux, Foundations III: Research Seminar (WGS), Methods of Cultural Studies: Cultural Memory and Trauma, German Literature from Naturalism to the Present, Holocaust Memory: Jewish Second Generation Literature in U.S., Germany, Netherlands
Recent Publications:
"Feminists Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin 1945, Yugoslavia 1992-3." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Summer 2006 31:4 (995-1025).
"Adopted Memory: The Holocaust, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity in America." Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race. Volume 13. 2006. 97-108. (Special Issue "Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts andPolitics.")
"'Tegendraads' (Against the Grain): Andreas Burnier's Radical Rethinking of Gender." Dutch Crossing: A Journal of Low Countries Studies 30: 2 (2006) 31-42.
German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address. New York: Palgave/St. Martin's Press, 2005.
"Homoeroticism and the Liberated Woman as Tropes of Subversion: Grete Weil's Literary Provocations." German Quarterly. Vol. 78.1 Winter 2005. 70-87.