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Judith Greenberg

Part-time Faculty
judithira@gmail.com
431 - 1 Wash Pl

Office Hours
Tuesday 11:00 TO 12:30
Thursday 11:00 TO 12:30

B.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1988
M.Phil., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1993
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1996

Judith Greenberg's research and teaching interests focus on questions of memory and trauma Studies, especially through a feminist lens. She holds a degree in comparative literature and her courses are informed by psychoanalysis, film Studies, Holocaust Studies, and her years teaching in French departments. She is the editor of Trauma at Home: After 9/11 and author of a variety of chapters and articles related to trauma and its representations, including "Trauma and Transmission: Echoes of the Missing in Dora Bruder" (Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature), "Surviving Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After: How to Arrive and Depart," (in the MLA publication Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust), "Paths of Resistance: French Women Working from the Inside," (in Experience and Expression: Women, Nazis and the Holocaust) and "The Trauma of Echo and the Echo of Trauma," (in American Imago). She has also taught and written about Virginia Woolf, including publications in Woolf Studies Annual and Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Greenberg received Gallatin's Jewish Studies grant in 2007 for a manuscript on which she is currently working, Cypora's Shadow, which takes a cousin's memoir written in a Polish ghetto during the final days before the ghetto's liquidation and then explores the trans-generational transmission of trauma, particularly from mothers to daughters.

Awards & Honors

2020

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Trained in comparative literature at Yale, Judith Greenberg specializes in issues having to do with memory and trauma. She also writes and teaches about 20th century French and English literature, often focusing on questions of narrative and gender. She has published academic articles on the role of trauma in literature, from the novels of Virginia Woolf to writers responding to the Holocaust authors such as Charlotte Delbo and Patrick Modiano. She edited Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (Nebraska Press, 2003), a collection of essays by writers, psychologists, photographers and academics both in New York and around the world as they responded to the attacks within months of 9/11. Her current manuscript, Cypora’s Echo, tells how she turned to study her own family after discovering a diary from 1942 written by a 25-year-old cousin who was a young mother trapped in a ghetto in Siedlce, Poland.  

Teaching and Research Interests

20th-century French and British literature; trauma studies  psychoanalysis; women’s studies; Holocaust studies 

Recent News

PUBLICATIONS

Greenberg’s article, “A Situation of Fear: Revisiting Sartre in Trump’s America,” was published in the Studies in American Jewish Literature Journal.

EXHIBITION

Work from her forthcoming book, Cipa’s Echo: A Mother, a Daughter and a Holocaust Legacy, was featured in art exhibition titled, “School Photos and Their Afterlives,” at Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire, curated by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer. 

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Greenbergs’s book-related trip to Poland was featured in the Polish National Press, Gazeta Wyborcza, and by NGO Forum Dialogu and featured in local Siedlce Press.

Judith Greenberg