Phyllis Lassner
Professor, Writing Program, Gender Studies, and Jewish Studies,
(Ph.D. Wayne State University)
Office: Kresge 2-250
E-mail: phyllisl@northwestern.edu
Professor Phyllis Lassner teaches courses on Holocaust literature and film that are cross-listed with the WCAS Gender Studies and Writing Programs. Her research interests and publications include two books on the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, articles on modern women writers, British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own, Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and most recently, Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust. She has also written introductions to Holocaust memoirs and is currently working with a group of Chicago area survivors on their anthology of stories about being hidden children. Professor Lassner has created and edits the book series "Cultural Expressions of World War II and the Holocaust: Preludes, Responses, Memory" for Northwestern University Press.
Jewish Studies Courses
English 205 Writing About Children and the Holocaust
Gender Studies 390 Gender, Race and the Holocaust
Jewish Studies 350 Representing the Holocaust in Literature and Film
