Held on February 11, 2015
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, discusses producing the writing necessary for publication. She explores writing with the purpose of interpretation and explanation of the capstone exhibit at QCC's Kupferberg Holocaust Center and performance at Queensborough Performing Arts Center.
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz is Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She earned her doctorate at Brandeis University and wrote her dissertation on second-generation experience. Research areas include second-generation literature and performance art, Australian Jewish and immigrant writing, conflicts and challenges of Jewish identity and graphic texts. She has participated as a scholar in workshops and seminars at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Her scholarship has been published in Australia, the United States, Germany, Brazil, Israel and India. Dr. Jacobowitz teaches Introduction to Literature, Exploring Graphic Genres and Holocaust Literature at QCC.
Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust by 
