Vivian Liska

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Vivian Liska

Vivian Liska (born April 30, 1956 in New York City ) is an American German scholar . She is Professor of Modern German Literature and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp .

Career

Vivian Liska obtained a BA from the University of Maryland (European Division) in 1984. She then obtained a licentiate from the University of Antwerp in 1987 and received her doctorate there in 1996. From 1989 to 1990 she was a lecturer at the University of Maryland and was from 1991 to 1996 as an assistant at the University of Antwerp , initially as a “Lecturer”, from 1996 as a “Senior Lecturer”. In 2003 she became a professor and in 2008 a senior professor. Today she is professor of German literature and literary theory at the University of Antwerp and since 2001 director of the Institute for Jewish Studies. In 2012 she was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Republic of Austria for Science and Art .

Ms. Liska is often a visiting professor at universities and research centers abroad. She was a frequent guest at the University of Cologne , most recently in 2012 at the International Morphomata College . In 2014 she was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Works (monographs)

  • 2010. Hameshichut ha'rikah shel Giorgio Agamben . Tel Aviv: Resling.
  • 2009 (with Sascha Kirchner, Karl Solibakke, and Bernd Witte, eds.). Walter Benjamin and Viennese Judaism between 1900 and 1938 . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann.
  • 2009. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature . Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2009 (with Eva Meyer , eds.). What Does the Veil Know? . Vienna / New York: Springer.
  • 2008. Giorgio Agamben's empty messianism . Vienna: Schlebrugge.
  • 2007 (with Ortrud Gutjahr and Béatrice Dumiche, eds.). Gender differences as cultural conflicts . Bern: Peter Lang.
  • 2007 (with Thomas Nolden, eds.). Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide . Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2007 (with Astradur Eysteinsson, eds.). Modernism . 2 volumes. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamin.
  • 2007 (with Mark Gelber, eds.). Theodor Herzl between Europe and Zion . Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  • 2007 (with Arthur Cools, Sabine Hillen, and Erik Oger, eds.). De power van de sirene: kennis en verleiding in de modernity . Ghent: Academia Press.
  • 2006. Det utidssvarende i den tyske ekspressionisme . Aalborg: Aalborg Universitet.
  • 2005. Somewhere / Ergens . Wetteren: Cultura.
  • 2000. Modernism - one woman. Using the example of the novels Ricarda Huchs and Annette Kolbs . Tübingen: Francke.
  • 1998. The poet and the mischievous sublime. Else Lasker-Schüler's ' The Nights of Tino of Baghdads ' . Tübingen: Francke.
  • 1998 (with Geert Lernout, eds.). Between all chairs: Festschrift Jean-Paul Bier . Leuven: Acco.
  • 1993. The Night of Hymns: Paul Celan's Poems 1938-1944 . Bern: Peter Lang.

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personal data
SURNAME Liska, Vivian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City