Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Remembering, Representing, Reframing
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Remembering, Representing, Reframing is now on exhibit on the first-floor of Henderson Library near the Academic Success Center.
The exhibition is the result of graduate student research from the course ENGL 7239 Holocaust and Gender, a Special Topics course in Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of English MA.
Students did research in Washington DC at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany (online). They focused on the rhetoric of public memory in national Holocaust museums, seeking to discover how gender might appear in these historical and memory narratives.
What the students found became a fascinating story about what we remember, how we present it, and how that story may or may not do justice to the gendered nature of those experiences.
This research was funded by a Germany on Campus grant, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Humanities. Further funding was provided by the Office of the President (GS), the College of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
For more information visit our guide or contact Dr. Lisa A. Costello.