"Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen." ------- "La poésie ne s’impose plus, elle s’expose." Paul Celan


Education

Ph.D. Emory University M.A. University of Georgia B.A. Maximilian U,Munich,Germany


Fields of Expertise

Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, Visiting Assistant Professor of French &German


Professional Highlights

“Mediating Languages: Translating the Other,” Symposium on Language and Gender, Spring 2008; SU Tournées French Film Series, 2007 “Trauma, Memory and Testimony,” a special issue of Reading On: a journal of theory and criticism 1 (October 2006) http://readingon.library.emory.edu

Personal Highlights

Twentieth and twenty-first-century German and French Literature and Contempoary Cinema, Holocaust Studies, the poetics of witness and testimony, trauma studies, literary theory



Petra Schweitzer


Foreign Languages

Cooley, 114
540-545-7380
pschweit@su.edu

Faculty Member since 2006