Phantom Geographies in Representations of the Holocaust

A public lecture by Kathryn Brackney (PhD candidate in History, Yale University)
2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies


Kathryn L. Brackney is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in modern European intellectual and cultural history. Her research has been supported by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, DAAD, and the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. Her dissertation is titled “Otherworldly Horizons: An Alternative History of Holocaust Consciousness.” Survivors of the Holocaust often use a language of “otherworldliness” to describe their war- time experiences, the European communities they left behind, and the spaces where they imagine their loved ones might live on. Brackney’s dissertation examines how the dimensions of these “other worlds” have shifted in the work of artists, writers and critics who have reflected on the Holocaust during the post-war period in Western Europe, North America, and Israel. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and a Master’s of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.
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