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Professor Aleida Assmann FBA

English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2021
Subjects
Anthropology, Literature, Media, performance and communications
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

Current post

University of Konstanz Professor Emerita of English Literature

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