Biography
Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita in the Cook Family Writing Program, Jewish Studies, and Gender Studies Programs at Northwestern University. Her research and teaching interests have produced publications about Holocaust literature, film, and art, women writers of the 1930s, World War II, and after. In addition to many articles, her books include British Women Writers of World War II, Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire, and Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust. Since retirement, she published the book Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film. Along with other collections, she co-edited the volumes Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Since retirement, she co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, Holocaust Literature and Representation, and Gisella Perl’s memoir, I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. She was awarded the International Diamond Jubilee Fellowship at Southampton University, UK and serves on the Education and Exhibition Committees of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center where she most recently presented her research on the Kindertransport. In January 2024 she delivered the inaugural annual winter public lecture for the Holocaust Education Foundation.
phyllisl@northwestern.edu