Free and open to the public

GREENSBURG, Pa. - Dr. Alan Rosen, lecturer in Holocaust Literature at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem in Israel, will discuss “Literary Responses to the Holocaust” during a guest lecture at Seton Hill University on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 7 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Greensburg Room (below Cecilian Hall) on Seton Hill’s Greensburg, Pa. campus. This program is sponsored by the University’s National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education (NCCHE) and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact NCCHE at 724-830-1033.

In his lecture, Dr. Rosen will explore how literary responses to the Holocaust differ from other approaches, as well as how the different languages shape each response to the Holocaust. He will examine works of key authors including poets Avraham Sutzkever and Paul Celan; story writer and novelist John Hersey; scholar Yaffa Eliach; and storyteller and artist Art Spiegelman.

Dr. Rosen earned his doctoral degree in literature and religion at Boston University in1988 and has taught at universities, colleges, and middle schools in Israel and in the United States. In addition, he has given seminars on the Holocaust in many community settings. Dr. Rosen is also the author of “Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism and the Problem of English;” the collaborator on a French edition of “I Did Not Interview the Dead,” by David Boder; and the editor of “Approaches to Teaching Wiesel’s ‘Night’.” Dr. Rosen has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; and the Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is a research fellow at Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, working on a book entitled “That Great and Mournful Past: David Boder and the Ethnography of Holocaust Testimony.” Dr. Rosen was born and raised in Los Angeles, educated in Boston, and now resides in Jerusalem with his wife and four children.