The University of Leeds

Faculty Member, Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies

Montague Burton Fellow

Thesis Title: Memories and Positionalities: Holocaust Memory, Migration and 'Otherness' in Renationalised Germany

About

Annette Seidel-Arpacı is currently the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. From 2010-11, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. From 2008-10, Annette has worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University. She studied at the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH) at the University of Leeds. She holds an MA and PhD from Leeds, has received several scholarship and fellowships from British and Israeli institutions and has been a resident scholar at the Library of Congress in 2006. From 2005-2008, Annette has been the convenor of the AHRC funded research project ‘Discourses of German Wartime Suffering 1945-present’ at Leeds. Annette is interested in the tensions between Holocaust memory, German renationalisation and imagined 'victimhood', current exclusionary rhetoric/acts and the positionalities of minoritized women and men in Germany today. Annette has published several scholarly articles and bookchapters, for example on Migration, Pedagogy, and German Remembrance Culture, on the writings of Jewish-German authors Esther Dischereit and Maxim Biller, and W. G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur’ amongst others. She is currenly revising her book manuscript entitled 'Beyond Competing Narratives: Holocaust Memory, Migration and Alterity in Reunited Germany.'


Additional email address: annesarpaci@hotmail.com