Caroline Wiedmer

Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Academic Department: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; Modern Languages

Degrees:
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Profile:
Caroline Wiedmer was formerly affiliated with Princeton University, the University of Washington, the ETH in Zürich and the University of Zurich. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France (Cornell University Press), Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History (Schwabe Verllag Basel) and Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal in Politics, Art and the Everyday (Palgrave Macmillan). She has received research fellowships from the University of London, the Center for Gender Studies of the University of Basel, Princeton University, Stanford University, the Collegium Helveticum at the ETH in Zürich and the Center for Advanced German and European Studies of the Freie Universität of Berlin. She is the cofounder and board member of the Swiss Cultural Studies Association. Her research interests include memory studies, gender, film, spatiality, and the workings of narrative and discourse in multiple domains of cultural and intellectual life. She is currently at work on a book on Street magazines and the changing representations of poverty, and with Sara Steinert Borella, on a book that analyses the intersections of law and culture in Switzerland.

Publications:
Books
Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal in Politics, Art and the Every-day. Ed. with Sarah Hardy, London: Palgrave Macmillan, January 2006.

Inventing the Past: Essays on Memory, Trauma and Culture. Ed. with Otto Heim, International Cooper Series in English Language and Literature, forthcoming Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2005.

Sound Changes: An International Survey of Women’s Strategies in Higher Education, universelle 4, ed., Zürich: Ropress Genossenschaft, 2001

The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Works in Progress
Spare Change: The Construction of the Homeless in Street Magazines. (working title, single-author book).

A Matter of Equity: Narratives of Sameness and Difference in Higher Education. (working title, single authored book).

Awards and Honors:
Grant from the Cooper International Series in English Literature and Culture, to support publication of co-edited book on Memory and Trauma (August 2005), with Schwabe Verlag in Basel.

Areas of Research:
Gender, law and culture, space, narratology.

Contact Information: cwiedmer@fc.edu