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<big>'''
[[Vivian Liska]]
'</big>'' born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] is a professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the [[University of Antwerp]], [[Belgium]]
.Her main academic work focuses on Modern German Literature, Literary Theory<ref>New York University <http://as.nyu.edu/object/VivianLiska.html></ref>, Feminist Theory and Modernism.Liska's critical work has dealt with, between others,
[[Walter Benjamin]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Hanna Arendt]], [[Giorgio Agamben]],[[Gershom Scholem]]
and [[Theodore Herzl]].
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'''
== Academic Career ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title !! Affiliation !! Years
|-
| Professor|| University of Antwerp
Senior Professor (Gewoon Hoogleraar)) || 2008
|-
| Assistant|| University of Antwerp|| 1991-1996
|-
| Lecturer || Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)|| Since 2001
|-
| PhD|| University of Antwerp|| 1996
|-
| Licentiate|| University of Antwerp|| 1987
|-
| BA|| University of Maryland (European Division) || 1984
|-
|}
== Bibliography<ref>Universiteit Antwerpen <http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=vivian.liska></ref> ==
'''
MONOGRAPHS, EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES


'''Vivian Liska''', born in [[New York City]], [[United States]] is a professor of German literature and director of the Institute of
Liska, Vivian. Hameshichut ha'rikah shel Giorgio Agamben. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2010. Dana Code 0058500004110
Jewish Studies at the [[University of Antwerp]], [[Belgium]]. Since 2013 she is also distinguished visiting professor at [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]], [[Jerusalem]].


== Biography ==
Liska, Vivian, Sascha Kirchner, Karl Solibakke, and Bernd Witte, eds. Walter Benjamin und das Wiener Judentum zwischen 1900 und 1938. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2009. ISBN 3-8260-4246-1978.
Liska received her BA from the University of Maryland (European Division) in 1984, her Licentiate from the University of Antwerp in 1987 and her PhD from the University of Antwerp in 1996.


In 1991 she started her academic career as assistant professor at the University of Antwerp. Since 1996 she is professor of German literature and since 2001 director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the [[University of Antwerp]], Belgium.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brandeis.edu/cges/news/upcomingevents/liska.html |title=Center for German and European Studies - Vivian Liska |publisher=brandeis.edu |accessdate=March 21, 2019}}</ref> Since 2013 she is distinguished visiting professor at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]].
Liska, Vivian. When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-253-35308-5


Her main academic work focuses on modern German literature, literary theory, German-Jewish thought, feminist theory, and modernism. Liska's critical work has dealt with, among others, [[Walter Benjamin]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Hannah Arendt]], [[Giorgio Agamben]], [[Maurice Blanchot]] and [[Theodor Adorno]].
Liska, Vivian, and Eva Meyer, eds. What Does the Veil Know?. Zürich: Edition Voldemeer. Wien/New York: Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-3-211-99289-0


== Publications ==
Liska, Vivian. Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus. Wien: Schlebrügge Editor, 2008. ISBN 978-3-85160-112-1
* 1993. "Die Nacht der Hymnen: Paul Celans Gedichte 1938-1944". Bern: Peter Lang.
* 1998 (with Geert Lernout, eds.). "Zwischen allen Stühlen: Festschrift Jean-Paul Bier". Leuven: Acco.
* 1998. "Die Dichterin und das schelmische Erhabene. Else Lasker-Schülers 'Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads'". Tübingen: Francke.
* 2000. "Die Moderne - ein Weib. Am Beispiel von Romanen Ricarda Huchs und Annette Kolbs". Tübingen: Francke.
* 2005. "Irgendwo/Ergens". Wetteren: Cultura.
* 2006. ''Det utidssvarende i den tyske ekspressionisme''. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitet.
* 2007 (with Ortrud Gutjahr and Béatrice Dumiche, eds.). ''Geschlechterdifferenzen als Kulturkonflikte''. Bern: Peter Lang.
* 2007 (with Thomas Nolden, eds.). ''Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
* 2007 (with Astradur Eysteinsson, eds.). ''Modernism. 2 volumes.'' Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins''.''
* 2007 (with Mark Gelber, eds.).'' Theodor Herzl between Europe and Zion''. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
* 2007 (with Arthur Cools, Sabine Hillen, and Erik Oger, eds.). ''De macht van de sirene: kennis en verleiding in de moderniteit''. Ghent: Academia Press.
* 2008. ''Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus''. Wien: Schlebrügge.
* 2009 (with Sascha Kirchner, Karl Solibakke, and Bernd Witte, eds.). ''Walter Benjamin und das Wiener Judentum zwischen 1900 und 1938''. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.
* 2009. ''When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
* 2009 (with Eva Meyer, eds.). ''What Does the Veil Know?''. Wien/New York: Springer.
* 2010. ''Hameshichut ha'rikah shel Giorgio Agamben''. Tel Aviv: Resling.
* 2011. ''Fremde Gemeinschaft. Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der Moderne''. Göttingen: Wallstein.
*2011. (with Sonja Klein, Karl Solibakke, Bernd Witte) ''Gedächtnisstrategien und Medien im interkulturellen Dialog''. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
*2012. ''Jumping out of History. Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka'' (in Hebrew). Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press.
*2013. (with Sylvia Jaworski, eds.) ''Am Rand: Grenzen und Peripherien in der europäisch-jüdischen Literatur''. Text + Kritik, München.
*2014. ''Gershom Scholem, Lament and Lamentation''. Special issue of Jewish Studies Quarterly 21:1, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
*2014. ''"Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man...": Kafka, Narrative, and the Law''. Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers No. 16, New Jersey: Rutgers University.
*2014-. Editor of Book Series ''Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts''. Berlin: De Gruyter.
*2015. (with Steven Aschheim, eds.) ''The German-Jewish Experience Revisited''. Berlin: De Gruyter.
*2016. (with Arthur Cools, eds.) ''Kafka and the Universal''. Berlin: De Gruyter.
*2017. ''German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
*2017. (with Michael Baris, eds.) ''Judaism, Law and Literature''. London: Jewish Law Association.


== References ==
Liska, Vivian, Ortrud Gutjahr, and Béatrice Dumiche, eds., Geschlechterdifferenzen als Kulturkonflikte. “Germanistik im Konflikt der Kulturen”, Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005, Band 10, Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Vol. 86.. Ed. J.-M. Valentin. Bern et al.: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-03910-801-5
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==External links==
Liska, Vivian, and Thomas Nolden, eds. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-253-34875-7
*[https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/vivian-liska/ Vivian Liska at University of Antwerp]
*[https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/ijs/ The Institute of Jewish Studies], directed by Vivian Liska
*Book series "[https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/246320 Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts]" (De Gruyter), edited by Vivian Liska


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Liska, Vivian, and Astradur Eysteinsson, eds. Modernism. A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXI. 2 vols. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007. ISBN 978-90-272-3454-2 (Winner of the 2008 MSA Book Prize)
Liska, Vivian, and Mark Gelber, eds. Theodor Herzl between Europe and Zion. Conditio Judaica 67. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2007. ISBN 978-3-484-65167-8
Liska, Vivian, Arthur Cools, Sabine Hillen, and Erik Oger, eds. De macht van de sirene: kennis en verleiding in de moderniteit. Gent: Academia Press, 2007. ISBN 13 978 90 382 1139 8

Liska, Vivian. Det utidssvarende i den tyske ekspressionisme. Publication Series of the Center for Modernismeforskning. Arbejdspapir 2. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitet, 2006. ISBN 87-90830-22-9

Liska, Vivian. Irgendwo/Ergens. Wetteren: Cultura nv, 2005. ISBN 90-728-2830-5

Liska, Vivian, and Ortwin De Graef, eds. Special Issue on Trauma Studies. EJES European Journal of English Studies 7:3. London: Routledge, 2003. ISSN 1382-5577

Liska, Vivian. Die Moderne - ein Weib. Am Beispiel von Romanen Ricarda Huchs und Annette Kolbs. Tübingen: Francke, 2000. ISBN 3-7720-2751-2

Liska, Vivian. Die Dichterin und das schelmische Erhabene. Else Lasker-Schülers "Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads". Tübingen: Francke, 1998. ISBN 3-7720-2181-6

Liska, Vivian, and Geert Lernout, eds. (Festschrift Jean Paul Bier) . Zwischen allen Stühlen: opstellen en voordrachten. Leuven: Acco, 1998. ISBN 90-334-4029-6

Liska, Vivian. Die Nacht der Hymnen: Paul Celans Gedichte 1938-1944. Bern: Peter Lang, 1993. ISBN 3-9067-5029-9<ref>Universiteit Antwerpen <http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=vivian.liska>

== Links ==
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Latest revision as of 17:12, 18 February 2023

Vivian Liska
Born
New York City, United States
Scientific career
FieldsGerman Literature, Literary theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Antwerp

Vivian Liska, born in New York City, United States is a professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2013 she is also distinguished visiting professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Biography

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Liska received her BA from the University of Maryland (European Division) in 1984, her Licentiate from the University of Antwerp in 1987 and her PhD from the University of Antwerp in 1996.

In 1991 she started her academic career as assistant professor at the University of Antwerp. Since 1996 she is professor of German literature and since 2001 director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.[1] Since 2013 she is distinguished visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Her main academic work focuses on modern German literature, literary theory, German-Jewish thought, feminist theory, and modernism. Liska's critical work has dealt with, among others, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot and Theodor Adorno.

Publications

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  • 1993. "Die Nacht der Hymnen: Paul Celans Gedichte 1938-1944". Bern: Peter Lang.
  • 1998 (with Geert Lernout, eds.). "Zwischen allen Stühlen: Festschrift Jean-Paul Bier". Leuven: Acco.
  • 1998. "Die Dichterin und das schelmische Erhabene. Else Lasker-Schülers 'Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads'". Tübingen: Francke.
  • 2000. "Die Moderne - ein Weib. Am Beispiel von Romanen Ricarda Huchs und Annette Kolbs". Tübingen: Francke.
  • 2005. "Irgendwo/Ergens". Wetteren: Cultura.
  • 2006. Det utidssvarende i den tyske ekspressionisme. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitet.
  • 2007 (with Ortrud Gutjahr and Béatrice Dumiche, eds.). Geschlechterdifferenzen als Kulturkonflikte. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • 2007 (with Thomas Nolden, eds.). Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2007 (with Astradur Eysteinsson, eds.). Modernism. 2 volumes. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • 2007 (with Mark Gelber, eds.). Theodor Herzl between Europe and Zion. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  • 2007 (with Arthur Cools, Sabine Hillen, and Erik Oger, eds.). De macht van de sirene: kennis en verleiding in de moderniteit. Ghent: Academia Press.
  • 2008. Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus. Wien: Schlebrügge.
  • 2009 (with Sascha Kirchner, Karl Solibakke, and Bernd Witte, eds.). Walter Benjamin und das Wiener Judentum zwischen 1900 und 1938. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.
  • 2009. When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2009 (with Eva Meyer, eds.). What Does the Veil Know?. Wien/New York: Springer.
  • 2010. Hameshichut ha'rikah shel Giorgio Agamben. Tel Aviv: Resling.
  • 2011. Fremde Gemeinschaft. Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der Moderne. Göttingen: Wallstein.
  • 2011. (with Sonja Klein, Karl Solibakke, Bernd Witte) Gedächtnisstrategien und Medien im interkulturellen Dialog. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
  • 2012. Jumping out of History. Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka (in Hebrew). Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press.
  • 2013. (with Sylvia Jaworski, eds.) Am Rand: Grenzen und Peripherien in der europäisch-jüdischen Literatur. Text + Kritik, München.
  • 2014. Gershom Scholem, Lament and Lamentation. Special issue of Jewish Studies Quarterly 21:1, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
  • 2014. "Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man...": Kafka, Narrative, and the Law. Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers No. 16, New Jersey: Rutgers University.
  • 2014-. Editor of Book Series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2015. (with Steven Aschheim, eds.) The German-Jewish Experience Revisited. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2016. (with Arthur Cools, eds.) Kafka and the Universal. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2017. German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2017. (with Michael Baris, eds.) Judaism, Law and Literature. London: Jewish Law Association.

References

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  1. ^ "Center for German and European Studies - Vivian Liska". brandeis.edu. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
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