Vivian Liska


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

Liska received her BA from the University of Maryland 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. 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

  • 1993. "Die Nacht der Hymnen: Paul Celans Gedichte 1938-1944". Bern: Peter Lang.
  • 1998. "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. Geschlechterdifferenzen als Kulturkonflikte. Bern: Peter Lang.
  • 2007. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2007. Modernism. 2 volumes. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • 2007. Theodor Herzl between Europe and Zion. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  • 2007. De macht van de sirene: kennis en verleiding in de moderniteit. Ghent: Academia Press.
  • 2008. Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus. Wien: Schlebrügge.
  • 2009. 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. 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. Gedächtnisstrategien und Medien im interkulturellen Dialog. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
  • 2012. Jumping out of History. Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press.
  • 2013. 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. The German-Jewish Experience Revisited. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2016. Kafka and the Universal. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • 2017. German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • 2017. Judaism, Law and Literature. London: Jewish Law Association.