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Dr. Susanne Knittel

Associate Professor 
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
 
Humanities
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Kamer 2.20
3512 JK Utrecht

Dr. Susanne Knittel

Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature
s.c.knittel@uu.nl
Profile CV Publications Activities Prizes In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Profile CV Publications Activities Prizes In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Areas of expertise
Research areas

Highlighted publications

Knittel, S. C. (2014). The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory. Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823262786.001.0001
Driscoll, K., & Knittel, S. C. (Eds.) (2017). Introduction: Memory after Humanism. Parallax, 23(4), 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374507
Knittel, S. C., & Goldberg, Z. (Eds.) (2019). The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies. (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102887
Knittel, S. C. (2019). Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice. New German Critique, 46(2), 171-195. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546234
Knittel, S. C. (2018). Unheimliche Geschichte: Grafeneck, Triest und die Politik der Holocaust-Erinnerung. (Erinnerungskulturen/Memory Cultures). Transcript Verlag.

Publications

2023

Scholarly publications

Diphoorn, T., Knittel, S., & Mc Gonigle, B. (Accepted/In press). Travelling Concepts. In F. Darbellay (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Edward Elgar Publishing.
Knittel, S. (2023). Die NS-‘Euthanasie’ in der Literatur und im Film. In Verdrängt. Die Erinnerung an die nationalsozialistischen “Euthanasie”-Morde (pp. 188-194). Wallstein.
Knittel, S. (2023). Editorial. Journal of Perpetrator Research, v-vi. https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.6.1.148
Knittel, S. (2023). Ecologies of Violence: Cultural Memory (Studies) and the Genocide–Ecocide Nexus. Memory Studies, 16(6), 1563-1578. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231202747
Knittel, S., & Forchieri, S. (Accepted/In press). There is no ‘Elsewhere’: Scaling Complicity and Implication in Contemporary German Family Novels. In Violence Elsewhere Camden House.
Diphoorn, T., Huysmans, M., Knittel, S., Mc Gonigle, B., & van Goch, M. (2023). Travelling Concepts in the Classroom: Experiences in Interdisciplinary Education. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education , 12(SE 2023), 1-14. https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jise/article/view/4844
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/427252/1._4851_Knittel_et_al_SI.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. (2021). On Strongmen: An Interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 4(1), 15–24. https://doi.org/10.21039/100
Knittel, S. (2021). 'Dall’altra parte': Language, Memory and Identity in Südtirol/Alto Adige. L’Anello che non tiene, 29-32(1-2), 262–286.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426326/L_ANELLO.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2020). Understanding Perpetrators? In Teaching about Genocide : Advice and Suggestions from Professors, High School Teachers, and Staff Developers (Vol. 3, pp. 117–125). Rowman & Littlefield.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/414785/Knittel_Understanding_Perpetrators.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2020). Editorial Issue JPR 3.1. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 3(1), v-ix. https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.68
Knittel, S. C., & Forchieri, S. (2020). Navigating Implication: An Interview with Michael Rothberg. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 3(1), 6-19. https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.66
Knittel, S. C., & Forchieri, S. (2020). Special Section on Michael Rothberg’s The Implicated Subject: Introduction. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 3(1), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.65
Knittel, S. C. (2020). Figures of Comparison in Memory Studies: Singularity, Multidirectionality, Diffraction. In T. Vanassche, & D. Henke (Eds.), Ko-Erinnerung: Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des neueren Shoagedenkens (pp. 21-36). (Media and Cultural Memory). DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110622706-003

2019

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2019). The Ethics of Discomfort: Critical Perpetrator Studies and/as Education after Auschwitz. In S. C. Knittel, & Z. J. Goldberg (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies (1 ed., pp. 379-384). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102887-35
Knittel, S. C., & Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (Eds.) (2019). Double Exposures: Perpetrators and the Uses of Photography. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(2). https://jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/3/volume/2/issue/2/
Knittel, S. C., & Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2019). Double Exposures: An Introduction. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.2.2.55
Knittel, S. C. (2019). Ante los perpetradores: Repetición, Reenactment, Representación. In V. Sáncez-Biosca, & A. Ferrer (Eds.), El infierno de los perpetradores: Imágenes, relatos y conceptos (pp. 273-296). Edicions Bellaterra & Institució Alfons el Magnànim.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/414459/Ante_los_perpetradores_Knittel.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C., & Goldberg, Z. (Eds.) (2019). The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies. (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102887
Knittel, S. C. (2019). Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice. New German Critique, 46(2), 171-195. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546234

2018

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C., & Ungor, U. U. (2018). Response to Christian Gudehus. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(1), 33-36. https://doi.org/10.100.5334/jpr.2.1.23
Knittel, S. C. (2018). Editorial. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(1), v. https://doi.org/10.5334/jpr.2.1.24
Knittel, S. C. (2018). Unheimliche Geschichte: Grafeneck, Triest und die Politik der Holocaust-Erinnerung. (Erinnerungskulturen/Memory Cultures). Transcript Verlag.
Knittel, S. C. (2018). Stand by Your Man: (Self-)Representations of SS-Wives after 1945. In C. Morina, & K. Thijs (Eds.), Probing the Limits of Categorization: The Bystander in Holocaust History (1 ed., pp. 291-308). (War and Genocide; Vol. 27). Berghahn Books.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/414391/Knittel_Stand_by_Your_Man.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Knittel, S. C. (2018). Etched Into our Memory.

2017

Scholarly publications

Critchell, K., Knittel, S. C., Perra, E., & Üngör, U. Ü. (2017). Editors' Introduction. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 1(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.v1i1.51
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361028/Editor.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2017). Grafeneck und das Unheimliche in der Geschichte. In T. Müller, P-O. Schmidt-Michel , & F. Schwarzbauer (Eds.), Wohin bringt ihr uns? Die nationalsozialistische “Euthanasie.” : Beispiele der Erinnerungskultur und Memorialkunst (pp. 33-50). Verlag Psychiatrie und Geschichte .
Driscoll, K., & Knittel, S. C. (Eds.) (2017). Introduction: Memory after Humanism. Parallax, 23(4), 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374507

2016

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2016). Unheimliche Heimat: Triest als Erinnerungsraum. Shoah: intervention, methods, documentation, 3(1), 114-127.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345554/Knittel_Unheimliche_Heimat_SWL.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2016). Review of: Sara Jones. The Media of Testimony. Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic. H-Soz-U-Kult.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345553/Jones_Review.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2016). The Ruins of Europe: Milo Rau’s Europe Trilogy and the (Re)Mediation of the Real. Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap, 29(1), 41-59.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387969/Frame_29_1_Susanne_C_Knittel.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2016). Autobiography, Moral Witnessing, and the Disturbing Memory of Nazi Euthanasia. In M. Fulbrook, S. Bird, J. Wagner, & C. Wienand (Eds.), Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond: Disturbing Pasts (pp. 65-81). Bloomsbury Academics. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reverberations-of-nazi-violence-in-germany-and-beyond-9781474241878/
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387996/Autobiography_Moral_Witnessing.pdf?sequence=1

2015

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2015). Die Textur der Erinnerung: Grafeneck in der Literatur. In P. Steinbach, T. Stöckle, S. Thelen, & R. Weber (Eds.), Entrechtet - verfolgt - vernichtet.: NS-Geschichte und Erinnerungskultur im deutschen Südwesten (pp. 200-212). Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/347797/Beitrag_Knittel.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. (2015). Review of A. Sierp, History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity. H-Soz-U-Kult, Article 2015-1-058.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/321883/Sierp_Review.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2015). “Basta con le rimozioni!” Le foibe nella televisione italiana. In A. Hajek, M. Jansen, & M. B. Urban (Eds.), Televisionismo. Narrazioni televisive della storia italiana durante la Seconda Repubblica (pp. 69-81). (Innesti | Crossroads; No. 7). Edizioni Ca' Foscari.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/364775/Basta_con_le_rimozioni.pdf?sequence=1

2014

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. (2014). The Cultural Memory of Protest: Review of Andrea Hajek, Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe. The Case of Italy. Incontri, 29(1), 125-127.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/306806/9777_20078_1_PB.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2014). Memory Redux: The foibe on Italian Television. The Italianist, 34(2), 170-185. https://doi.org/10.1179/0261434014Z.00000000071
Knittel, S. C. (2014). The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory. Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823262786.001.0001
Knittel, S. C. (2014). Borderline Memory Disorder: The Risiera di San Sabba and the Staging of Italian National Identity. In B. Sion (Ed.), Death Tourism: Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape (pp. 247-266). (Enactments). Seagull. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo15702071.html
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/322590/Knittel_Borderline_Memory_Disorder_copy.pdf?sequence=1
Knittel, S. C. (2014). Case Histories: The Legacy of Nazi Euthanasia in Recent German Heimatkrimis. In T. Herzog, & L. Kutch (Eds.), Tatort Germany: The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction (pp. 120-138). ( Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture). Camden House. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt6wp9jw

2013

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2013). Beyond Testimony: Nazi-Euthanasia and the Field of Memory Studies. The Holocaust in History and Memory, 5, 85-101. http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/journal_thhm/volume_5.html
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387715/Beyond_Testimony_Nazi_Euthanasia_and_the.pdf?sequence=1

Other output

Knittel, S. C. (2013). What we talk about when we talk about perpetrators. Paper presented at Memory with(out) Borders, Utrecht University.

2010

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2010). Bridging the Silence: Towards a Literary Memory of (Nazi) Euthanasia. In M. Schillmeier, & E. Joshua (Eds.), Edinburgh German Yearbook Volume 4 (pp. 83-103). Camden House.

Other output

Knittel, S. C. (2010). Black Holes and Revelations: The ‘Foibe’ and Triestine Literature. Paper presented at ACLA Conference, New Orleans.
Knittel, S. C. (2010). Intruding on the Present, Searching for the Past: Negotiating the Memory of Nazi Euthanasia at a German Care Facility. Paper presented at Death/Dark/Thanatourism, New York.

2009

Scholarly publications

Knittel, S. C. (2009). Das Schweigen brechen: Zu einer literarischen Geschichte der NS-Euthanasie. In T. Lutz (Ed.), 51. Bundesweites Gedenkstättenseminar NS-Krankenmorde – Historischer Rahmen, das Beispiel Grafeneck, Aufarbeitung
Knittel, S. C. (2009). Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck in the Past, Present, and Future. In W. Niven, & C. Paver (Eds.), Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (pp. 124-133). Palgrave Macmillan.

Popularising publications

Knittel, S. C. (2009). NS-Euthanasie im Fernsehfilm Holocaust: Fragen zur Repräsentation und Rezeption. Gedenkstättenrundbrief, 3-10. http://www.gedenkstaettenforum.de/nc/gedenkstaetten-rundbrief/rundbrief/news/ns_euthanasie_im_fernsehfilm_holocaust/

2008

Other output

Knittel, S. C. (2008). Uncanny Homelands: NS Euthanasia between Remembering and Forgetting. Paper presented at Cultural Memory: Forgetting to Remember/Remembering to Forget, Canterbury, UK.
Knittel, S. C. (2008). Learning from the Past, Teaching for the Future. Paper presented at Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Possible?, New York.

2006

Other output

Knittel, S. C. (2006). F.T. Marinetti and German Expressionism: ‘Everything is Poetry!'. Paper presented at 2006 Romance Studies Colloquium, Eugene, Oregon.

 

 

 

 

 

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