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Vivian Liska
Born
Vienna, Austria
Scientific career
FieldsFeminist theory, Literary theory
InstitutionsUniversiteit Antwerpen

Vivian Liska 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[1], 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.

Academic Career

Title Affiliation Years
Professor University of Antwerp Since 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

Works

  • Liska, Vivian. Hameshichut ha'rikah shel Giorgio Agamben. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2010. Dana Code 0058500004110
  • 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, Vivian. When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-253-35308-5
  • 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
  • Liska, Vivian. Giorgio Agambens leerer Messianismus. Wien: Schlebrügge Editor, 2008. ISBN 978-3-85160-112-1
  • 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
  • Liska, Vivian, and Thomas Nolden, eds. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-253-34875-7
  • 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[2]

References

Vivian Liska's at Universiteit Antwerpen