Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture.
Professor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently published memoir, “The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood”, and the ghosts they raised up for some readers and for herself.

Ursula Mahlendorf was a member of the faculty of the departments of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies and of Women’s Studies from 1957 to 1992. She studied, taught and wrote on 19th and 20th Century literature from a feminist, psychoanalytic perspective. Reader responses to her recently published memoir, The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood, will form the basis of her lecture/reading. Professor Mahlendorf is presently Dickson Emeriti Professor at UCSB.

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