Professor Rochelle Wright presents talk on an Iconic image of the Holocaust in Scandinavian film.
Savery Hall 138, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Rochelle Wright, Professor Emerita of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, returns to campus on May 7 as the Department’s Third Distinguished Alumni Lecturer. The title of her talk is: “A Photo’s Cinematic Afterlife: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy, Bergman’s Persona, and Rösler’s Mendel.”

Dr. Wright earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington Scandinavian Department in 1975 and subsequently taught Scandinavian literature and film at the University of Illinois for more than three decades. Her publications include Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs (1983); The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film (1998); the chapter “Literature Since 1950” in A History of Swedish Literature (1996); and numerous articles on both literary and cinematic topics, with a particular focus on the novels of Kerstin Ekman. She has also translated four Swedish novels into English.
“A Photo’s Cinematic Afterlife: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy, Bergman’s Persona, and Rösler’s Mendel”examines how two Scandinavian auteurs foreground an iconic image of the Holocaust in widely divergent contexts and to different ends.
Professor Wright’s visit is sponsored by the Barbro Osher Endowed Professorship of Swedish Studies and the Sverre Arestad Endowed Chair in Norwegian Studies.

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