Nancy Harrowitz

Nancy Harrowitz

Associate Professor of Italian

BA, University of Oregon
MA, Case Western Reserve University
PhD, Yale University

Courses

The Novel in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy

CAS LI 450 (4 credits)

An examination of the modern novel in Italy: Foscolo, Capuana, D'Annunzio, Bassani, and Calvino. The development of the novel in Italy is discussed along with related questions of narrative perspective, cultural ideologies, and historical context.

2013SPRGCASLI450 A1, Jan 17th to May 2nd 2013
Days Start End Type Bldg Room Instructor
TR 09:30:00 AM 11:00:00 AM GCB 208 Cote

Holocaust Literature and Film (in English translation)

CAS XL 281 (4 credits)

Questions of representation in literature and film about the Holocaust, including testimonial and fictive works by Wiesel and Levi, Ozick, and others; films include documentaries and feature films. Discussions of the Holocaust as historical reality, metaphor, and generative force in literature. Also offered as CAS RN 385.

2013SPRGCASXL281 A1, Jan 17th to May 2nd 2013
Days Start End Type Bldg Room Instructor
TR 12:30:00 PM 02:00:00 PM GCB 203 Harrowitz
2013SPRGCASXL281 B1, Jan 22nd to Apr 30th 2013
Days Start End Type Bldg Room Instructor
T 03:30:00 PM 06:30:00 PM STH 625 Harrowitz

Research and Teaching

Professor Harrowitz’ research and teaching interests include  nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, science and  literature, and Holocaust Studies. She is a specialist in Primo Levi  and is currently writing a book on Levi, science and Jewish identity.  She has published Antisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural  Difference: Matilde Serao and Cesare Lombroso (1995), has edited   Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes (1995), and co- edited with Barbara Hyams Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto  Weininger(1996). Her work includes articles on Primo Levi, Giorgio  Bassani, Carlo Levi, and Margherita Sarfatti among others.

She teaches courses on modern Italian literature and on fascism and the Holocaust in Italy, often including film as part of the  curriculum. She also teaches courses in the comparative literature  program on Holocaust literature and film, and on Primo Levi and  Holocaust literature.