{"id":58167,"date":"2015-09-18T15:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=58167"},"modified":"2019-10-09T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:30:39","slug":"nancy-harrowitz","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/nancy-harrowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Harrowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Harrowitz is the Chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/\">Dept. of Romance Studies at Boston University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Harrowitz\u2019s research and teaching interests include\u00a0 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, science and\u00a0 literature, and Holocaust Studies. She is a specialist in Primo Levi\u00a0 and is currently writing a book on Levi, science and Jewish identity.\u00a0 She has published <em>A<\/em><em>ntisemitism, Misogyny and the Logic of Cultural\u00a0 Difference: Matilde Serao and Cesare Lombroso<\/em> (1995), has edited\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=4508320\"><em>Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes<\/em><\/a> (1995), and co- edited with Barbara Hyams\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/philosophy_and_literature\/summary\/v020\/20.2br_harrowitz.html\">Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1996). Her work includes articles on Primo Levi, Giorgio\u00a0 Bassani, Carlo Levi, and Margherita Sarfatti among others.<\/p>\n<p>She teaches courses on modern Italian literature and on fascism and\u00a0the Holocaust in Italy, often including film as part of the curriculum. She also teaches courses in the comparative literature\u00a0 program on Holocaust literature and film, and on Primo Levi and Holocaust literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70275,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/58167\/revisions\/70275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}