World Journalism Institute Newsmakers Forum
in conjunction with The King's College Statemanship Forum

12:00 Noon
March 12, 2008
The King's College

Alvin Rosensfeld is the director of the Institute of Jewish Culture and the Arts at Indiana Univeristy. He is also professor of English and Jewish Studies at IU. Dr. Rosenfeld received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1967. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kiel in Germany and a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University in Israel. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Hamburg University in the summers of 1985 and 1987. The editor of William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon and The Collected Poems of John Wheelwright, he is also the author of numerous scholarly and critical articles on American poetry, Jewish writers, and the literature of the Holocaust. His books, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature and Imagining Hitler, were published by Indiana University Press in 1980 and 1985. He is editor of a series of books on Jewish literature and culture published by Indiana University Press. Other publications include "Jean Améry as Witness" in Holocaust Remembrance: Shapes of Memory (1994) and "Primo Levi: The Survivor as Victim" in Perspectives on the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Raul Hilberg (1995). He is also editor of Thinking about the Holocaust: After Fifty Years (forthcoming). He presently serves the Wexner Heritage Foundation as an educational consultant and lecturer; is a member of the International Board of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Anti-Defamation League’s Braun Center for Holocaust Studies. A contributing editor of the American Poetry Review, he is also a member of the editorial board of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Dr. Rosenfeld has been a featured speaker at CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) conferences and is the author of the December 2006 article "'Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism" commissioned by the American Jewish Committee.