Vivian Liska

Vivian Liska is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2013 she has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her research focuses on modern German literature, literary theory and German-Jewish thinkers and authors. Among other things, she is editor of the book series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, the journal Arcadia and the Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien. She has been awarded the Cross of Honor of the Republic of Austria for Science and Art.
Publications include: German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy (2017); Fremde Gemeinschaft. Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der Moderne (2011); When Kafka says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature (2009); Giorgio Agamben's Empty Messianism (2008).