Kitty Millet

Editor, Comparative Jewish Literatures
Chairperson, ICLA Research Committee on Religion, Ethics and Literature

Education

• 1996, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
• 1989, M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
• 1986, B.A., Comparative Literature, UCI

Academic Interests

• Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• Kabbalah
• testimonio in Latin American Jewish Narratives
• Jewish Messianism
• Secular Jewish Studies
• Modern Jewish Thought
• Comparative Jewish Literatures

Courses

• JS / Hist 317 - Holocaust & Genocide
• JS / Hist 318 - Holocaust & Law
• JS 410 / Phil 514 - Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism
• JS 425 / Phil 552 - Judaism, Religion and Text
• JS 437 / CWL 437 / Engl 533 - Holocaust and Literature
• JS / CWL/ Engl 451 - Jewish Literatures of the Americas
• JS / CWL 480 - European Jewish Literatures
• JS / WGS / Engl 546 Twentieth Century American Jewish Women Writers

Recent Publications

Books

Edited Volumes

Selected Articles

• “Our Sabbatean Future.” Eds. Miriam Zadoff and Noam Zadoff. Institute of Judaic Studies Review (Brill, 2018).
• "Can the Holocaust Novel be a Magical Realist Novel? H. G. Adler’s The Journey ‘after Auschwitz’," Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 12/13 (2013): 192-209.
• “Jewish Aesthetics and the Birth of Humanism.” The European Legacy. 17:1 February, 2012.
• “The Victim as Mishnah.” From Ritual to Romance. Comparative Literature and Comparative Religious Studies. Eds. Hajo Bäcke and Manfred Schmelling. Würzberg: Königshausen u. Neumann, 2011.
• “A Thousand Queer Plateaus: Deleuzeʼs ‘Imperceptibility’ as a Liberated Mapping of Desire.” Rhizomes 11/12.fall 2005/spring 2006 (2005) : n. pag. http://www.rhizomes.net/issue11/millet.html
• “Tikkun Olam: the Jewish Detective and Redemption.” Transversalités. Volume 55, Issue #2. 2005. Ed. By Delphine Cingal. Paris: Institute Catholique, 2005.

Selected Book Chapters, Anthologies

• “An Ethics for Missing Persons." Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature. Eds. Figueira and Millet. Bloomsbury, 2018.
• “Contemplating Jean Améry’s Loss of Transcendence.” On Jean Améry: Philosophy of the Catastrophe. Ed. by Magdalena Zolkos. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2012.
• “Caesura, Continuity, and Myth: The Stakes of Tethering the Holocaust to German Colonial Theory.” Colonial (Dis)-Continuities: Race, Holocaust, and Postwar Germany. Eds. Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama. New York: Columbia UP, 2011.
• “Elie Wiesel’s Night and Dying in the Present Tense." Bloom’s Literary Themes, On Death and Dying. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.