Amy Colin

Amy Colin is an associate professor in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh and a Research Professor and Board Member of the Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam, Germany.  Colin’s research areas include Theories of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, German-Jewish women’s literature, post-World War II German writing, Coexistence Studies, and Fin-de-siécle Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. Colin has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including research grants from the Canadian government, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.  She was the initiator and co-founder of the International and European Forums on Cultures and Peace as well as the organizer of the section “Resistance to Change: Implementing Political, Social, and Cultural Innovation,” UNESCO Forum on the Social Nexus, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006.

Colin has authored or edited several books and collections of essays, including Im Gegenlicht des Todes: Poetik der Vielvölkerkoexistenz und jüdischen Identität in der Bukowina (In the Counter-Light of Death: Poetics of Multi-Ethnic Coexistence and Jewish Identity in the Bukovina) (Munich: W. Fink Verlag, forthcoming 2006), Bridging the Abyss: Reflections on Jewish Suffering, Anti-Semitism, and Exile (Munich: W. Fink Verlag, 1994), and Paul Celan: Holograms of Darkness (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).  Forthcoming are two collections of essays from UNESCO Publications in cooperation with the City for the Cultures of Peace: International Interdisciplinary Institute, Inc.  Ms. Colin, a founder of the City for the Cultures of Peace, edited and contributed to the editions, entitled Marginalizations: Patterns of Injustice and Discrimination and Formes et dynamiques de l’exclusion.