Sandra Alfers has article published, presents at conference

Sandra Alfers, a professor of German in the Western Washington University Department of Modern and Classical Languages, published an article on German-language poetry from Theresienstadt in the British journal "Oxford German Studies." Alfers' article, "The Precariousness of Genre: German-Language Poetry from the Holocaust," appears in the journal's current issue (39.3).

In November, Alfers also attended the "Lessons and Legacies" conference sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation and Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., where she presented her research on the panel "Beyond History: Challenges and Opportunities of Interdisciplinary Work on Representations of the Holocaust."

An article on Peter Kien's poetry from Theresienstadt appeared earlier in 2010 in the "Rocky Mountain Review" (64.1).