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Research interests
	Philippe CODDE (Prof.) Lic. (Ghent, 1995), M.A. (Antwerp, 1996), M. Phil. (Fordham U, New York), Ph.D. (Ghent, 2005) Postdoctoral Fellow (BOF)
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Jewish American literature Trauma theory (see LITRA) French literary and philosophical existentialism Literary theory
Recent publications
Codde, Philippe. “Keeping History at Bay: Absent Presences in Three Recent Jewish American Novels.” Accepted by Modern Fiction Studies. Codde, Philippe. “Postmemory, Afterimages, Transferred Loss: First and Third Generation Holocaust Trauma in American Literature and Film.” The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation. Ed. Sophia Komor and Susanne Rohr. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 61-72. Codde, Philippe. “Transmitted Holocaust Trauma: a Matter of Myth and Fairy Tales?” In European Judaism. Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 , pp. 62-75. Codde, Philippe. “Philomela Revisited: Traumatic Iconicity in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” Studies in American Fiction, 35.2 (2007), 241-54. Codde, Philippe. “Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer).” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work. Ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. New York: Facts on File, 2010, 126-28 Codde, Philippe. The Jewish American Novel. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, July, 2007. Codde, Philippe. "Burned by the History of the Twentieth Century: Trauma and Narrative Containment in Daniel Stern's Holocaust Novels." Partial Answers 5.1, January 2007. Also published in A Book for Daniel Stern . Ed. Pamela Diamond and Stanley Moss. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, 109-137. Codde, Philippe. “An Early Holocaust Novel Rediscovered: The Gray Zone in Daniel Stern’s Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die ." Yiddish ( Modern Jewish Studies ) [accepted]. Codde, Philippe. “'No Enemy, No Betrayer, No Bearded Torturer': The Death of God, the Holocaust, and Existentialism in Wallant’s The Human Season ." English Language Notes, 43:1 (2005), 63-76. Codde, Philippe. “The Holocaust and Postwar Jewish Identity in Daniel Stern’s Who Shall Liv e, Who Shall Die .” Studies in American Fiction, 33:2 (2005), 165-81.