Professor Phyllis Lassner

About the project

Professor Phyllis Lassner will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton from 2014 - 2017.

Visiting Fellow and Host

Fellow: Professor Phyllis Lassner, Professor of Instruction, The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Northwestern University, USA

Host: Professor Clare Hanson, English, Humanities

Aims of the collaboration

• To enhance collaboration between the Parkes Institute (Southampton) and the Crown Family Center Northwestern)
• To conduct an interdisciplinary research project on the topic of espionage and exile.
• To publish a co-edited essay collection based on a series of seminars and symposia at both institutions

Fellowship activities in 2015

Professor Lassner made her first Fellowship visit to the University of Southampton in March 2015. Activities included:

• Visit to the Parkes Centre for Jewish Relations and tour of the archives
• Writers in Conversation event, 16 March
• Espionage and Exile Symposium, 18 March
• MA workshop on spy fictions
• Lifelong Learning Day on Jewish / non-Jewish relations, 22 March

Fellowship activities in 2016

Fellowship activities in 2017

• Session on "Soviet Russia as Escape Route from the Holocaust" at "Shades of Jewish Soviet Life" International Workshop , Southampton, May 2016
• Masterclass with MA English students, May 2016
• Workshop on Holocaust with undergraduate students, May 2016
• Preparation for future publication
• International symposium "Visual Representations of the Holocaust", Southampton, April 2017

Useful links

The Parkes Institute

The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies

Research areas