Jennifer Cazenave

Jennifer Cazenave is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literary Studies and French. She completed a B.A. in Languages and Literature at Bard College. Her research primarily focuses on visual and textual representations of the Holocaust, with a particular focus on survivor testimony. Her larger interests include twentieth century French and German literature, autobiography, cinema, and photography. A former Teaching Fellow at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Jennifer is also a fellow of the Twelfth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Studies. A recipient of a 2008 Mellon Writing Grant from the Alice B. Kaplan Center for the Humanities Center, Jennifer will also be a research fellow (2008) at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., where she will conduct archival research for her dissertation.