Susanne Klingenstein

Lecturer in the Humanities, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Susanne Klingenstein is a writer and literary scholar. She teaches philosophy and history of medical culture as a lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at the Harvard Medical School. She is also a regular contributor to *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* and *The Weekly Standard*. She studied German, English, American, and Yiddish literature at the University of Heidelberg, Brandeis University and Harvard University. She earned her PhD in American Studies. Her books focus on the contribution of Jewish intellectuals to the study of literature. She is currently writing an introduction to Yiddish literature.