Sven-Erik Rose

Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Davis

Sven-Erik Rose is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His scholarship focuses on Holocaust literature, German-Jewish thought, and the cultural and philosophical responses to trauma and memory. His first book, Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848, was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Philosophy and Jewish Thought. He has written widely on critical theory and Holocaust representation. His latest book, Making and Unmaking Holocaust Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos, brings literary analysis into dialogue with urgent ethical and historical questions about violence, resistance, and remembrance.