Petra Schweitzer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Schweitzer has held research grants at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France. Her dissertation, "Art under Duress: Visual and Verbal Representations of the Holocaust," examines the ways in which the works of Charlotte Delbo, Imre Kertsz, Moshe Kupferman, and Shimon Attie provide access to the Holocaust experience through artistic representation and the transmission of traumatic memories.
