Helen Finch
@helencfinch.bsky.social
Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds; queer and Holocaust studies; she/her
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During the day workshop, Dr Hájková will be joined by both Dr Will Jones, who translated the book from German to English, and Professor Helen Finch. Dr Hájková's book will be used as a springboard for discussion on Queer Studies in the context of Holocaust Studies.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
During the day workshop, Dr Hájková will be joined by both Dr Will Jones, who translated the book from German to English, and Professor Helen Finch. Dr Hájková's book will be used as a springboard for discussion on Queer Studies in the context of Holocaust Studies.
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On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
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This Nov & Dec, @universityofleeds.bsky.social hosts Act! - a 3-part trans-led series on the fight for trans liberation in the UK.
Each session brings lived experience, research insight & policy expertise to the stage.
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Each session brings lived experience, research insight & policy expertise to the stage.
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Act! For Trans Liberation
Act! is a series of three trans-led events focussed on the struggle for trans liberation here in the UK, drawing on the experience and knowledge of activists, academics and politicians :) Join us, and...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This Nov & Dec, @universityofleeds.bsky.social hosts Act! - a 3-part trans-led series on the fight for trans liberation in the UK.
Each session brings lived experience, research insight & policy expertise to the stage.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/cc/act-for-t...
Each session brings lived experience, research insight & policy expertise to the stage.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/cc/act-for-t...
Thrilled to announce WGS Pathbreakers, a subseries of Peter Lang's Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture series, that seeks to showcase the cultural contribution of women, queer, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming writers and artists to German studies. (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thrilled to announce WGS Pathbreakers, a subseries of Peter Lang's Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture series, that seeks to showcase the cultural contribution of women, queer, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming writers and artists to German studies. (1/3)
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So pleased that I will get to discuss my new book with my brilliant colleagues @helencfinch.bsky.social and @williamrossjones.bsky.social in an event organized by @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social
On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
So pleased that I will get to discuss my new book with my brilliant colleagues @helencfinch.bsky.social and @williamrossjones.bsky.social in an event organized by @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social
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Deadline has been extended to 20 October 2025! Please be sure to enter this competition for first book proposals in #GermanStudies in collaboration with @wigsblog.bsky.social. The #winner receives a #cash prize courtesy of #PeterLangOxford
📚 #ECR members of #W+IGS who are preparing their first book for publication are encouraged to submit proposals to the #BookPrize competition. 📚
All topics within #GermanStudies welcome!
Deadline: 15th September 2025
Full details here: womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/w...
All topics within #GermanStudies welcome!
Deadline: 15th September 2025
Full details here: womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/w...
Women+ in German Studies Essay Prize 2025: Call for Submissions
Women+ in German Studies Essay Prize Women+ in German Studies are delighted to announce their prize for postgraduate scholarship. Postgraduate members of W+IGS are encouraged to submit essays on an…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Deadline has been extended to 20 October 2025! Please be sure to enter this competition for first book proposals in #GermanStudies in collaboration with @wigsblog.bsky.social. The #winner receives a #cash prize courtesy of #PeterLangOxford
Excitedly preparing for the CEUROS @unioflimerick.bsky.social conference on Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future. I'll be speaking on Poetic Techniques of Queer Memory: Antje Rávik
Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...
Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...
CEUROS Conference: Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future
Join us as we explore how memories cross national and generational boundaries, shaping and problematizing collective European remembrance.
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September 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Excitedly preparing for the CEUROS @unioflimerick.bsky.social conference on Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s). Europe’s Past, Present and Future. I'll be speaking on Poetic Techniques of Queer Memory: Antje Rávik
Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...
Strubel, Kim de l’Horizon and Sasha Marianna Salzmann www.ul.ie/ceuros/event...
JOB: Montague Burton fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Come and work with us! The Centre for Jewish Studies is seeking a dynamic postdoctoral fellow with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies
Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
JOB: Montague Burton fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. Come and work with us! The Centre for Jewish Studies is seeking a dynamic postdoctoral fellow with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Helen Finch über Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Mirna Funk.
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Helen Finch über Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Mirna Funk.
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Last evening event until September! Thank you to @helencfinch.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social and to all who attended for a smart, illuminating evening on German-Jewish writers after the Holocaust @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
All prepped for Helen’s talk in one hour! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Last evening event until September! Thank you to @helencfinch.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social and to all who attended for a smart, illuminating evening on German-Jewish writers after the Holocaust @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
In conversation with the iconic @ankahajkova.bsky.social about Holocaust testimony, feminist rage and the tricky question of artistic quality in Holocaust literature. Thank you so much to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and such a thoughtful audience!
July 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In conversation with the iconic @ankahajkova.bsky.social about Holocaust testimony, feminist rage and the tricky question of artistic quality in Holocaust literature. Thank you so much to @wienerlibrary.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and such a thoughtful audience!
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All prepped for Helen’s talk in one hour! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
All prepped for Helen’s talk in one hour! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social
Graduation is always a wonderful and iconic day, particularly wie one of your @lcsleeds.bsky.social graduates drives their Trabi up to campus! Huge congratulations to the German graduating class of 2025, and to Dr. Corey Hartley #ProudDoktormutter
July 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Graduation is always a wonderful and iconic day, particularly wie one of your @lcsleeds.bsky.social graduates drives their Trabi up to campus! Huge congratulations to the German graduating class of 2025, and to Dr. Corey Hartley #ProudDoktormutter
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Next Wednesday I will discuss Helen Finch’s new book at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
It promises to be a great event and you all should come!
NB in person
It promises to be a great event and you all should come!
NB in person
📣 New Academic Book Talk next week!
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/5orO5Ug
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/5orO5Ug
July 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Next Wednesday I will discuss Helen Finch’s new book at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
It promises to be a great event and you all should come!
NB in person
It promises to be a great event and you all should come!
NB in person
So proud of my PhD supervisee Eden Hills for this important and very timely article: Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany doi.org/10.33134/rds...
Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany | Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory
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July 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
So proud of my PhD supervisee Eden Hills for this important and very timely article: Trans-Exclusionary, Transnational: Gender-Critical Feminism and the Overstatement of Harm in the UK and Germany doi.org/10.33134/rds...
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16 July, starring @helencfinch.bsky.social (@lcsleeds.bsky.social) and @ankahajkova.bsky.social (Warwick):
📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed!
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B
June 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
16 July, starring @helencfinch.bsky.social (@lcsleeds.bsky.social) and @ankahajkova.bsky.social (Warwick):
It was a delight to review Gillian Selikowitz's 'Sebald's Jews' - the Sebald wars may be back... Selikowitz shows how Sebald de-individualizes the Jewish characters he purports to memorialize, & how his troping of Jews reflects antisemitic tropes in German thought muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - <i>Sebald's Jews: The Jew as Trope in the Narrative Fiction of W. G. Sebald</i> by Gillian Selikowitz (review)
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June 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It was a delight to review Gillian Selikowitz's 'Sebald's Jews' - the Sebald wars may be back... Selikowitz shows how Sebald de-individualizes the Jewish characters he purports to memorialize, & how his troping of Jews reflects antisemitic tropes in German thought muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
I'm excited to discuss my book, 'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust', on 30.07.25 in @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, with @ankahajkova.bsky.social. The Library has a close connection with H.G. Adler, who inspired my project. Do come!
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Book Talk: German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust with Helen Finch in Conversation with Anna Hájková - The Wiener Holocaust Library
How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? How did their literary life writings reflect their postwar struggles? This monograph focuse...
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June 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I'm excited to discuss my book, 'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust', on 30.07.25 in @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, with @ankahajkova.bsky.social. The Library has a close connection with H.G. Adler, who inspired my project. Do come!
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...
As a lesbian & a researcher in queer studies, I'm horrified at the recent Supreme Court ruling stating that trans women are not to be protected as women under the Equality Act 2010. This places trans, intersex and nonbinary people at huge risk, and is an attack on all of us in the LGBTQI community.
May 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
As a lesbian & a researcher in queer studies, I'm horrified at the recent Supreme Court ruling stating that trans women are not to be protected as women under the Equality Act 2010. This places trans, intersex and nonbinary people at huge risk, and is an attack on all of us in the LGBTQI community.
'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust is a highly useful and important book for the emergent fields of German Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, comparative literature & German Studies. The clear language makes it accessible.' Thanks Agnes Mueller! muse.jhu.edu/article/953176
Project MUSE - <i>German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond Testimony</i> by Helen Finch (review)
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March 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
'German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust is a highly useful and important book for the emergent fields of German Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, comparative literature & German Studies. The clear language makes it accessible.' Thanks Agnes Mueller! muse.jhu.edu/article/953176
This year's University Holocaust Memorial Day event, #HMD, on Monday 27 January marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I'll be sharing the story of my family members who were among the first Jews to be deported to Auschwitz in 1942. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
Holocaust Memorial Day event
80 years since the Liberation of Auschwitz. A symbolic date. An encounter with private pictures and personal stories.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This year's University Holocaust Memorial Day event, #HMD, on Monday 27 January marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I'll be sharing the story of my family members who were among the first Jews to be deported to Auschwitz in 1942. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
It was a joy to review Syd Zolf’s No One’s Witness, a deeply felt response to the poetics of trauma. Helen Finch, No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Winter 2024, Pages 425–427, doi.org/10.1093/hgs/...
No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf
In the past few months, it has become particularly difficult to debate the responsibility of witnesses to atrocity and to compare the legacy of the genocid
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January 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It was a joy to review Syd Zolf’s No One’s Witness, a deeply felt response to the poetics of trauma. Helen Finch, No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics. Syd Zolf, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Winter 2024, Pages 425–427, doi.org/10.1093/hgs/...
Submit a proposal in Queer Studies - calling all emerging scholars and especially Germanists! The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group at Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies. www.peterlang.com/2025-emergin...
2025 Emerging Scholars Competition - Peter Lang
Enter the 2025 Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies for the chance to win a publishing contract with Gold Open Access.
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December 18, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Submit a proposal in Queer Studies - calling all emerging scholars and especially Germanists! The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group at Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Queer Studies. www.peterlang.com/2025-emergin...