Kerry Wallach 2023
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Kerry Wallach is Associate Professor and Chair of German Studies and an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program at Gettysburg College. 


She is the author of Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit (2024), Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany (2017), and numerous articles on German-Jewish literature, history, and film; visual and consumer culture; and gender and sexuality. With Aya Elyada, she co-edited the volume German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations (2023). She is pleased to serve on the editorial board of the German Jewish Cultures book series.


Research and Teaching Interests

20th-century German literature, culture, film, and media; Weimar Republic; German-Jewish history; Yiddish literature in translation; Jewish American literature; women, gender, and sexuality studies; visual, material, and consumer culture; antisemitism and the Holocaust.


Education

Ph.D. 2011

University of Pennsylvania, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (2007)

M.A. 2005

University of Pennsylvania, Germanic Languages and Literatures

B.A. 2002

Wesleyan University, College of Letters   (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa)

College of Letters: European Literature, History, Philosophy, and Foreign Languages

Academic Positions

2017 - present

Gettysburg College, Associate Professor of German Studies (with tenure)


Gettysburg College, Affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program (2016 - present)

2011 - 2017

Gettysburg College, Assistant Professor of German Studies

Summer 2011

German Historical Institute, Washington DC, Short-term Postdoctoral Fellow

Spring 2011

JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary), Jewish Gender & Women's Studies, Visiting Instructor

Awards, Fellowships, & Grants

  • Berg-Myers Jewish Studies Teaching Award, Gettysburg College (2022)
  • Research and Professional Development Grants, Gettysburg College (2012, 2016, 2021, 2022)
  • AJS Women's Caucus Cashmere Subvention Award in Jewish Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (2021)
  • Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (2020)
  • Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award (2019)
  • Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship, Leo Baeck Institute, New York (2013–14)
  • Women in German Dissertation Prize (2012)
  • Leo Baeck Fellowship in German-Jewish History and Culture, Leo Baeck Institute, London and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2008–09)
  • Short-Term Research Fellowship, DAAD/Leo Baeck Institute, New York (2008)
  • YIVO Scholarship for Uriel Weinreich Summer Program, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (2007)
  • Arthur M. Daemmrich and Alfred Guenther Memorial Prize for Excellence in German Studies (2007)
  • Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
  • Bennett Needler Award for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Wesleyan University (2001)

Service Positions

  • German Jewish Cultures Book Series (Indiana University Press; supported by the Leo Baeck Institute, London), Editorial Board Member
  • Leo Baeck Institute, New York, Academic Advisory Board Member (2016–23)
  • Feminist German Studies, Editorial Board Member (2020–22)
  • Association for Jewish Studies, Division Co-Chair for Modern Jewish Literature and Culture (2019–21)
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