Associate Professor
World Languages & Cultures

Kerstin Steitz

757-683-5475

4001 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia, (2014)

M.A. in Germanic Languages & Literature, University of Virginia, (2008)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Steitz, K. "National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend 2019" $6,000. Federal. May 2019 - July 2019
Steitz, K. "Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship" $20,000. May 2015 - May 2016

Research Interests

Postwar German and German Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Law and Literature, Gender Studies

Articles

Steitz, K. (2025). Legal and Epic Alienation. Fritz Bauer’s Critique of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965) and Peter Weiss’s Dramatic Treatment of the Trial in the Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Cantos (1965). Law & Literature 37 (1) , pp. 187-210.
Steitz, K. (2019). "Holocaust Memory on Trial: Nazi Propaganda Film Techniques in Roland Suso Richter's 'Nichts als die Wahrheit'". Holocaust Studies A Journal of Culture and History (Special Issue: Contemporary Holocaust Film).
Steitz, K. (2017). "No 'Innocent Victim'?: Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust as Trope in Zeugin aus der Hölle". , pp. 101-127.
Steitz, K. (2017). "'Eine Grenze hat Tyrannenmacht': Wie Fritz Bauer die Attentäter des 20. Juli mittels Schillers Wilhelm Tell rehabilitierte". Einsicht Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts , pp. 46-54.
Steitz, K. (2017). "Juristische und Epische Verfremdung: Fritz Bauers Kritik am Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963-1965) und Peter Weiss’ dramatische Prozessbearbeitung Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1965)". German Studies Review 40 (1) , pp. 79-101.

Book Chapters

Steitz, K. (2024). 13 Queering the Holocaust: Intersecting Jewish and Transgender Identities in Transparent Blessings beyond the Binary (pp. 214-228) Rutgers University Press.
STEITZ, K. (2024). Queering the Holocaust: Blessings Beyond the Binary (pp. 214-228) Rutgers University Press.
Steitz, K. (2016). "And Hannah Laughed: The Role of Irony in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem" A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World, edited by Gabriel N. Finder and Eli Lederhendler. Oxford University Press, 132-140..
Elzey, D. and Steitz, K. (2013). Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective (pp. 185-200) Palgrave Macmillan UK.
  • 2018: DAAD/GSA Best Article Prize 2018, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Studies Association

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