Ms Jennifer Langer
Overview
- Name:
- Ms Jennifer Langer
- Thesis title:
- Exile from Exile: The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Iranian Jewish Exiled Women Writers
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Biography
Jennifer Langer holds an MA in Cultural Memory from the University of London Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, the School of Advanced Study. She has presented papers on her PhD research at the SOAS International PhD Conference on the Middle East (May 2011) and for the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies (February 2011).
She is founding director of Exiled Writers Ink: www.exiledwriters.co.uk and has edited four anthologies of exiled literature including Crossing the Border: Voices of Refugee and Exiled Women Writers (Five Leaves 2002) and If Salt has Memory: Jewish Exiled Writing (Five Leaves 2008)
Jennifer Langer received a 2011 award from the Hadassah Institute of Brandeis University, America which includes the possibility of publishing her PhD as a book.
PhD Research
Philosophy; Cultural Memory; Cultural Memory and Gender; Literature of Exile; Jewish Identity, Iranian Mizrahi Jewish community and Sephardi and Mizrahi communities generally; Iran and Iranian literature
