Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Rob Franciosi

Brooks College Faculty Member

Rob Franciosi

Professor

francior@gvsu.edu

Affiliations

Primary College:
English

Brooks College Partnership:
Honors College

 

RESEARCH FOCUS

American Literature and Culture, Holocaust studies, Warsaw Ghetto and the American Imagination.

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS

Nominated by GVSU as CASE Professor of the Year

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Designing John Hersey's The Wall: W.A. Dwiggins, George Salter, and the Challenges of American Holocaust Memory," Book History 11(2008): 245-274

"Where Words Fail," Grand Valley Review (Winter 2008), 22-28

"Shadowed Grounds: Walking Auschwitz-Birkenau," Grand Valley Magazine (Fall 2006), 20-24

"Bringing The Wall to Broadway," Journal of American Drama and Theatre 16 (Spring 2004), 88-97.

"Art Spiegelman" in Holocaust Literature, ed. S. Lillian Kremer (New York: Routledge, 2003), 1199-1207.

"John Hersey" in Holocaust Literature, ed. S. Lillian Kremer (New York: routledge, 2003). 524-27.

Elie Wiesel: Conversations, (Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002)

INTEREST AREAS

Holocaust Studies, American Memory

 

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