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After emigrating from her native Germany to the United States, Ute Stargardt entered college as a full-time student in 1970 and after specializing in Medieval English Literature and Language graduated with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee in 1981. She joined the Alma College faculty in 1982 and with "Holocaust Literature" offered the first Holocaust Studies course to be taught at Alma College. Since then she has been active in Holocaust studies in various ways, most importantly in establishing (with Professor John Arnold) the "Wroclaw Project," a service learning course in Poland, whose purpose is to clean and restore a Jewish graveyard in Wroclaw, formerly the German city of Breslau. Her teaching and scholarship interests focus on Holocaust issues and medieval subjects, especially medieval spirituality. Every other year she takes students to England for a month-long study of medieval English literature at sites appropriate to the works the group is reading there. Always interested in issues of translating literature from one language to another, she has made her first professional contribution to that discipline by translating Hans Safrian's "The Eichmann Men," a historical study of the mechanics of the Holocaust for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. In her spare time she writes short stories in German and English.

Medieval Language and Literature
Holocaust Literature and Film

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