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Irene Kacandes holds an endowed chair in German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. Author or editor of numerous volumes on a wide range of subjects like orality and literacy and generational traumatic memory, her co-written reflection on mortality, Let’s Talk about Death: Asking the Questions that Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die, appeared in late 2015 with Prometheus Books. She is currently co-editing an anthology on innovative approaches to studying Eastern Europe and writing a monograph on co-witnessing since the Nazi Judeocide. She edits the book series “Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies” at de Gruyter Verlag and is President of the German Studies Association. She is a Public Voices Fellow of the Op-Ed Project.