Kremer, S. Lillian 1939-

PERSONAL:

Born June 30, 1939, in New York, NY; daughter of Joseph (in business) and Rachel Kimmel; married Eugene Kremer, June 26, 1960; children: Michael, Ian. Education: State University of New York at Albany, B.A., 1959; City University of New York, M.A., 1964; Kansas State University, Ph.D., 1979.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—Arlington, VA. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

High school English teacher in Guilderland, NY, 1959-60, Cheltenham Township, PA, 1960-61, and Manhattan, KS, 1979-85; Kansas State University, Manhattan, instructor, 1987-91, professor of English, 1991-2002, university distinguished professor, 2002. Lecturer at colleges and universities, including Washburn University, 1990, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999, Northwestern University, 2000, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, University of Sienna, Bar Ilan University, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, all 2004, and University of North Carolina, 2005; presenter of public lectures on Jewish American and Holocaust writing and on twentieth-century Jewish American literature. Edward Lewis Wallant Prize in Literature, member of award jury, 1992-2006. Member of editorial board, Modern Jewish Studies and Yiddish.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants or fellowships from Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1986-87, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2002, Klutznick Foundation, 1995, 1996, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995, and Holocaust Educational Foundation, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, 1999; Fulbright fellow in Belgium, 2004. Outstanding Academic Title for Humanities Reference award, CHOICE, and Dartmouth Medal, American Library Association, both 2004, both for Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Works.

WRITINGS:

Witness through the Imagination: Jewish-American Holocaust Literature, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1989.

Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1999.

(Editor) Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Works, two volumes, Routledge (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Saul Bellow and the Struggle at the Center, edited by Eugene Hollahan, AMS Press (New York, NY), 1996; Representations of Jews through the Ages, edited by Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan LeBeau, Creighton University Press (Omaha, NE), 1996; Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now, edited by Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan Le- Beau, Creighton University Press, 1997; Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers, edited by Ben Siegel and Jay Halio, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE), 1997; Small Planets: Saul Bellow and the Art of Short Fiction, edited by Gerhard Bach and Gloria Cronin, Michigan State University Press (East Lansing, MI), 2000; The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud, edited by Evelyn Avery, State University of New York Press, (Albany, NY), 2001; Experience and Expression, edited by Myrna Goldenberg and Elizabeth Baer, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 2003; and Jewish American and Holocaust Literature in Postmodernity: Beyond the Limits of Representation, edited by Lois E. Rubin, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE), 2004. Author of introduction, Rhodea Schandler, A Long Labour, Ronsdale Press (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 2007. Contributor of more than sixty articles and reviews to periodicals, including Saul Bellow Journal, Modern Language Studies, Proteus, Contemporary Literature, Holocaust Studies Annual, Profils Américains, and Studies in American Jewish Literature. Editor, Bernard Malamud Society Newsletter, 1995-2002; guest editor, Modern Jewish Studies Annual.