Writing Professor Tahneer Oksman to Speak on Panel Discussion for the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
(L) Helmar Lerski, “Lea Grundig Drawing Hands”, c. 1944, © Galerie Berinson, Berlin.
(R) Speakers Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, Tahneer Oksman, and Charlotte Schallié.
On February 10, Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Language and Communication and Media Arts Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., will speak on a panel discussion called Jewish Women’s Graphic Novels About the Holocaust as part of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute’s art exhibition, Who Will Draw Our History? Women’s Graphic Narratives of the Holocaust, 1944-1949.
The talk will be moderated by Rachel Perry, PhD, who also serves as the guest curator for the exhibition.
Other participants include:
- Victoria Aarons, PhD, Trinity University, editor, “The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives” (Wayne State University Press, 2025).
- Charlotte Schallié, PhD, University of Victoria, BC, Project lead and co-director, Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, editor of the award-winning collection of graphic novels But I Live. Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Dr. Oksman is the author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Columbia University Press, 2016). She contributed to The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives (Wayne State University Press, 2025). She teaches several classes at MMC, including Women’s Literary Traditions and Graphic Storytelling: Exploring Contemporary Comics. This Spring, she is teaching Arts & Media Reporting and Criticism.
The panel will take place on February 10 at 4 PM EST. For more details, click here (and scroll down). To register, click here.
Published: January 21, 2026
Writing Professor Tahneer Oksman Recommends Books for NPR, Publishers Weekly
Summer is approaching and two news outlets are taking book recommendations from one of our most illustrious professors! Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Language and Communication and Media Arts Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., is quoted in both NPR and Publishers Weekly with book recommendations for two thematic occasions: the summer publishing season and the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding.
