Vivian Liska
Vivian Liska, born in New York City, United States is a professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2013 she is also distinguished visiting professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Biography. Liska received her BA from the University of Maryland (European Division) in 1984, her Licentiate from the University of Antwerp in 1987 and her PhD from the University of Antwerp in 1996. In 1991 she started her academic career as assistant professor at the University of Antwerp. Since 1996 she is professor of German literature and  since 2001 director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2013 she is distinguished visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main academic work focuses on modern German literature, literary theory, German-Jewish thought, feminist theory, and modernism. Liska's critical work has dealt with, among others, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot and Theodor Adorno.