Simone Gigliotti

Senior Lecturer

BA (Hons); PhD (Melbourne)

Contact details

Lectures in

HIST 236: Race and Racism in Modern European History
HIST 332: The Holocaust and Genocide
HIST425: A Topic in European History 3: Witnessing Europe

Research Areas

• Modern European history (esp. World War II and post-war Europe)
• The Holocaust and Comparative Genocide
• Visual History (Film and Photography)
• Witnessing, Testimony and Representation
  

Research Projects

Individual:

• War, Captivity and Transit (Train Journeys, Death Marches, Displaced Persons, Internment camps)
• Displaced Persons and Refugees in Film
• Photography, Spectatorship and Ethics
• The Southern Italian: a biographical inquiry

Collaborative:

• Displaced Children and Youth in New Zealand (VUW Project)
• Holocaust Geographies Group, with reference to evacuations and Death Marches at the end of World War II (International Collaborative Project; NSF)

Books:

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (Oxford; New York: Berghahn Books, 2009 http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=GigliottiTrain
• The Holocaust: a Reader (co-editor)(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005)

Recent Publications:

• “Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference” in Michael Paris (ed), Repicturing the Second World War: Representations in Film and Television (London: Palgrave, 2008): 119-133; 222-223. (see: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275772)
• “Night and the teaching of History: the trauma of transit” in Alan Rosen (ed), Approaches to Teaching Wiesel’s Night, (New York: Modern Language Association, 2007), 32-40. See reviews of the anthology: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/v009/9.1.fienberg.html This essay is to be reprinted in Louise Hawker (ed), Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night (Social Issues in Literature Series), Cengage Learning, 2009.
• “Genocide yet again: Scenes of Rwanda and Ethical Witness in the Human Rights Memoir”, Australian Journal of Politics and History (Vol. 53, No. 1, 2007): 84-95.
•  “History’s Dark Sides: Writing Genocide and Post-Holocaust Obligations”, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 41(4), 2006: 767–778.
• “Cattle Car Complexes”: A Correspondence with Historical Captivity and Post-Holocaust Witnesses”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, (Vol. 20, No.2, Fall 2006): 256–277.
• “Acapulco in the Atlantic: Revisiting Sosúa, a Jewish Refugee Colony in the Caribbean”, Immigrants & Minorities, (Vol. 24, No. 1, March 2006): 22–50.

Book Reviews:

• Robert Eaglestone, “The Holocaust and the Postmodern”, European History Quarterly (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2008): 134-136.
• Alexandra Garbarini, “Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust”, American Historical Review, Vol. 112. No. 5, (December 2007): 1498.
• Zoë Waxman, “Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, (Vol. 53, No. 3, 2007): 487-488.
• Margarete Limberg and Hubert Rübsaat (eds), “Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938” for H-German (February 2007): http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=109331194196318
• Idith Zertal, “Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood”, Australian Journal of Politics and History (Vol. 52, Number 3, 2006): 510-511.

Upcoming Publications:

• Journal Article: Contributing author, “Geographies of the Holocaust: Research Note,” Geographical Review (Forthcoming 2009)
• Book Chapters: “Deportation transit and captive bodies: Rethinking Holocaust witnessing” in Jonathan Petropoulos (et al), Lessons and Legacies IX (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009); forthcoming September 2009, and “There’s no place like home”: The Illustrated Auschwitz in Adam Jones (ed), Evoking Genocide: Scholars and Activists Describe the Works That Shaped Their Lives (Toronto: Keystone Publishing, 2009)
• Book Reviews: A. Dirk Moses (ed), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008); Christopher R. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004); and Phillip T. Rutherford, Prelude to the Final Solution: The Nazi Program for Deporting Ethnic Poles, 1939-1941 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007); for The Historian (forthcoming 2009)

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