Publications

Susanne C. Knittel, “Scales of Memory: Family Chronicles and the Agency of the Aesthetic”, in Astrid Erll , Susanne Knittel and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds.), Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization. Doing Memory Studies With Ann Rigney, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2025 (pp. 305-313).
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Susanne C. Knittel and Sofía Forchieri, “There Is No “Elsewhere”: Scales of Complicity and Implication in the Contemporary German Family Novel” in Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies (eds.), Violence Elsewhere [2 volume set], Boydell & Brewer, Camden House, 2024 (pp. 71-92).
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Susanne C. Knittel, ‘Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide-ecocide nexus’, Memory Studies (2023), Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1563-1578. Ecocide and large-scale ecological degradation raise critical questions regarding guilt, justice, and responsibility. The complexity and scale of ecological violence present a singular challenge for memory studies, especially when it comes to understanding…
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