Holli Levitsky

Dr. Holli Levitsky is the founder and Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her research and scholarship focus on Holocaust representation and questions of identity, especially as it relates to exile and displacement. In addition to dozens of essays, articles and book chapters, she is editor or co-editor of, Literature of Exile and Displacement: American Identity in a Time of Crisis (2013), Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination ( 2014), Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman’s Experience (2022) and the forthcoming volume, Hyam Plutzik: American Jewish Poet: Memory. Loss and Time ((2024).In 2001-2002, Dr. Levitsky held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Poland. She has participated in symposia, conferences, and study trips to Germany and to Poland to advance German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish understanding. She regularly leads workshops on teaching the Holocaust to secondary and college teachers locally, nationally and internationally.