University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Catherine Chatterley
Catherine Chatterley

Adjunct Professor of History

Please contact via e-mail: drchatterley@gmail.com

Website: www.catherinechatterley.com/

Director, Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA)

EDUCATION

PhD, University of Chicago
M.A., Concordia University
B.A., University of Manitoba
RESEARCH INTERESTS
George Steiner; Theories of Antisemitism; Antisemitic Imagery; Gender & Antisemitism; History of Holocaust Consciousness; Jewish-Gentile Relations in Western Culture; Philosemitism; Western Cultural Criticism; Central European Jewish Intellectuals; Outsiders in European History 
BOOKS
  Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Culture after Auschwitz (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011)  
A History of the Antisemitic Imagination (SSHRC sponsored research; manuscript underway

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
  “Blood and Belonging: Christian Antisemitic Themes in Anti-Israel Discourse,” Contemporary Antisemitism in Higher Education: Sources, Manifestations and Responses (forthcoming)
“Language, Humanity, and the Holocaust: The Steinerian Triad,” in The Wounds of Possibility: Essays on George Steiner, edited by Ricardo Gil Soeiro (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming)
"We Come After: The Holocaust in Steinerian Thought, 1952-1971," in O Pensamento Tornado Danca. Estudos em Torno do Pensamento de George Steiner, Ricardo Gil Soeiro ed. (Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2009): 96-113. 

BOOK REVIEWS
Alon Confino, “Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History,” The Hedgehog Review (Summer 2007): 75-78.
LECTURES

“Creating a More Humane Future: Uprooting Antisemitism Through Scholarship and Education,” Women’s Endowment Fund Luncheon, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, May 2012

“Islamophobia and Antisemitism,” Arab Jewish Dialogue, Winnipeg, September 27, 2011 

Bilateral presentation on “Why the Holocaust must be part of the Permanent Exhibit,” Content Advisory Committee of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, January 26, 2010

“Western Culture, The Holocaust, and the Persistence of Antisemitism,” Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, March 5, 2009
Aspire Winter Public Lecture Series, Winnipeg
“World War I and the Treaty of Versailles,” January 15, 2007
“Nazism and the Destruction of European Jewry,” February 5, 2007
“Phoenix Rising: The Creation of the State of Israel,” February 28, 2007
“The Western World and the Middle East,” March 21, 2007
“Who is Osama bin Laden and Where is Afghanistan?” April 11, 2007
“George Steiner vs. Cambridge English: A Case of English Antisemitism or Culture Clash?” University of Winnipeg Faculty Seminar Series, Feb. 2006
“Antisemitism: History through Imagery,” Holocaust Education Teachers Seminar, EMSB (English Montreal School Board), Montreal, March 2000
“Old Hate, New Technology: Antisemitism on the Web,” QPAT/APEQ (Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers) Annual Convention, Montreal, November 1999

CONFERENCES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
“Erasing Antisemitism and the Holocaust from The Canadian Museum for Human Rights,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston, December 19-22, 2010
“The Antisemitic Imagination,” International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural Conference, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, August 22-26, 2010
“Jud Süss: Antisemitism on Film,” University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, March 14, 2010
“Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Süss,” Jewish Film Festival, Winnipeg, March 21, 2010
“Der Jud Gehört ins Kaffeehaus: The Viennese Coffeehouse as a Site of Jewish Modernity, 1890-1938,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2-5, 2008 (Paper withdrawn due to scheduling conflict)
“George Steiner’s Blackmail of Transcendence: A Theory of Antisemitism,” Studying Antisemitism in the 21st Century, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, July 14-25, 2008
“Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Culture after Auschwitz,” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Conference, Toronto, December 2007
Participant, Confronting Catastrophe: Jewish Religious Responses to the Holocaust, Jewish Source Study Initiative Seminar, The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington, August 13-19, 2006
Coordinator, An International Colloquium on Iran and Iraq: Toward 2010, Israeli and American Policy, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Montreal, May 1999

MEDIA
Film Review, Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, CBC Radio, Winnipeg, June 2003
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Vice-President, International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)
Academic Advisory Council, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba (CHRR)
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)
German Studies Association (GSA)
American Historical Association (AHA)
COURSES TAUGHT

2011-2012
HIST 2240 Antisemitism and the Holocaust

2011
HIST 2240 Antisemitism and the Holocaust

2010
HIST 2240 Antisemitism and the Holocaust

2009-10
HIST 2240 Antisemitism and the Holocaust

2008-09
HIST 2240 Antisemitism and the Holocaust