Overview
In her dissertation, Tamar investigates familial constellations in 20th-century German literature and film to explore cultural connections between crisis and authority. Combining scholarship concerning socialization processes in the family as a unit that reproduces hegemonic power structures, on the one hand, and accounts of crisis that unsettle these power structures and their linear transmission, Tamar's dissertation offers the category of an "immediate ethical bond" to interrogate the junction of family rhetoric and the construction of narratives concerning national histories in critical relation to their perceived authority and ownership.
Tamar research interests include figurations of kinship, literature and film of National Socialism, post-45 Jewish-German literature, gender and feminist studies, as well as trauma and memory studies.
In addition to her research, Tamar has an active leadership role as a graduate tutor at Cornell's Knight Institute. In addition to tutoring, she co-founded and co-facilitated the "Write Together at Home" and took part in planning and presented on the usage of AI in writing classrooms.
Publications
“The Anxiety of Tradition: Unrealized Weddings in Berdichevsky’s Yiddish Stories.” Naharaim -- Journal of German-Jewish Literature & Cultural History / Zeitschrift Für Deutsch-Jüdische Literatur Und Kulturgeschichte, vol. 16, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 101–27. (with James Redfield)
“Graduate Writing Support amid Crisis: Write Together at Home” (with Michelle Crow, Leigh York, Benedetta Carnaghi, and Tracy Hamler Carrick)” In: Alvarez, Sara P, et al., editors. Literacy and Learning in Times of Crisis: Emergent Teaching through Emergencies. Peter Lang, 2022. P. 278-298