Ernestine Schlant Bradley

Ernestine Schlant Bradley is a native of Germany and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, where she also obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature.

She has taught French at Spelman College, Atlanta; German at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and was for many years Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, NJ. She has held visiting professorships at Yale and Columbia universities and is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including a fellowship at the prestigious Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is currently teaching at the New School University in New York City.

She has authored numerous articles on twentieth century German and Austrian literature and published two books on the Austrian writer and philosopher Hermann Broch; with J. Thomas Rimer she co-edited Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan. Her most recent scholarly book, The Language of Silence, offers an analysis of West German literature and its efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust; it was also published in a German translation as Die Sprache des Schweigens (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2001). In March 2005 she published her memoirs, The Way Home. A German Childhood, An American Life (NY: Pantheon 2005), her first publication under her married name, not her professional name as a scholar. Among her translations into German is that of Kate Millet's Sexual Politics (Munich: Desch Verlag, 1971).