{"id":7216,"date":"2025-04-23T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/?page_id=7216"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:01:16","slug":"sanna-stegmaier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/profiles\/sanna-stegmaier\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanna Stegmaier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--scrolling-text-with-image \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--scrolling-text-with-image\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n\n          \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/08\/Editorial-Card-Vertical_Sanna-Stegmaier-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/08\/Editorial-Card-Vertical_Sanna-Stegmaier-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Headshot of Sanna Stegmaier.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n  \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Research Fellow<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Sanna Stegmaier\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow (Honorable Mention)<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sanna Stegmaier is a second-year joint PhD student in German Studies and Cultural Studies at King\u2019s College, London and Humboldt University, Berlin. She earned her B.A. in Theatre, Film and Media Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from the same university. Her research interests include Holocaust and genocide studies, memory and trauma studies and 20<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0century Austrian, German and U.S. literature and culture. Her publications include \u201cFrom the\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Posttraumatic<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to the\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Posttestimonial<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2013<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Doron\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rabinovici\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Die\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">letzten<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zeugen<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(2013) between Discursive and Emotive Holocaust Memory\u201d (2018) and \u201cThe Shadow of the Falling Man as an End of (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Im<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)mediate Trauma\u201d (2013).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During her time at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Stegmaier researched the ways in which \u201ccontemporary witness projects\u2026[function] as agents of transnational and transgenerational Holocaust memory in the digital age.\u201d She aimed to conceptualize projects such as Dimensions in Testimony, which she calls\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">posttestimony<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, as original, self-reflective forms of engagement that pose new ethical questions for the field of memory studies and Holocaust education. Stegmaier\u2019s research at the Center was used as the basis for the third chapter of her dissertation, tentatively titled\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Posttestimonial<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Holocaust Memory between the Discursive and the Emotive \u2013 A Case study of European and US Witness Projects in the Digital Age.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n            \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--articles-carousel \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--articles-carousel\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          News\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      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