Danielle Christmas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC. She holds a B.A. in English from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in English from University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current manuscript, Auschwitz and the Plantation: Labor, Sex, and Death in American Holocaust and Slavery Fiction, concerns how representations of slavery and the Holocaust contribute to American socioeconomic discourses. She has received a number of national awards to support this research, including a Cummings Foundation Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Deeply interested in comparative frameworks, Danielle co-convened an international conference through Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia in July 2014 entitled, The Future of the Past: Representing the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Trauma in the 21st Century and she is proud to have been included in the USHMMs interdisciplinary symposium of scholars working on genocide and literature. Most recently, her articles have appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) and Aftermath: Genocide, Memory, and History (Monash University, 2015). When shes not working, Danielles taking a Nia class, drinking wine, playing a board game, or attempting to knit. You can find out more about Danielles work at her website, www.daniellechristmas.com.