Charity Scribner
Charity Scribner’s scholarship examines the cultural response to the rise and fall of left-wing militancy in Germany. She has held teaching and research positions at Columbia University, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut-NRW, the Humboldt University, the University of Oxford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was granted the Class of 1954 Career Development Professorship. On the faculty of the English Department at LaGuardia Community College, in 2010 Scribner received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts to fund a public art collaboration with CUNY students and the visual artists Hong-An Truong and Thomas Hirschhorn. This year she is also teaching critical theory in the Department of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Scribner’s first book, Requiem for Communism (MIT 2003), analyzes European literature and art in the wake of communism’s collapse. She has also published articles in the New Left Review, Critical Inquiry, and Grey Room. Visit her website http://www.charityscribner.net/.
Collected Work
After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy
Why were women so prominent in the Red Army Fraction? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? Engaging critical theory, Charity Scribner addresses these questions and analyzes signal works that point beyond militancy and terrorism. This literature and art discloses the failures of the Far Left and registers the radical potential that RAF women actually forfeited.