Janice W. Fernheimer, PhD

Initiative Director

Janice W. Fernheimer is Zantker Charitable Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, and James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow at the University of Kentucky and co-director of the UK-Jewish Heritage Fund Holocaust Education Initiative. Her very first publication examined popular audiences’ reception of Holocaust films, and she regularly teaches about the Holocaust in UK courses on Jewish graphic narrative and representations of Israel/Palestine in comics.