Cailee Davis

Cailee Davis is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, examining the shifting modalities of transnational Holocaust representation across mixed media, including film, television, art, photography, and literature, as the Holocaust becomes removed from living memory and we approach a post-witness world. She is especially interested in the phenomenon of metareferentially, the act of self-reflexively drawing attention to the artifice of the work and/or the medium, within these works. Recently, she completed her MA in Holocaust Studies with Distinction at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her dissertation, “Inglourious Basterds: Rewriting American History,” explored the Americanization of the Holocaust as a screen memory which replaces and misrepresents America’s own genocidal past. She has also worked as a volunteer and blog contributor for both the Wiener Library, London, and the US National World War II Museum, New Orleans.