Joseph Rosen teaches in the Humanities department at Dawson College. He writes about cultural trauma and memory, and his work has recently been published in Maisonneuve Magazine and The Walrus.

Follow him on Twitter @TheJosephRosen.

Publications

• The Third Solitude, Maisonneuve Magazine, 23 July 2015.
• Jew v. Jew v. Jew v. Jew v. Jew v. Jew, The Walrus, 1 September 2015.
• With Friends Like These, Why Hate Yourself? Stephen Harper’s Decade of anti-critical Support for Israel, The Harper Decade, 9 October 2015.
• The Israel Taboo, The Walrus, Jan/Febr 2014
• “Multigenerational Casserole Orchestras: the New Face of Anarchist Insurgency.” Wi: Journal of Mobile Media. Special issue: Out of the Mouths of ‘Casseroles’. Spring 2012.
• “Suffering & Responsibility: Between Améry and Levinas.” On Jean Améry: Philosophy of the Catastrophe. Ed. Magdalena Zolkos. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
• “Haiti Holdup: Bearing Witness to Canadian Complicity.” Darren Ell’s Haiti: Holdup. Ed. Rae Staseson. 2011.
• “Memory’s Exiles: a Dialogue on Palestinian & Jewish Diasporas.” (with Hanadi Loubani) Diaspora and Memory – Thamyris/Intersecting No 14. Eds. Marie-Aude Baronian, Stephan Besser, Yolande Jansen. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi Press, 2007.
• “From a Memory Beyond a Memory to a State Beyond the State: violence and the  politics of memory in the work of Emmanuel Levinas.” Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Eds. Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
• “Lunch with the Führer: Holocaust Comedy, Trauma, and the Enemy.” Poesis V.6: Re-Imagining Trauma. Ed. S. Levine. Toronto: EGS Press, 2004.
• “The Public Space of Memory: Opening  to the Future of Justice.” Fuse Magazine V. 26, No. 3, Toronto. 2003.

Education

• PhD Social & Political Thought, York University
• Post-doctoral researcher, Centre for Ethnographic Research & Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence, Concordia University