Catherine Chatterley is a historian, an award-winning writer, and a frequent lecturer in Canada and the United States. Trained at The University of Chicago under the supervision of Moishe Postone, Michael Geyer, Mark Krupnick, and Peter Novick, Dr. Chatterley specializes in the study of modern European history, with particular emphasis on the history of Antisemitism and the Jewish-Gentile relationship.
Her first book, entitled Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, was published by Syracuse University Press and was a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. A second book entitled The Antisemitic Imagination is nearing completion and a third study on the future of Holocaust Studies is in development.
Dr. Chatterley teaches modern European history at the University of Manitoba and directs the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA), which she created in 2010.
Her first book, entitled Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, was published by Syracuse University Press and was a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. A second book entitled The Antisemitic Imagination is nearing completion and a third study on the future of Holocaust Studies is in development.
Dr. Chatterley teaches modern European history at the University of Manitoba and directs the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA), which she created in 2010.