Alona Weimer

Alona is a PhD Student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she researches Black and Jewish literary and political writing, and theories of diasporic memory. Looking at the United States and Germany as sites to untangle the haunting afterlives of violence and the (im)possibility of repair, Alona is most interested in the rhetorical use of analogy, the theories and practices of reparations, and the mobilization of memory in social movements. Before beginning her PhD, Alona completed a masters degree in race and migration studies at Freie Universität Berlin, a fellowship studying talmudic texts at the Hadar Institute, and a Fulbright Grant teaching English in Chemnitz, Germany. Alona earned her BA in Black Studies at Brandeis University.