Warren Lubline:  

Life After graduating from Temple University in 1982, I moved to Sweden where I had worked as an undergraduate. I lived, studied and worked there until 1992. During these years, I studied Philosophy and the History of Ideas at Gothenburg University, and worked everything from language teaching to the mental health field to finally becoming a journalist, a jazz club MC, and foreign film importer to Sweden. I also played baseball, finally getting a chance to pitch and exorcize my baseball jones. I finally returned, somewhat reluctantly, to the United States. I moved to Minnesota where I began studying at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. I held many research positions there in subjects as varied as French cartographic history, public policy analysis, american philosophical history, Scandinavian health care, and finally and most importantly, at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide studies. I was awarded a masters degree in 2000 after doing work in philosophical hermeneutics and the literature of Samuel Beckett. I have passed my oral and written doctoral examinations and will hopefully finish my doctoral degree this year, 2005, with a dissertation on Alain Resnais'1955 French documentary, Night and Fog, an early attempt to establsh the significance of the concentrationary universe of Nazi Germany. The working title of this work is Night and Fog and the Cinematic Monument. I am currently assistant director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies where I am working on a cirriculum on the Armenian genocide for High Schools. I taught history at the University of Minnesota as well as film history and theory at a local college. I am a swimmer and a great lover of jazz music, ...Expand for more