Claudia Moscovici earned an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and taught philosophy and literature at Boston University and the University of Michigan. She is the author of several scholarly books on Romantic literature (Romanticism and Postromanticism, Lexington Books, 2007) and of the critically acclaimed novels Velvet Totalitarianism (2009) and The Seducer (2011). Most recently, she published a survey of Holocaust memoirs, histories, novels and films called Holocaust Memories (2019).