Vera Profit

Biography

Her specializations include post-1945 literature of the German-speaking countries, 20th-Century German lyric poetry, French poetry between the world wars, and the interrelationship of psychology and literature. Prof. Profit's fourth book The Devil Next Door: Toward a Literary and Psychological Definition of Human Evil was published in 2014. 
Since the publication of her latest book, she has been an invited speaker as part of the Hesburgh Lecture Series. She also delivered lectures at the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, Elkhart, IN, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI and has twice participated in the annual conference sponsored by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at ND.