Susan Derwin is the director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and a professor of German and comparative literature. For the last five years, her teaching and writing have been devoted to the issues of social reintegration confronting military veterans and to publicly-engaged humanities. She is founding director of the University of California Veterans Summer Writing Workshop and of Foundations in the Humanities, a correspondence program for incarcerated individuals operating in multiple California prisons. She is the author of "The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel" and "Rage Is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film," as well as essays on trauma, psychoanalysis and literature, moral injury, and narrative healing.