Tamar Kugelmass is a Master’s student in Germanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the global rise of the New Right and the cultural struggles they have waged across the realms of higher education, literary publishing and the “Western canon.”

In particular, Tamar studies the “intellectual slippages” of the political movement wherein the far right, in order to achieve their vision of a counter-liberal hegemony, has begun to borrow from the critical inheritance of Marxist cultural theory. Tamar has also begun her Certificate in Migration Studies this fall where she will research the intersection of German memory culture and immigration discourse. In particular, she focuses on the way contemporary narratives of migration have converged with the myth of “imported anti-Semitism” to advance a politics of exclusion across Germany and the United States.