Franciosi has edited a collection of Wiesel's interviews spanning from his early career to present. Learn more about "Elie Wiesel: Conversations" at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog-bak/fall2002/elie_wiesel.html.
Franciosi is also the editor of "Good Morning" a Holocaust memoir by survivor Joseph Stevens. Learn more about this book at http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=755.
His current research interests center on American cultural responses to the Holocaust. He is completing a study of John Hersey's epic novel of the Warsaw Ghetto.
As a Grand Valley professor Franciosi teaches two Honors courses, "The Holocaust" and "Culture and the Holocaust" in which he regularly teaches Wiesel's "Night." His students are currently following Oprah's online discussion board to learn what the average person thinks about the Holocaust.
Franciosi and Dan Balfour, director of the School of Public Administration, have developed a new class for this spring semester which includes a two-week trip to Germany and Poland. The class will study the nature of memory and how the Holocaust has been memorialized and remembered by the cultures where it occurred, by both perpetrators and victims.
Media may contact Franciosi at (616) 331-3069 or [email protected].
