The celebrated American-German writer and artist, Nora Krug, will deliver this year’s Grilk Lecture in German Studies. Krug’s work combines illustration, text, photography and archival documents to shed light on such topics as Nazi perpetration, authoritarianism, and the war in Ukraine.

Nora Krug is an award-winning German-American writer and illustrator and Associate Professor in the Illustration Program at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. In her critically acclaimed graphic memoir "Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home" Krug grapples with questions of guilt and responsibility as she probes her family’s role in World War II and the Holocaust. The book received many literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. Krug also adapted Timothy Snyder’s "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century", translating urgent historical lessons about democratic fragility into the graphic format. Her recent graphic narrative, "Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia," centers individual experiences during a war that is still ongoing.