{"id":3467,"date":"2018-08-13T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:51:08","slug":"marianne-hirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/marianne-hirsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Hirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/marianne-hirsch\/marianne_hirsch_rgb-200x300-2\/#main\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3468 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/08\/marianne_hirsch_RGB-200x300-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Marianne Hirsch\u00a0is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former\u00a0 President of the Modern Language Association of America. She was born in Romania, and educated at Brown University where she received her BA\/MA and Ph.D. degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Hirsch\u2019s work combines feminist theory with memory studies, particularly the transmission of memories of violence across generations.\u00a0 Her recent books include\u00a0<em>The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust<\/em>\u00a0(Columbia University Press, 2012),\u00a0<em>Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory<\/em>, co-authored with Leo Spitzer (University of California Press, 2010),\u00a0<em>Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory<\/em>, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2011). With Diana Taylor she co-edited the Summer 2012 issue of\u00a0<em>\u00e9-misferica<\/em>\u00a0on \u201cThe Subject of Archives.\u201d Other publications include\u00a0<em>Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory<\/em>\u00a0(1997),\u00a0<em>The Familial Gaze<\/em>\u00a0(ed.1999),\u00a0<em>Time and the Literary<\/em>\u00a0(co-ed.2002), a special issue of\u00a0<em>Signs<\/em>\u00a0on \u201cGender and Cultural Memory\u201d (co-ed. 2002),\u00a0<em>Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust<\/em>\u00a0(co-ed. 2004), and\u00a0<em>Grace Paley Writing the World<\/em> (co-ed. 2009). Two books are forthcoming this year the co-authored\u00a0<i>School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference<\/i>(University of Washington Press)<i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0and a co-edited volume\u00a0<i>Women Mobilizing Memory<\/i>\u00a0(Columbia UP).\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Marianne Hirsch is the former editor of\u00a0<em>PMLA<\/em>\u00a0and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, the National Humanities Center, and the Bellagio and Bogliasco Foundations. She has served on the MLA Executive Council, the ACLA Advisory Board, the Board of Supervisors of The English Institute, and the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, and is on the advisory boards of\u00a0<em>Memory Studies<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Contemporary Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>. She is one of the founders of Columbia\u2019s Center for the Study of Social Difference, and its global initiative \u201cWomen Creating Change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Hirsch\u00a0is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. 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