Marrianne Hirsch

Marrianne Hirsch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She joins Columbia from Dartmouth College where she was the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities. She is the Editor of PMLA. She has been a Guggenheim, ACLS, National Humanities Center, Rockefeller Foundation, and Mary Ingraham Bunting, Fellow. She served on the MLA Executive Council (1992-95); the ACLA, Advisory Board (1993-97); the Board of Supervisors of The English Institute (1997-2000); and the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, (1998-2001). She has recently published a number of essays and book chapters on cultural memory and gender in twentieth and has twenty-first century culture, particularly on the representation of World War Two and the Holocaust in literature, testimony and photography. She is the author of Beyond the Single Vision: Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson (1981); The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (1989); and Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997). She has edited or co-edited eight volumes: Feminist Readings: French Texts/American Contexts, Special Issue of Yale French Studies (1982); The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development (1983); Conflicts in Feminism (1991); Ecritures de femmes: Nouvelles cartographies (1996); The Familial Gaze (1999); Time and the Literary: Essays from the 1999 English Institute (2002); Gender and Cultural Memory (2002), a special issue of Signs; and Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (2004). She is currently writing a book with Leo Spitzer entitled Ghosts of Home: Czernowitz and the Holocaust. For more information, visit Marianne Hirsch’s website.