Marianne Hirsch
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Marianne Hirsch (born September 23, 1949) is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.[1]
Biography
Born in
In 1992, Hirsch introduced the term "postmemory," a concept that has subsequently been cited in hundreds of books and articles.
Hirsch's newest monograph, co-authored with Leo Spitzer, is School Pictures in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (University of Washington Press, 2019). Her other books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2012), Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-authored with Leo Spitzer (University of California Press, 2010), and Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (1997).
Edited and co-edited collections include Women Mobilizing Memory, co-edited with Ayşe Gül Altınay, Maria Jose Contreras, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon (Columbia University Press, 2019), Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements With Vernacular Photography, co-edited with Tina Campt, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis (Steidl, 2019), Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2011), Grace Paley Writing the World (co-ed. 2009), Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (co-ed. 2004), Time and the Literary (co-ed. 2002), and The Familial Gaze (ed. 1999). She also co-edited the Summer 2012 issue of e-misférica titled "On the Subject of Archives" with Diana Taylor and a special issue of Signs on "Gender and Cultural Memory" (2002).
Monographs
- Beyond the Single Vision: Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson. French Literature Publications Co., 1981.
- The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Indiana University Press, 1989.
- Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-written with Leo Spitzer. University of California Press, 2010.
- The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Columbia University Press, 2012.
- School Pictures in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference, co-written with Leo Spitzer. University of Washington Press, 2019.
Translations
- Marcos familiares [Family Frames], Buenos Aires: Prometeo Editorial, 2019.
- La Generación de la posmemoria: Escritura y cultura visual después del holocausto [The Generation of Postmemory], Madrid: Editorial Carpe Nortem, 2015.
Edited collections
- The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development, co-edited with Elizabeth Abel and Elizabeth Langland. University Press of New England, 1983.
- Conflicts in Feminism, co-edited with Evelyn Fox Keller. Routledge, 1990.
- Ecritures de femmes: Nouvelles cartographies, co-edited with MaryAnn Caws, Mary Jean Green, Ronnie Scharfman. Yale University Press, 1996.
- The Familial Gaze, editor. Dartmouth, 1999.
- Time and the Literary, co-edited with Karen Newman and Jay Clayton. Routledge, 2002.
- Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, co-edited with Irene Kacandes. The Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
- Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller. Columbia University Press, 2011.
- Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements With Vernacular Photography, co-edited with Tina Campt, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis. Steidl, 2019.
- Women Mobilizing Memory, co-edited with Ayse Gul Altinay, Maria Jose Contreras, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon. Columbia University Press, 2019.
Public interventions
- "In Conversation with Dr. Marianne Hirsch on Inherited Memory," part 1 of 9, Contemporary Jewish Museum, May 22, 2019.
- "Three Lessons About Autocracy I Learned as a Child in Communist Romania," op-ed in TruthOut.org, March 9, 2017.
- "We Can’t Turn Our Backs on 'Stateless' Youth," blog post in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 30, 2017.
- "Stateless Memories," keynote for the Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2017.
- "Portraits: Marianne Hirsch," Fondation Auschwitz, November 19, 2015.
- "From the President: Columns by Marianne Hirsch," Modern Language Association, 2013.
- "On the Subject of Archives," special issue of e-misférica, co-edited with Diana Taylor, vol. 9, iss. 1 & 2, summer 2012.
Notes
- ^ Department of English & Comparative Literature. Columbia University
- ISBN 978-031-240-381-2
- ^ "About the Authors" | Ghosts of Home
- ^ "Marianne Hirsch" | Dartmouth.edu
- ^ ""Town's forgotten history revived by research of Guggenheim Fellowship winner Marianne Hirsch" | Dartmouth News". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
- ^ ""Fellows of the Center" | National Humanities Center". Archived from the original on 2013-06-18. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
- ^ "Marianne Hirsch" | ACLS
- ^ "From the President" | MLA Archived 2015-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Advisory Board" | Oxford Journals, Contemporary Women's Writing
- ^ "Family Pictures: Maus, Mourning, and Post-Memory" | Discourse
- ^ Presidential Address 2014: Connective Histories in Vulnerable Times | PMLA
- ^ Guy Beiner, "Probing the Boundaries of Irish Memory: From Postmemory to Prememory and Back", Irish Historical Studies, 39, no. 154 (2014), 296-307.
- ^ "Issue 4: 1/2 – Figurations of Postmemory (eds. Emmanuel Alloa, Pierre Bayard & Soko Phay)". Retrieved 2019-11-21.
External links
- Official website at Columbia University
- Postmemory.net, Marianne Hirsch's personal website
- Faculty profile, Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University
- Marianne Hirsch on Academia.edu
- Women Creating Change at Columbia University