Marianne Hirsch

Marianne Hirsch writes about the transmission of memories
of violence across generations. Her recent books include The Generation of
Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust;Ghosts of Home: The
Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-authored with Leo Spitzer; and
Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with
Nancy K. Miller. Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English
and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Director of the Institute
for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is one of the founders of
Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference. Hirsch is the recipient
of numerous grants and awards, including Guggenheim, ACLS, Mary Ingraham
Bunting, Bellagio and Bogliasco fellowships.