PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWaG)

Email: mh2349@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-5121
Office: 508a Philosophy Hall
Office hours: On leave Fall 2006

 

BIOGRAPHY

Marianne Hirsch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She was born in Romania, and educated at Brown University where she received her BA/MA and Ph.D. degrees. Before moving to Columbia, she taught at Dartmouth College for many years, most recently as the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities. Her recent publications include Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (1997), The Familial Gaze (ed.1999), Time and the Literary (co-ed.2002), a special issue of Signs on "Gender and Cultural Memory" (co-ed. 2002), and Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (co-ed. 2004). Over the last few years, she has also published numerous articles on cultural memory, visuality and gender, particularly on the representation of World War Two and the Holocaust in literature, testimony and photography. Her co-authored book with Leo Spitzer Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and History is forthcoming at University of California Press. She is the former editor of PMLA and 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 two new journals, Memory Studies and Contemporary Women's Writing.