B.A./M.A. Brown University (1970); Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Brown University (1975). Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.  She is the Co-director, with Lila Abu-Lughod, of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. She is the author of four books Beyond the Single Vision: Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson (1981); The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (1989); Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997); and, co-authored with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010). She has edited or co-edited nine 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; Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (2004); and Grace Paley Writing the World (2009), a special issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing.  Her book The Generation of Postmemory: Gender and Visuality After the Holocaust, and her co-edited volume Rites of Return are forthcoming. Professor Hirsch 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 was the Editor of PMLA from 2003 to 2006 and is on the advisory boards of two new journals, Memory Studies and Contemporary Women's Writing.