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: Fall 2009, Tuesdays, 3-5

 

BIOGRAPHY

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the Co-Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. 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 co-authored book with Leo Spitzer Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and History was published at University of California Press in January 2010. Other 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), Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (co-ed. 2004), and Grace Paley Writing the World (co-ed. 2009). Her book The Generation of Postmemory : Gender and Visuality After the Holocaust and her co-edited book Rites of Return are forthcoming in 2011. Marianne Hirsch 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.