Marianne Hirsch

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Marianne Hirsch (born September 23, 1949 in Timișoara ) is a Romanian-American literary scholar.

Life

Marianne Hirsch's parents escaped the persecution of the Jews in Chernivtsi to Timișoara during the Second World War . The family emigrated from Romania to the USA in 1962.

Hirsch studied at Brown University , where he also received his doctorate. Since then she has taught comparative literature for thirty years at Dartmouth College , where she co-founded the Women's Studies program. Hirsch was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , she received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center (NHC) and other programs.

Hirsch became Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and was also professor at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Hirsch co-founded the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University and its “Women Creating Change” initiative.

Hirsch worked in the Modern Language Association (MLA) and was president there for a time. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Hirsch has been working with her husband, the historian Leo Spitzer , since 1992 on a concept of "postmemory", the transfer of memory content to other people or groups who are locally or temporally distant.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust . New York: Columbia University Press, 2012
  • with Nancy K. Miller (Ed.): Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory . New York: Columbia University Press, 2011
  • with Leo Spitzer : Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory . University of California Press, 2010
  • (Mhrsg.): Grace Paley Writing the World . Oxford: Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Points of remembrance: Shoah photographs in contemporary narratives . In: Photo History , Vol. 25, H. 95 (2005), pp. 29–44
  • with Irene Kacandes (Ed.): Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust . New York: Modern Language Assoc. of America, 2004
  • (Mhrsg.): Time and the Literary . 2002
  • (Mhrsg.): The Familial Gaze . Hanover (NH): Dartmouth College, 1999
  • Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997
  • with Evelyn Fox Keller (Ed.): Conflicts in Feminism . New York: Routledge, 1990 ISBN 0-415-90177-4
  • The Mother-Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989
  • Beyond the Single Vision: Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson . Birmingham / Ala. : Summa Publ., 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo Spitzer: Hotel Bolivia: on the trail of memories of a refuge from National Socialism . Translation from the American Ursula C. Sturm. Vienna: Picus, 2003
  2. ↑ Marianne Hirsch: Post Memory , website
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara