Feminist Archives of Possibility

marianne hirsch writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2012); Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (University of California Press, 2010), coauthored with Leo Spitzer; and Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (Columbia University Press, 2011), coedited with Nancy K. Miller. Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University and the director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference. She is a former president of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.