Welcome Marianne Hirsch, Rosenberg Senior Scholar 2025

Please join us in welcoming Marianne Hirsch, as a William Rosenberg Senior Scholar, thanks to funding from the Claims Conference.

Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. She is a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012) and the co-edited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (2019).  She is working on a book about reparative memory.

Together with Leo Spitzer, Hirsch has also co-authored two books: Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020).

As Senior Scholar, Hirsch will produce an annotated critical edition of a testimony for our Critical Edition Series as part of our Claims Conference Grant Unlocking Survivor Testimony: A Program to Produce Critical Annotated Editions of Non-English Holocaust Testimonies.