Michael Rothberg
Michael Rothberg is 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
From 2001-2016 he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first as Associate Professor and then as Professor of English. From 2003-2009 he was Director of Illinois's Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; from 2009-2016 he was Founding Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies; and from 2013-2016 he was Head of the Department of English.
His work has been published in such journals as American Literary History, Critical Inquiry, Cultural Critique, History and Memory, New German Critique, and PMLA, and has been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Spanish. His latest book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series and forthcoming in French and Polish translation. He is also the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000), and has co-edited The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003) as well as four journal special issues: Noeuds de Mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture (Yale French Studies, co-edited with Debarati Sanyal and Max Silverman); Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies (Interventions, co-edited with Jodi A. Byrd); States of Welfare (Occasion, co-edited with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Bruce Robbins); and Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory (Criticism, co-edited with Stef Craps). Together with Yasemin Yildiz he won a 2011-2012 ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for a co-authored book on immigration and Holocaust memory in contemporary Germany. Another book, The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, is under contract with Stanford University Press.
From 2001-2016 he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first as Associate Professor and then as Professor of English. From 2003-2009 he was Director of Illinois's Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; from 2009-2016 he was Founding Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies; and from 2013-2016 he was Head of the Department of English.
His work has been published in such journals as American Literary History, Critical Inquiry, Cultural Critique, History and Memory, New German Critique, and PMLA, and has been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Spanish. His latest book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series and forthcoming in French and Polish translation. He is also the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000), and has co-edited The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003) as well as four journal special issues: Noeuds de Mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture (Yale French Studies, co-edited with Debarati Sanyal and Max Silverman); Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies (Interventions, co-edited with Jodi A. Byrd); States of Welfare (Occasion, co-edited with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Bruce Robbins); and Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory (Criticism, co-edited with Stef Craps). Together with Yasemin Yildiz he won a 2011-2012 ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for a co-authored book on immigration and Holocaust memory in contemporary Germany. Another book, The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, is under contract with Stanford University Press.
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