Marianne HirschMarianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Hirsch's recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Coumbia University Press, 2012), Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-authored with Leo Spitzer (University of California Press, 2010), and Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2011). Read More Read Less