Marianne Hirsch is Co-Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference.  She is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature and a former Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She has recently published a number of essays and book chapters on cultural memory and gender in twentieth and twenty-first century culture, particularly on the representation of World War Two and the Holocaust in literature, testimony and photography. She is the author of Beyond the Single Vision: Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson (1981); The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (1989); and Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997). She has edited or co-edited eight volumes: Feminist Readings: French Texts/American Contexts, Special Issue of Yale French Studies (1982); The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development (1983); Conflicts in Feminism (1991); Ecritures de femmes: Nouvelles cartographies (1996); The Familial Gaze (1999); Time and the Literary: Essays from the 1999 English Institute (2002); Gender and Cultural Memory (2002), a special issue of Signs; and Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (2004). Her co-authored book with Leo Spitzer Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and History is forthcoming. Professor Hirsch has been a Guggenheim, ACLS, National Humanities Center, Rockefeller Foundation, and Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellow.