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Book Reviews

• “Holocaust Testimony Beyond the Frame.” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2020.

Scholarly Reflections

• Myers, David. “Knowing the Victim? Reflections on Empathy, Analogy, and Voice from the Shoah to the Present.”With Judith Butler, Cheryl Greenberg, Marianne Hirsch, and Robin D.G. Kelly. June 2020.
• “Women’s Ways of Aging.” Public Books. June 2020.
• “Photography in the Age of Social Distance.” ConTactos Tome Press. June 2020.

Scholarly Articles

• “Comment mobiliser les archives de la postmémoire?” Les archives du silence, edited by Soko Phay et Pierre Bayard, in process.
• “Stateless Memory.” Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, vol. 2, no. 3, 2019, pp. 416-434.
• “Introduction: Practicing Feminism, Practicing Memory.” Women Mobilizing Memory, edited by Ayse Gul Altinay, Maria Jose Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon, Columbia University Press, 2019.
• “Feminist Archives of Possibility.” d i f f e r e n c e s: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2018, pp. 173-188.
• “Debts.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017.
• “Pausing.” Susan Meiselas: Mediations, Jeu de Paume and Fondacion Antoni Tapiès, 2018.
•  “Ce qui touche à la mémoire.” Translated by Jennifer Orth-Veillon and Jonathan Chalier, Exprit, vol. 438, October 2017, pp. 42-61. (Click here for English translation.)
• “Foreword.” Memory as Colonial Capital, edited by Erica Johnson and Eloise Brezault, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.
• Память и контрпамять будущего: Конспект лекции Марианны Хирш,“Memory and Counter-Memory for the Future,” translated by Ekaterina Suverina, https://urokiistorii.ru/article/53875.
• Марианна Хирш: «Есть разница между постпамятью и мобилизацией патриотических чувств» / интервью, Interview by Alexandra Lozinskaya, October 2016.
• “Connective Arts of Postmemory.” Catalogue Essay in From Generation to Generation, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2016.
• “Vulnerable Times.” Being Contemporary, edited by Sara Kippur & Lia Brozgal, Edinburgh UP, 2016, and in Rethinking Vulnerability: Towards a Feminist Theory of Resistance, edited by Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, & Leticia Sabsay, Duke UP, 2016.
• “Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of Transnistria” (with Leo Spitzer). Journal of Literature & Trauma Studies, vol. 4, no. 1-2, 2015, pp., and in Memory Unbound: New Directions in Memory Studies, edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps & Pieter Vermeulen, Berghahn, 2016, pp.
• “The Afterlife of Class Photos: Schooling, Assimilation, Exclusion” (with Leo Spitzer). Partizipation und Exklusion: Zur Habsburger Praegung von Sprache und Bildung in der Bukowina, edited by Markus Winkler, Verlag Friedrich Puster, 2016.
• “Les souvenirs des autres.” Tenoua, April 2016.
• “Der Schmerz meiner Grossmutter.” Kulturaustausch, Jan. 2016. Russian Translation, Что такое постпамять / перевод статьи Марианны Хирш, 2016.
• “Connective Histories in Vulnerable Times.” PMLA, vol. 129, no. 3, May 2014, pp.
• “First Person Plural: Voice and Collaboration” (with Leo Spitzer). Writing Otherwise: Experimentation in Social and Cultural Theory, edited by Jackey Stacy & Janet Wolff, Manchester UP, 2013, and in The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions, edited by Angelika Bammer & Ruth Ellen Joeres, Palgrave McMillan, 2015.
• “School Pictures and their Afterlives” (with Leo Spitzer). Feeling Photography, edited by Elspeth Brown & Thy Phu, Duke UP, 2014.
• “Street Photographs in Crisis: Cernauti, Romania, Ca. 1943” (with Leo Spitzer). Picturing Atrocity, edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller & Jay Prosser, Reaktion Books, 2012.
• “The Web and the Reunion” (with Leo Spitzer). Rites of Return, edited by Marianne Hirsch & Nancy K. Miller, Columbia University Press, 2011.
• “Vulnerable Lives Secrets Dust Noise” (with Leo Spitzer). Profession, vol. 17, 2011, pp. .
• “Objects of Return.” After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature for the Future, edited by Susan Suleiman, James Phelan, & Jakob Lothe, Ohio University Press, 2012, and in The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time, edited by Geraldine Pratt & Victoria Rosner, Columbia University Press, 2012 .
• “The Russian Year” (with Leo Spitzer). The Holocaust in Czernowitz and Bukowina, edited by Vadim Altskan, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2011.
• “Mirta Kupferminc’s Rootless Routes.” Catalogue Essay, Yeshiva University Museum, 2010.
• “Teaching Narrative and Visual Culture.” Teaching Narrative Theory, edited by James Phelan et al., MLA, 2010.
• “’Solidarité et souffrance:’ Le camp de Vapniarka parmi les camps de Transnistrie” (with Leo Spitzer). Revue de l’histoire de la Shoah, vol. 194, no. 1, 2011, pp. 343-368.
• “The Cernauti Ghetto” (with Leo Spitzer). Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, edited by Valentina Glajar & Jeannine Teodorescu, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• “Incongruous Images: ‘Before, During and After’ the Holocaust” (with Leo Spitzer). History and Theory, December 2009, and in Performing the Past: Memory, History and Identity in Modern Europe, edited by Karin Tilmans, F.P.I.M. van Vree, & Jay Winter, Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
• “Grace Paley Writing the World.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2009, pp. 121-126.
• “’What We Need Right Now is to Imagine the Real:’ Grace Paley Writing Against War.” PMLA, vol. 124, no. 5, October 2009, pp. 1768-77.
• “The Family Romance in the Age of Photography.” Photography and Literature, edited by Antonio Ansón & Ferdinando Scianna, Madrid Ministry of Culture, 2009.
• “The Witness in the Archive: Holocaust Studies/Memory Studies” (with Leo Spitzer). Memory Studies, vol. no., Spring 2009, and in Memory: History, Theory, Debates, edited by Susannah Radstone & Bill Schwartz, Fordham University Press, 2010.
• “The Tile Stove” (with Leo Spitzer). WSQ, Special Issue on Witness, vol. , no. , Spring 2008, pp.
• “The Generation of Postmemory.”Poetics Today, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 103-128; rpt. in On Writing and Photography, edited by Karen Beckman & Liliane Weisberg, Minnesota UP, 2013.
• “Die Sprachen der Czernowitzer Juden: Zwischen Assimilation und Widerstand” (with Leo Spitzer). Spuren eines Europäers: Karl Emil Franzos, edited by Amy Colin, Moses Mendelsohn Zentrum, 2008.
• “Femminismo e memoria culturale” (with Valerie Smith). Narrativa storica e riscrittura: temi e tenenze, edited by Daniela Corona, et. al., Palermo, 2007.
• “Introduction: Grace Paley & Robert Nichols.” Here and Somewhere Else, The Feminist Press, 2007.
• “La piel de la memoria” (with Leo Spitzer). Debata Feminista, vol. 36, no. 1, October 2007, pp. 171-172.
• “Ohne euch währen wir nie zurückgekehrt: Generationen von Nostalgie” (with Leo Spitzer). “Czernowitz bei Sadagora”: Identitäten und kulturelles Gedächtnis im mitteleuropäischen Raum, edited by Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Hartung Gorre, 2006.
• “What’s Wrong with This Picture? Archival Photographs in Contemporary Narratives” (with Leo Spitzer). Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, July 2006, pp. 229-252. In Czech translation, edited by Alexandr Kratochvil, Co je to paměť a trauma? 16 odpovědí v teoretických textech humanitních věd. Projekt, Týmu paměti a traumatu ÚČL”, Vyjde 2015.
• “Just Writing, A Feminist’s Life.” S&Fonline, vol. 4, no. 2, 2006.
• “The First Blow: Torture and Close Reading.” PMLA, vol. 121, no. 2, March 2006.
• “There Was Never a Camp Here: Searching for Vapniarka.” Locating Memory, edited by Annette Kuhn & Kirsten McAllister, Berghahn, 2006.
• “Testimonial Objects: Memory, Gender, Transmission” (with Leo Spitzer). Poetics Today, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 353-384; and in Diaspora and Memory, edited by M. Baronian, S. Besser, & Y. Janssen, Thamyris, 2006.
• “Uprooted Words on a Bookshelf in Chernivtsi.” PMLA, vol. 121, no. 4, October 2006.
• “What Can a Journal Essay Do?” PMLA, vol. 121, no. 3, May 2006.
• “Erinnerungspunkte: Schoahfotografien in zeitgenössischen Erzählungen” (with Leo Spitzer). Fotogeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie vol. 95, no. 1, 2005, pp. 29-44.
• “In Medias Res.” PMLA, vol. 120, no. 2, March 2005, pp. 321-326.
• “What’s Wrong with These Terms?: A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Diana Taylor.” PMLA, vol. 120, no. 4, October 2005
• “Introduction” & “Afterword.” Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, edited with Irene Kacandes, “Options for Teaching” Series, Modern Languages Association, 2004.
• “Collateral Damage.” PMLA, vol. 119, no. 5, October 2004, pp. 1209-1215.
• “On the Way to the Forum.” PMLA, vol. 119, no. 1, January 2004, pp. 9-15.
• “‘We Would Not Have Come Without You:’ Generations of Nostalgia” (with Leo Spitzer). American Imago, Special Issue on “Postmemories of the Holocaust,” edited by Jay Geller vol. 59, no. 3, Fall 2002, pp. ; rpt. in Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Kate Hodgkin & Susannah Radstone, Routledge, 2003.
• “The Day Time Stopped.” The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, January 2002; rpt. in The Brown Alumni Magazine, March 2002.
• “Täter-Fotografien in der Kunst nach dem Holocaust: Geschlecht als ein Idiom der Erinnerung.” Gedächtnis und Geschlecht: Deutungsmuster in Darstellungen des Nationalsozilistischen Genozids, edited by Insa Eschebach, Sigrid Jacobeit, & Silke Wenk, Campus, 2002.
• “Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art: Gender as an Idiom of Memorialization.” in Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, edited by Omer Bartov, Atina Grossman, & Molly Noble, New Press, 2002; rpt. in Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative, edited by Andrea Noble, University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
• “Marked by Memory: Feminist Reflections on Trauma and Transmission.” Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, Community, edited by Nancy K. Miller & Jason Tougaw, University of Illinois Press, 2002.
• “Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory.” Yale Journal of Criticism, Spring 2001; rpt. in Visual Culture and the Holocaust, “Depth of Field” Series, edited by Barbie Zelizer, Rutgers University Press, 2001.
• “Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art” (with Susan Suleiman). Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust, edited by Julia Epstein & Lori Lefkowitz, University of Illinois Press, 2001; rpt. in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust, edited by Shelley Hornstein & Florence Jacobowitz, Indiana University Press, 2002.
• “Jamaica Kincaid” (with Ivy Schweitzer). African American Writers, edited by Valerie Smith, Scribner’s, 2000.
• “Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy.” Acts of Memory, edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, & Leo Spitzer, University Press of New England, 1999; rpt. in Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, edited by David Bartholomae & Anthony Petrosky, Bedford/St. Martin, 2002.
• “Kraut und Rüben, choux et navets, kapozta és répak.” Essays on the Art and Theory of Translation, edited by John Kopper & Lenore Grenoble, Mellen Press, 1997.
• “Representing the Holocaust: Film and Video” (with Leo Spitzer). The Holocaust: Introductory Essays, edited by Wolfgang Mieder & David Scrase, University of Vermont Center for Holocaust Studies, 1996.
• “Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile.” Poetics Today, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 659-686; rpt. in Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances, edited by Susan Suleiman, Duke University Press, 1998.
• “Feminism at the Maternal Divide: A Diary.” The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right, edited by Annelise Orleck, Alexis Jetter & Diana Taylor, University Press of New England, 1996.
• “Photos de famille.” Translated by Lori St. Martin, Tangence, 1995.
• “Knowing Their Names: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” New Essays on Song of Solomon, edited by Valerie Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1994; rpt. in Modern Critical Views: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.
• “Masking the Subject.” Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis, edited by Mieke Bal & Inge Boer, Amsterdam University Press, 1994.
• “Reading Ruth with Naomi.” Reading Ruth, edited by Judith Kates & Gail Reimer, Ballantine, 1994.
• “Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood.” Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question, edited by Angelika Bammer, Indiana University Press, 1994; rpt. in Confessions of the Critics, edited by Aram Veeser, Routledge, 1996.
• “Resisting Images: Rereading Adolescence.” Girls, Girlhood and Girls’ Studies in Transition, edited by Marion de Ras & Mieke Lunenberg, Het Spinhuis, 1993; rpt. in Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice, edited by Judith Kegan Gardiner, University of Illinois Press, 1994.
• “Jane’s Family Romances.” Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature, edited by Margaret Higonnet, Cornell University Press, 1994.
• “Maternity and Rememory.” Motherhood and Representation, edited by Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey, Meryle Kaplan, Yale University Press, 1994.
• “Family Pictures: Maus, Mourning and Post-Memory.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 1992-93, pp. 3-29.
• “Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah” (with Leo Spitzer). Gendering War Talk, edited by Miriam Cooke & Angela Woollacott, Princeton University Press, 1993.
• “The Darkest Plots: Narration and Compulsory Heterosexuality.” rpt. from The Mother Daughter Plot in Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Margaret Homans, Prentice Hall/New Century Views, 1993, pp. 196-209.
• “Maternal Narratives: Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood.” Reading Black, Reading Feminist, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Meridian Books, 1990; rpt. in Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives, Past and Present, edited by Henry Louis Gates & K. Anthony Appiah, Amistad Media Ltd., 1993.
• “Clytemnestra’s Children: Writing (Out) the Mother’s Anger.” Modern Critical Views: Alice Walker, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
• “Maternal Anger: Silent Themes in Psychoanalytic Feminism.”Minnesota Review, n.s., vol. 29, Fall 1987, pp. 81-87.
• “Female Family Romances and the ‘Old Dream of Symmetry.’” Literature and Psychology, vol. 32, no. 4, Winter 1986, pp. 37-47.
• “Ideology, Form and Grimm’s Allerleirauh: Reflections on Reading for the Plot.” Children’s Literature, vol. 14, no. 1, 1986, pp. 163-168; rpt. in Narrative Theory: Critical Perspectives, edited by Mieke Bal, Routledge, 2004.
• “A Spiritual Bildung: The Beautiful Soul as Paradigm.” The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development, edited by Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch & Elizabeth Langland, University Press of New England, 1983.
• “‘They Shared a Laboratory Together:’ Feminist Collaboration in the Academy” (with Elizabeth Abel & Elizabeth Langland).” Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983, pp. 165-167.
• “A Mother’s Discourse: Incorporation and Repetition in La Princesse de Clèves.” Yale French Studies, vol. 62, no. 1, 1982, pp. 67-87.
• “Gender, Reading and Desire in Moderato Cantabile.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 1982, pp. 69-85.
• “Mothers and Daughters: A Review Essay.”Signs, vol. 7, no. 2, 1981, pp. 200-222; rpt. in Ties that Bind: Essays on Mothering and Patriarchy, edited by Jean F. O’Barr, Deborah Pope, & Mary Wyer, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
• “Michel Butor: The Decentralized Vision.”Contemporary Literature, vol. 22, no. 3, 1981, pp. 326-348.
• “Godard and Rochefort: Two or Three Things about Prostitution” (with Mary Jean Green & Lynn Higgins). French Review, vol. 41, no. 3, 1979, pp. 440-448.
• “A Conversation with Christiane Rochefort” (with Mary Jean Green & Lynn Higgins). L’Esprit Createur, vol. 19, no. 2, 1979, pp. 107-120.
• “An Interview with Michel Butor.”Contemporary Literature, vol. 19, no. 3, 1978, pp. 262-279.
• “From Great Expectations to Lost Illusions: The Novel of Formation as Genre.” Genre, vol. 12, no. 3, 1979, pp. 293-311.