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Michael Rothberg

English
Director of Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Jewish Culture and Society
Comparative and World Literature
Germanic Languages and Literatures

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Publications

Books

  • Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
  • Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics and the Profession. Ed. Peter Garrett and Michael Rothberg. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.
  • The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Ed. Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg. New Brunswick, NJ & Edinburgh, UK: Rutgers UP & Edinburgh UP, 2003.
  • Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Book Contributions

  • "Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies." The Oxford Handbook to Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Graham Huggan. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
  • "Fractured Relations: The Multidirectional Holocaust Memory of Caryl Phillips." After Testimony: The Ethics of Holocaust Narrative. Ed. Jakob Lothe, James Phelan, and Susan Suleiman. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2011. Forthcoming.
  • "Multidirectional Memory and the Universalization of the Holocaust." Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate. Ed. Jeffrey Alexander. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • "Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of André Schwarz-Bart." After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture. Ed. Robert Ehrenreich and R. C. Spargo. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
  • "Seeing Terror, Feeling Art: Public and Private in Post-9/11 Literature." Literature After 9/11. Ed. Ann Keniston and Jeanne Quinn. New York: Routledge, 2008. 123-42.
  • "Der Holocaust, Kolonialphantasien und der Israel-Palastina Konflikt: Multi-Direktionale Erinnerung." Zwischen Antisemitismus und Islamophobie: Vorurteile und Projektionen in Europa und Nahost. Ed. John Bunzl and Alexandra Senfft. Hamburg: VSA, 2008. 177-94.
  • "Roth and the Holocaust." The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth. Ed. Timothy Parrish. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 52-67.
  • "Construction Work: Theory, Migration, and Labor in an Age of Globalization." On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Ed. Ian Buchanan and Caren Irr. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. 117-41.
  • "Pedagogy and the Politics of Memory: ‘The Countermonument Project.’." Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust. Ed. Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes. New York: MLA, 2004. 466-76.
  • Rothberg , Michael . "Le Coup de grâce as Male Fantasy: On the Sexual Politics of Fascism." Subversive Subjects: Rereading Marguerite Yourcenar. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004.
  • "’There Is No Poetry In This’: Writing, Trauma, and Home." Trauma at Home: After 9/11. Ed. Judith Greenberg. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 147-57.

Journal Articles

  • "Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge and the Narratology of Transitional Justice." Narrative (2012):
  • Byrd, Jodi A., and Michael Rothberg. "Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 13.1 (2011): 1-12.
  • "From Gaza to Warsaw: Mapping Multidirectional Memory." Criticism (2011): forthcoming.
  • Goodlad, Lauren M., and Michael Rothberg. "Preface: States of Welfare." Occasion 2 (2011): online.
  • Rothberg, Michael, and Yasemin Yildiz. "Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany." Parallax 61 (2011):
  • "Between Memory and Memory: From Lieux de Mémoire to Noeuds de Mémoire." Yale French Studies (2010): 3-12.
  • "Quantifying Culture? A Response to Eric Slauter." American Literary History (2010): 341-46.
  • "After Apartheid, Beyond Filiation: Witnessing and the Work of Justice." Law and Literature 21.2 (2009): 275-90.
  • "In the Nazi Cinema: Race, Visuality, and Identification in Fanon and Klüger." Wasafiri 24.1 (2009): 13-20.
  • Druker, Joanthan , and Michael Rothberg. "A Secular Alternative: Primo Levi’s Place in American Holocaust Discourse." Shofar (2009): 104-26.
  • "A Failure of the Imagination: Diagnosing the Post-9/11 Novel: A Response to Richard Gray." American Literary History (2009):
  • "Entre Auschwitz et Algérie: Une mémoire multidirectionnelle." Témoigner entre Histoire et Mémoire (2009): 105-27.
  • "Decolonizing Trauma Studies: A Response." Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (2008): 224-34.
  • "Beyond Eichmann: Rethinking the Emergence of Holocaust Memory." History and Theory 46.1 (2007): 74-81.
  • "Between Auschwitz and Algeria: Multidirectional Memory and the Counterpublic Witness." Critical Inquiry 33.1 (2006): 158-84.
  • "Against Zero-Sum Logic: A Response to Walter Benn Michaels." American Literary History 18.2 (2006): 303-11.
  • "The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer, Cinéma Vérité, and the Emergence of the Holocaust Survivor." PMLA 119.5 (2004): 1231-46.
  • "Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon’s Posthumous Communication." African American Review 37.4 (2003): 501-16.
  • Levi, Neil, and Michael Rothberg. "Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Towards an Ethics of the Borderlands." Symploke 11.1-2 (2003): 23-38.
  • Rothberg, Michael, and Jared Stark. "After the Witness: A Report from the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale." History and Memory 15.1 (2003): 85-96.
  • "W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw: Holocaust Memory and the Color Line, 1949-1952." Yale Journal of Criticism 14.1 (2001): 169-89.
  • "After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe." New German Critique 72 (1997): 45-81.
  • "Documenting Barbarism: Yourcenar's Male Fantasies, Theweleit's Coup." Cultural Critique 29 (1995): 77-105.
  • "'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production." Contemporary Literature 35.4 (1994): 661-87.
  • "Small Acts, Global Acts: Paul Gilroy's Transnationalism." Found Object 4 (1994): 17-26.