Marianne Hirsch is professor emerita of comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent books are School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (University of Washington Press, 2020), coauthored with Leo Spitzer, and the coedited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press, 2019).
Marianne Hirsch
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Writing on Public Books
Rethinking Holocaust Memory after October 7
“Why continue to teach the Holocaust? Why continue to build and visit Holocaust memorials and museums?”
Women’s Ways of Aging
Studying human evolution reveals that older women have always been essential to the surviving and thriving of the species.
The Art of Protest
I marched with thousands on the streets of New York, asserting that “Trump is Not Our President” and “Love Trumps Hate.” So far we are free to assemble on Union Square in New York, to march up Fifth Avenue, to shout our anger, our fear, and our resolve. The street and soil are still ours to share. As I […]
Sweet Rage
Until the publication of the long-awaited See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid’s stories and novels had met with almost unqualified praise. When it appeared last year her latest book was almost unanimously trashed for what its reviewers saw as inappropriate and excessive rage directed at Kincaid’s former husband Allen Shawn. But reading the novel as a roman à clef […]
