Michael Rothberg | |
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 Michael Rothberg 2024 Kampnagel | |
| Born | |
| Spouse | Yasemin Yildiz |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., 1988, English and Linguistics, Swarthmore College PhD., Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center |
| Thesis | Documenting barbarism: memory, culture, and modernity after the "Final solution" (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nancy K. Miller |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English |
| Sub-discipline | Holocaust studies |
| Institutions | University of Miami University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of California, Los Angeles |
| Main interests | Holocaust studies, trauma and memory studies, critical theory and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and contemporary literatures |
| Website | michaelrothberg |
Michael Rothberg is an American literature and memory studies scholar. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was the founding director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.