Michael Rothberg#
| Membership Number: | 5711 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://michaelrothberg.weebly.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Affiliate of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
- 2001 - 2016 Associate and Full Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2009 - 2016 Director, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative
- 2009 - 2014 Conrad Humanities Scholar
- 2003 - 2009 Director, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- Affiliations with the Center for Global Studies; Department of French; Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; European Union Center; Program in Comparative and World Literature; Program in Jewish Culture and Society; and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- 1995 - 2001 Assistant Professor of English. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Fields of Scholarship
- Memory Studies
- Literary and Cultural Theory
- Jewish Studies
- Comparative Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2012 ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
- 2009 - 2014 Conrad Humanities Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 2009 Fellow, Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (VLAC), Brussels, Research Cluster: “Whither Trauma Theory?"
- 2004 - 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaiogn
- 2004 Visiting Research Fellow, Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, Germany
