Michael Rothberg - Curriculum Vitae#

Current Position

• University of California, Los Angeles
  
• 2016 - present 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
  
• Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  
• Affiliate of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

Previous Positions

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  • 2013 - 2016 Head of the Department of English
    
  • 2009 - 2016 Professor of English
    
  • 2009 - 2016 Director, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative
    
  • 2009 - 2014 Conrad Humanities Scholar
    
  • 2003 - 2009 Director, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
    
  • 2001 - 2009 Associate Professor of English
    

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

• University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
  
• 1995 - 2001 Assistant Professor of English
  
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2000 - 2001
  
• City University of New York
  
• Spring 1995 Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Studies. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
  
• 1993 - 1994 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature. Queens College

Education

• 1991 - 1995 City University of New York Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY. Department of Comparative Literature. M.Phil. 1994. Ph.D. 1995.
  Dissertation: "Documenting Barbarism: Memory, Culture, and Modernity After the 'Final Solution.'" [Dissertation director: Nancy K. Miller]
  
• 1988 - 1989 Duke University, Durham, NC. Graduate course work in literature and theory, Program in Literature.
  
• 1984 - 1988 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. B.A degree in English and Linguistics with Highest Honors, 1988.
  
• 1986 - 1987 American Center for Film and Literary Criticism, Paris, France. Course work in French film theory and literary criticism