Articles and Review Essays
"Lived Multidirectionality: 'Historikerstreit 2.0' and the Politics of Holocaust Memory." Mnemonic Wars: New Constellations, special issue of Memory Studies 15.6 (2022): 1316-1329.
“Trump and the 'Jewish Question.'” With Neil Levi.Studies in American Jewish Literature39.1(2020): 4-16.
“Of Beneficiaries and Other Implicated Subjects.” Review essay on Bruce Robbins, The Beneficiary. Contemporary Literature 59.4 (Winter 2019): 528-538.
“Memory Studies in a Moment of Danger: Fascism, Post-Fascism and the Contemporary Political Imaginary.” With Neil Levi. Special issue on Transnational Memory Studies, ed. Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney. Memory Studies (2018).
“Multidirectional Memory und Verwobene Geschichte(n): Ein Gedenkaustausch zwischen Iman Attia und Michael Rothberg.” Special issue on Geschichte Schreiben [Writing History], edited by Manuela Bauche and Sharon Dodua Otoo. Neue Rundschau 190.2 (2018): 92-105. English version: “Multidirectional Memory and Verwobene Geschichte(n) [Entangled (Hi)stories]: A Conversation between Iman Attia and Michael Rothberg.” TRANSIT 12.1 (2019). Online.
"For Activist Thought: A Response to Bryan Cheyette." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry 5.1 (2018): 115-122.
"Trauma Theory, Implicated Subjects, and the Question of Israel/Palestine." Profession (2014). Online. [Spanish translation forthcoming in Puentes (Argentina).]
“‘Ensnared in Implication’: Writing, Shame, and Colonialism.” Rev. of Timothy Bewes, The Event of Postcolonial Shame. Contemporary Literature 53.2 (2012): 374-86.
"Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge and the Narratology of Transitional Justice." Narrative 20.1 (January 2012): 1-24.
“From Gaza to Warsaw: Mapping Multidirectional Memory.” Criticism 53.4 (2011): 523-48. [German Translation: "Von Gaza nach Warschau: Die Kartierung des multidirektionalen Gedächtnisses," in "Holocaust"-Fiktion: Kunst jenseits der Authentizität, ed. Iris Roebling-Grau and Dirk Rupnow (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2015), 37-61.] [Hungarian translation: "Gázától Varsóig: A többirányú emlékezer feltérképezése," in Transznacionális politika és a holokauszt emlékezettörénete, ed. Anna Lujza Szász and Máté Zombory (Budapest, 2014), 236-60.] [Spanish translation: “De Gaza a Varsovia: hacia un mapa de la memoria multidireccional,” in Estudios sobre memoria: Perspectivas actuals y nuevos escenarios, ed. Silvana Mandolessi and Maximilano Alonso (Villa María, Chile: Euvim, 2015).] [Swedish translation: “Fran Gaza till Warszawa: Kartläggning av det mangförgrenade minnet,” in Mellan Minne och Glömska: Studier I det Kulturella Minnets Förvandlingar, ed. Johan Redin and Hans Ruin (Göteborg: Daidalos, 2016), 263-289.]
“Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Parallax. Special Issue: “Transcultural Memory” 17.4 (October-December 2011): 32-48.
“Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies.” With Jodi A. Byrd. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 13.1 (2011): 1-12.
“Between Memory and Memory: From Lieux de mémoire to Noeuds de mémoire.” Yale French Studies 118-119 (2010): 3-12.
“A Secular Alternative: Primo Levi’s Place in American Holocaust Discourse.” With Jonathan Druker. Shofar 28.1 (2009): 104-26.
“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. Special Issue: “Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas” 24.1 (2009): 13-20.
“Decolonizing Trauma Studies: A Response.” Studies in the Novel. Special Issue: "Postcolonial Trauma Novels" 40.1-2 (Spring-Summer 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. [French translation: “Entre Auschwitz et Algérie: Une mémoire multidirectionnelle.” tr. Katarina Cavanna. Témoigner: Entre Histoire et Mémoire. Dossier: Charlotte Delbo. 105 (2009): 105-27.] [Polish translation: "Miedzy Auschwitz a Algieria. Pamiec wielokierunkowa i swiadek przeciw-publiczny," tr. Katarzyna Bojarska. Teksty Drugie 4 (2012): 160-85.]
“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. [French translation: “Le témoignage à l’âge de la décolonisation: Chronique d’un été, cinéma-vérité et emergence du survivant de l’Holocauste,” tr. Jean-Louis Jeannelle. Littérature. Special issue: “Et la critique américaine?” 144 (December 2006): 56-80.]
“Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon’s Posthumous Communication.” African American Review 37.4 (2003): 501-16.
“Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Towards an Ethics of the Borderlands.” With Neil Levi. Symploke 11.1-2 (2003): 23-38.
“After the Witness: A Report from the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale.” With Jared Stark. History and Memory 15.1 (Spring/Summer 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): 169-189.
“Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Special Issue: Extremities: Memoirs at the Fin de Siècle. 14.1 (Summer 1999): 93-107. [French translation: “Entre l’extrême et l’ordinaire: le réalisme traumatique chez Ruth Klüger et Charlotte Delbo,” tr. Audrey Évrard, Tangence 83 (hiver 2007): 87-106.]
"After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe," New German Critique 72 (Fall 1997): 45-81. [Hungarian translation: “Adorno utan—kultura a katasztrofa masnapjan.” Enigma 37-38 (2003): 59-88.]
"Documenting Barbarism: Yourcenar's Male Fantasies, Theweleit's Coup," Cultural Critique 29 (Winter 1994-95): 77-105.
"'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production," Contemporary Literature 35.4 (1994): 661-687. [Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 178 (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2004).]
"Small Acts, Global Acts: Paul Gilroy's Transnationalism," Found Object 4 (Fall 1994): 17-26.
"Sites of Memory, Sites of Forgetting: Jewishness and Cultural Studies," Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 111-118.
"Marketing Power: The Seduction of Rhetoric in Molière's Dom Juan," Romanic Review vol. 84.4 (November 1993): 387-404.
"The Prostitution of Paris: Late Capital of the Twentieth Century," Found Object 1 (Fall 1992): 2-22.
"An Emblematic Ideology: Images and Additions in Two Editions of Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans," English Literary Renaissance 22.1 (Winter 1992): 80-94.
"Marxism after Post-Marxism," Socialist Review 92/1 (1992): 113-120.
“Trump and the 'Jewish Question.'” With Neil Levi.Studies in American Jewish Literature39.1(2020): 4-16.
“Of Beneficiaries and Other Implicated Subjects.” Review essay on Bruce Robbins, The Beneficiary. Contemporary Literature 59.4 (Winter 2019): 528-538.
“Memory Studies in a Moment of Danger: Fascism, Post-Fascism and the Contemporary Political Imaginary.” With Neil Levi. Special issue on Transnational Memory Studies, ed. Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney. Memory Studies (2018).
“Multidirectional Memory und Verwobene Geschichte(n): Ein Gedenkaustausch zwischen Iman Attia und Michael Rothberg.” Special issue on Geschichte Schreiben [Writing History], edited by Manuela Bauche and Sharon Dodua Otoo. Neue Rundschau 190.2 (2018): 92-105. English version: “Multidirectional Memory and Verwobene Geschichte(n) [Entangled (Hi)stories]: A Conversation between Iman Attia and Michael Rothberg.” TRANSIT 12.1 (2019). Online.
"For Activist Thought: A Response to Bryan Cheyette." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry 5.1 (2018): 115-122.
"Trauma Theory, Implicated Subjects, and the Question of Israel/Palestine." Profession (2014). Online. [Spanish translation forthcoming in Puentes (Argentina).]
“‘Ensnared in Implication’: Writing, Shame, and Colonialism.” Rev. of Timothy Bewes, The Event of Postcolonial Shame. Contemporary Literature 53.2 (2012): 374-86.
"Progress, Progression, Procession: William Kentridge and the Narratology of Transitional Justice." Narrative 20.1 (January 2012): 1-24.
“From Gaza to Warsaw: Mapping Multidirectional Memory.” Criticism 53.4 (2011): 523-48. [German Translation: "Von Gaza nach Warschau: Die Kartierung des multidirektionalen Gedächtnisses," in "Holocaust"-Fiktion: Kunst jenseits der Authentizität, ed. Iris Roebling-Grau and Dirk Rupnow (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2015), 37-61.] [Hungarian translation: "Gázától Varsóig: A többirányú emlékezer feltérképezése," in Transznacionális politika és a holokauszt emlékezettörénete, ed. Anna Lujza Szász and Máté Zombory (Budapest, 2014), 236-60.] [Spanish translation: “De Gaza a Varsovia: hacia un mapa de la memoria multidireccional,” in Estudios sobre memoria: Perspectivas actuals y nuevos escenarios, ed. Silvana Mandolessi and Maximilano Alonso (Villa María, Chile: Euvim, 2015).] [Swedish translation: “Fran Gaza till Warszawa: Kartläggning av det mangförgrenade minnet,” in Mellan Minne och Glömska: Studier I det Kulturella Minnets Förvandlingar, ed. Johan Redin and Hans Ruin (Göteborg: Daidalos, 2016), 263-289.]
“Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” With Yasemin Yildiz. Parallax. Special Issue: “Transcultural Memory” 17.4 (October-December 2011): 32-48.
“Between Subalternity and Indigeneity: Critical Categories for Postcolonial Studies.” With Jodi A. Byrd. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 13.1 (2011): 1-12.
“Between Memory and Memory: From Lieux de mémoire to Noeuds de mémoire.” Yale French Studies 118-119 (2010): 3-12.
“A Secular Alternative: Primo Levi’s Place in American Holocaust Discourse.” With Jonathan Druker. Shofar 28.1 (2009): 104-26.
“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. Special Issue: “Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas” 24.1 (2009): 13-20.
“Decolonizing Trauma Studies: A Response.” Studies in the Novel. Special Issue: "Postcolonial Trauma Novels" 40.1-2 (Spring-Summer 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. [French translation: “Entre Auschwitz et Algérie: Une mémoire multidirectionnelle.” tr. Katarina Cavanna. Témoigner: Entre Histoire et Mémoire. Dossier: Charlotte Delbo. 105 (2009): 105-27.] [Polish translation: "Miedzy Auschwitz a Algieria. Pamiec wielokierunkowa i swiadek przeciw-publiczny," tr. Katarzyna Bojarska. Teksty Drugie 4 (2012): 160-85.]
“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. [French translation: “Le témoignage à l’âge de la décolonisation: Chronique d’un été, cinéma-vérité et emergence du survivant de l’Holocauste,” tr. Jean-Louis Jeannelle. Littérature. Special issue: “Et la critique américaine?” 144 (December 2006): 56-80.]
“Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon’s Posthumous Communication.” African American Review 37.4 (2003): 501-16.
“Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Towards an Ethics of the Borderlands.” With Neil Levi. Symploke 11.1-2 (2003): 23-38.
“After the Witness: A Report from the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale.” With Jared Stark. History and Memory 15.1 (Spring/Summer 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): 169-189.
“Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Special Issue: Extremities: Memoirs at the Fin de Siècle. 14.1 (Summer 1999): 93-107. [French translation: “Entre l’extrême et l’ordinaire: le réalisme traumatique chez Ruth Klüger et Charlotte Delbo,” tr. Audrey Évrard, Tangence 83 (hiver 2007): 87-106.]
"After Adorno: Culture in the Wake of Catastrophe," New German Critique 72 (Fall 1997): 45-81. [Hungarian translation: “Adorno utan—kultura a katasztrofa masnapjan.” Enigma 37-38 (2003): 59-88.]
"Documenting Barbarism: Yourcenar's Male Fantasies, Theweleit's Coup," Cultural Critique 29 (Winter 1994-95): 77-105.
"'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production," Contemporary Literature 35.4 (1994): 661-687. [Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 178 (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2004).]
"Small Acts, Global Acts: Paul Gilroy's Transnationalism," Found Object 4 (Fall 1994): 17-26.
"Sites of Memory, Sites of Forgetting: Jewishness and Cultural Studies," Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 111-118.
"Marketing Power: The Seduction of Rhetoric in Molière's Dom Juan," Romanic Review vol. 84.4 (November 1993): 387-404.
"The Prostitution of Paris: Late Capital of the Twentieth Century," Found Object 1 (Fall 1992): 2-22.
"An Emblematic Ideology: Images and Additions in Two Editions of Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans," English Literary Renaissance 22.1 (Winter 1992): 80-94.
"Marxism after Post-Marxism," Socialist Review 92/1 (1992): 113-120.
Book Chapters
"Implicated Subjects." With Jennifer Noji. Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism. Ed. Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (New York: Routledge, 2023), 80-85.
“Cultural Memory Studies and the BelovedParadigm: From Rememory to Abolition in the Afterlives of Slavery.” Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo (New York: Oxford UP, 2022).
“Preface: For a Memory Culture Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.” In Valentina Pisanty, The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (New York: CPL Editions, 2021), 9-18.
“Trauma and the Implicated Subject.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. Ed. Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja (New York: Routledge, 2020), 201-210.
“A Memory That Is Not One.” The Holocaust and North Africa: New Research. Ed. Aomar Boum and Sarah A. Stein (Stanford: Stanford UP, forthcoming).
"The Witness as ‘World’-Traveller: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism before Human Rights.” Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture. Ed. Todd Presner, Claudio Fugo, and Wulf Kansteiner (Cambridge: Harvard UP, forthcoming 2015).
“Multidirectional Memory: Rethinking the Politics of the Past.” Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age. Ed. Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan (New York: Berghahn, 2015), 211-29.
“Trauma, Memory, Holocaust.” Memory: A History, ed. Dmitri Nikulin (New York: Oxford UP, 2015), 280-90.
“Power.” The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures. Ed. Laurence Roth and Nadia Valman (New York: Routledge, 2015), 123-38.
“Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany.” Transnational Memory. Ed. Chiara de Cesari and Ann Rigney (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 123-45.
“A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory.” With A. Dirk Moses. The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders. Ed. Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 29-38.
"Beyond Tancred and Clorinda: Trauma Studies for Implicated Subjects." The Future of Trauma Theory. Ed. Gert Buelens, Samuel Durrant, and Robert Eaglestone. New York: Routledge, 2013, xi-xviii.
“Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics, and Historical Responsibility.” Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe. Ed. Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind, and Julie Fedor (New York: Palgrave, 2013), 81-101.
"Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge." Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, edited by Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik (New York: Routledge, 2013), 39-58.
“Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies.” The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Graham Huggan (Oxford University Press, 2013), 359-79.
“Histoire, expérience, témoignage,” tr. David Caron. Les revenants: Charlotte Delbo, la voix d'une communauté à jamais déporté, ed. David Caron and Sharon Marquart (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2011). [Translation of chapter 4 of Traumatic Realism.]
“Fractured Relations: The Multidirectional Holocaust Memory of Caryl Phillips.” After Testimony: The Ethics of Holocaust Narrative. Ed. Jakob Lothe, James Phelan, and Susan Suleiman (Ohio State University Press, 2011).
“Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of André Schwarz-Bart.” After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture. Ed. Robert Ehrenreich and R. Clifton Spargo (New Brunswick and Washington, D.C.: Rutgers UP and US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009).
“Multidirectional Memory and the Universalization of the Holocaust.” Jeffrey Alexander, et al, Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
“An Exemplary Career: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University.” With Peter Garrett. Poetry, Politics, and the Profession: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University, ed. Michael Rothberg and Peter Garrett (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009), 1-10.
“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. [Excerpt to be reprinted in Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. E. Ed. Quentin Miller (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming)].
“17 October 1961: A Site of Holocaust Memory?” Culture et mémoire: Représentations de la mémoire dans les espaces mémoriels, les arts du visuel, la littérature et le théatre. Ed. Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, Marie Liénard-Yeterian, and Cristina Marinas (Palaiseau: Editions de l’Ecole Polytechnique, 2008), 33-42.
“Der Holocaust, Kolonialphantasien und der Israel-Palästina Konflikt: Multi-Direktionale Erinnerung.” Zwischen Antisemitismus und Islamophobie: Vorurteile und Projektionen in Europa und Nahost. Ed. John Bunzl und Alexandra Senfft (Hamburg: VSA, 2008), 177-94.
“La réception de Primo Levi aux Etats-Unis.” With Jonathan Druker. Tr. Isabelle Cluzel. Primo Levi à l’oeuvre: La reception de l’oeuvre Primo Levi dans le monde, ed. Yannis Thanassekos and Philippe Mesnard (Paris: Editions KIMÉ, 2008), 197-212.
“Roth and the Holocaust.” The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth. Ed. Timothy Parrish. (New York: Cambridge UP, 2007), 52-67.
“Construction Work: Theory, Migration, and Labor in an Age of Globalization.” On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Ed. Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan (Albany, NY: SUNY P, 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.
"Le Coup de grâce as Male Fantasy: On the Sexual Politics of Fascism." Subversive Subjects: Rereading Marguerite Yourcenar. Ed. Judith Sarnecki (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004). [revised version of Cultural Critique article]
“Theory and the Holocaust.” With Neil Levi. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Ed. N. Levi and M. Rothberg (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP and New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003), 1-22.
“’There Is No Poetry In This’: Writing, Trauma, and Home.” Trauma at Home: After 9/11. Ed. Judith Greenberg (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003), 147-57.
"'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production." Considering Maus. Ed. Deborah Geis (Tuscaloosa and London: U of Alabama P, 2003), 137-58. [reprint of Contemporary Literature article]
“Geoffrey Hartman.” Holocaust Literature. Ed. Lilian Kremer (New York: Routledge, 2002), 520-23.
“Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism.” Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. Ed. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002), 55-70. [reprint of a/b article]
“The Year of the Holocaust: Memory, Genocide, and Jewish-American Identity.” Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millenium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 19-24 1996 [CDROM], Editors: Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor (Utrecht: ISSEI/University of Humanist Studies, 1998).
"Maurice Blanchot's War: A/Wake 'After Auschwitz,'" Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference in French and Comparative Literature, March 4-5, 1994 (New York: Columbia UP, 1994) 6-12.
“Cultural Memory Studies and the BelovedParadigm: From Rememory to Abolition in the Afterlives of Slavery.” Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo (New York: Oxford UP, 2022).
“Preface: For a Memory Culture Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.” In Valentina Pisanty, The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (New York: CPL Editions, 2021), 9-18.
“Trauma and the Implicated Subject.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. Ed. Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja (New York: Routledge, 2020), 201-210.
“A Memory That Is Not One.” The Holocaust and North Africa: New Research. Ed. Aomar Boum and Sarah A. Stein (Stanford: Stanford UP, forthcoming).
"The Witness as ‘World’-Traveller: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism before Human Rights.” Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture. Ed. Todd Presner, Claudio Fugo, and Wulf Kansteiner (Cambridge: Harvard UP, forthcoming 2015).
“Multidirectional Memory: Rethinking the Politics of the Past.” Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age. Ed. Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan (New York: Berghahn, 2015), 211-29.
“Trauma, Memory, Holocaust.” Memory: A History, ed. Dmitri Nikulin (New York: Oxford UP, 2015), 280-90.
“Power.” The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures. Ed. Laurence Roth and Nadia Valman (New York: Routledge, 2015), 123-38.
“Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany.” Transnational Memory. Ed. Chiara de Cesari and Ann Rigney (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 123-45.
“A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory.” With A. Dirk Moses. The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders. Ed. Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 29-38.
"Beyond Tancred and Clorinda: Trauma Studies for Implicated Subjects." The Future of Trauma Theory. Ed. Gert Buelens, Samuel Durrant, and Robert Eaglestone. New York: Routledge, 2013, xi-xviii.
“Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics, and Historical Responsibility.” Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe. Ed. Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind, and Julie Fedor (New York: Palgrave, 2013), 81-101.
"Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge." Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, edited by Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik (New York: Routledge, 2013), 39-58.
“Remembering Back: Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies, and Postcolonial Studies.” The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Graham Huggan (Oxford University Press, 2013), 359-79.
“Histoire, expérience, témoignage,” tr. David Caron. Les revenants: Charlotte Delbo, la voix d'une communauté à jamais déporté, ed. David Caron and Sharon Marquart (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2011). [Translation of chapter 4 of Traumatic Realism.]
“Fractured Relations: The Multidirectional Holocaust Memory of Caryl Phillips.” After Testimony: The Ethics of Holocaust Narrative. Ed. Jakob Lothe, James Phelan, and Susan Suleiman (Ohio State University Press, 2011).
“Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of André Schwarz-Bart.” After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture. Ed. Robert Ehrenreich and R. Clifton Spargo (New Brunswick and Washington, D.C.: Rutgers UP and US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009).
“Multidirectional Memory and the Universalization of the Holocaust.” Jeffrey Alexander, et al, Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
“An Exemplary Career: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University.” With Peter Garrett. Poetry, Politics, and the Profession: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University, ed. Michael Rothberg and Peter Garrett (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009), 1-10.
“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. [Excerpt to be reprinted in Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. E. Ed. Quentin Miller (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming)].
“17 October 1961: A Site of Holocaust Memory?” Culture et mémoire: Représentations de la mémoire dans les espaces mémoriels, les arts du visuel, la littérature et le théatre. Ed. Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, Marie Liénard-Yeterian, and Cristina Marinas (Palaiseau: Editions de l’Ecole Polytechnique, 2008), 33-42.
“Der Holocaust, Kolonialphantasien und der Israel-Palästina Konflikt: Multi-Direktionale Erinnerung.” Zwischen Antisemitismus und Islamophobie: Vorurteile und Projektionen in Europa und Nahost. Ed. John Bunzl und Alexandra Senfft (Hamburg: VSA, 2008), 177-94.
“La réception de Primo Levi aux Etats-Unis.” With Jonathan Druker. Tr. Isabelle Cluzel. Primo Levi à l’oeuvre: La reception de l’oeuvre Primo Levi dans le monde, ed. Yannis Thanassekos and Philippe Mesnard (Paris: Editions KIMÉ, 2008), 197-212.
“Roth and the Holocaust.” The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth. Ed. Timothy Parrish. (New York: Cambridge UP, 2007), 52-67.
“Construction Work: Theory, Migration, and Labor in an Age of Globalization.” On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Ed. Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan (Albany, NY: SUNY P, 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.
"Le Coup de grâce as Male Fantasy: On the Sexual Politics of Fascism." Subversive Subjects: Rereading Marguerite Yourcenar. Ed. Judith Sarnecki (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004). [revised version of Cultural Critique article]
“Theory and the Holocaust.” With Neil Levi. The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. Ed. N. Levi and M. Rothberg (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP and New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003), 1-22.
“’There Is No Poetry In This’: Writing, Trauma, and Home.” Trauma at Home: After 9/11. Ed. Judith Greenberg (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003), 147-57.
"'We Were Talking Jewish': Art Spiegelman's Maus as 'Holocaust' Production." Considering Maus. Ed. Deborah Geis (Tuscaloosa and London: U of Alabama P, 2003), 137-58. [reprint of Contemporary Literature article]
“Geoffrey Hartman.” Holocaust Literature. Ed. Lilian Kremer (New York: Routledge, 2002), 520-23.
“Between the Extreme and the Everyday: Ruth Klüger’s Traumatic Realism.” Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. Ed. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002), 55-70. [reprint of a/b article]
“The Year of the Holocaust: Memory, Genocide, and Jewish-American Identity.” Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millenium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 19-24 1996 [CDROM], Editors: Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor (Utrecht: ISSEI/University of Humanist Studies, 1998).
"Maurice Blanchot's War: A/Wake 'After Auschwitz,'" Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference in French and Comparative Literature, March 4-5, 1994 (New York: Columbia UP, 1994) 6-12.
Short Reviews and Essays
"Holocaust Remembrance and the Ethics of Comparison." Massachusetts Review blog. January 26, 2024.
“Learning and Unlearning with Taring Padi: Reflections on Documenta.” New Fascism Syllabus Blog. July 2, 2022.
"Wissenschaftler müssen vergleichen." Berliner Zeitung. February 8, 2022, p. 14.
"On the Possibilities and Pitfalls of German Holocaust Memory Today." AICGS Blog. January 27, 2022.
“We Need to Re-Center the New Historikerstreit.” ZEIT Online. [And in German as: “Der neuer Historikerstreit bedarf einer anderen Richtung,” tr. Michael Adrian.] July 24, 2021.
“Literature Doesn’t Stop at the Unspeakable.” Review of Ghislaine Dunant, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed. Massachusetts Review Online. July 22, 2021. https://www.massreview.org/node/9864
"'People with a Nazi Background': Race, Memory, and Responsibility." Los Angeles Review of Books. May 20, 2021.
“Menschen mit Nazihintergrund” [People with a Nazi Background], tr. Hanno Hauenstein. Berliner Zeitung, April 11, 2021, p. 15.
"Enttabuisiert den Vergleich!" With Jürgen Zimmerer. Die Zeit. March 31, 2021.
"Dialog statt Opferkonkurrenz." [Dialogue instead of a Competition of Victims] Berliner Zeitung. February 22, 2021.
“Comparing Comparisons: From the Historikerstreitto the Mbembe Affair.” [Published simultaneously in German translation as “Vergleiche vergleichen. Vom Historikerstreit zur Causa Mbembe.”] Geschichte der Gegenwart. September 23, 2020.
"The Specters of Comparison." [On the "Mbembe affair."] Latitude, Goethe Institute Blog, May 15, 2020.
"Implicated Subjects, Reparations, and the Afterlives of Slavery." Stanford UP Blog, July 25, 2019.
“The Dynamics of Multidirectional Memory: A Response to Anne Roche and Philippe Mesnard.” Mémoires en jeu 8 (Winter 2018/19): 51-53.
“One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press,” The Nation, May 6, 2019.
“Save Stanford’s World-Class Press.” Stanford Daily, April 30, 2019.
Short Response in Forum on "What is the Future of Psychoanalysis in the Academy?" Psychoanalysis and History20.1 (2018): 23-35.
"Memory and Implication at the Limits of the Human: A Response to Nathan Snaza," Special Issue on Memory after Humanism, Parallax 23.4 (2017): 512-16.
"Notes on Historical Comparison in the Age of Trump (and Erdoğan)," Massachusetts Review blog (February 2, 2017).
"Stumbling Over a Violent Past" [on Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me], Public Books blog (June 16, 2016).
"The Salaita Case, One Year Later," Inside Higher Ed (July 31, 2015): available here.
"Remembering Ronahî, Remembering Internationalism," Transnational Memories: Sites, Knots, Methods, a blog forum on Days and Memory (March 2015).
“Multidirectional Memory,” Getuigen: Tussen Geschiedenis en Herinnering (Testimony Between History and Memory) 119 (December 2014): 175-76.
“Locating Transnational Memory,” Transnational Memory in the Hispanic World, ed. Nadia Lie and Kirsten Mahlke, special issue of European Review 22.4 (2014), 652-56.
“William Kentridge: An Implicated Subject.” AJS Perspectives (2013).
“Working Through the Past in a Multicultural Society,” Germany after 1945: A Society Confronts Antisemitism, Racism, and Neo-Nazism (Berlin: Amadeu Antonio Foundation, 2013), 12-14. [Download the exhibition catalogue here.]
"Neo-Nazi Terror and Germany's Racism Problem." openDemocracy. Dec. 16, 2011.
“Introduction: Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory.” With Stef Craps. Criticism. Special Issue: “Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory” 53.4 (2011): 517-21.
“Preface: States of Welfare.” With Lauren M.E. Goodlad. Occasion (2011). Online.
“Quantifying Culture? A Response to Eric Slauter.” American Literary History 22.2 (2010): 341-6. Published simultaneously in Early American Literature 45.2 (2010): 319-24.
"A Failure of the Imagination: Diagnosing the Post-9/11 Novel: A Response to Richard Gray.” American Literary History 21.1 (2009): 152-8.
“The Spectre of the ‘Second Holocaust.’” openDemocracy. Oct. 31, 2008.
“Against Zero-Sum Logic: A Response to Walter Benn Michaels.” American Literary History 18.2 (2006): 303-11.
“Prince Harry, Alberto Gonzalez, and Holocaust Memory: A View from the US.” openDemocracy Readers’ Forum. Online. Posted: Feb. 7, 2005.
Rev. of Susan Gubar, Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. Biography (Summer 2004).
Rev. of Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: Memories of a Holocaust Girlhood. The Catholic Worker (June-July 2002): 7.
Rev. of Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Criticism 43.4 (2001): 478-84.
Conference Rev. of “Marxism 2000: The Party’s Not Over.” Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books (2001, Issue 1). Online. Available FTP: http://laurel.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?Key=84.
Rev. of Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory After Auschwitz. Modern Language Quarterly 60.2 (June 1999): 277-82.
"Respect political enemies." [Editorial on Rabin assassination.] The Miami Herald 9 Nov. 1995: 27A.
"The Politics of Peace in the Middle East," edited, with introduction, a special section of Found Object 3 (Spring 1994): 64-90.
"Possible Selves, Realizable Futures." Review of Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. Christianity and Crisis (18 Nov. 1991).
"Life As We Almost Know It." Review of Don DeLillo, Mao II. Christianity and Crisis (7 Oct. 1991).
"Faces of Populist Fascism." Review of Blood in the Face, dir. James Ridgeway. Christianity and Crisis (13 May 1991).
Rev. of Marc Ellis, Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Confronting the Holocaust and Israeli Power. The Catholic Worker (Jan.-Feb. 1991).
"Tompkins Square: The Politics of Space." Christianity and Crisis (6 Nov. 1989).
Other Media
"Multidirectional Memory--Discussion with Michael Rothberg and Mark Terkessidis." Latitude on Air--Unsettling Power Relations, Goethe Institute, June 6, 2020.
Radio interview, “Literature after 9/11,” WGLT, Normal, IL, 29 September 2006.
Radio interview, “Literature by Child Survivors of the Holocaust,” What’s the Word?, MLA, 2004.
Interviews
"We Need an Ethics of Comparison: Interview with Michael Rothberg." Medico International, February 15, 2024.
"A New German Historians' Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg," by Jonathon Catlin. JHI Blog, February 2 & 4, 2022.
"Navigating Implication: Interview with Michael Rothberg by Susanne Knittel and Sofia Forchieri." Journal of Perpetrator Studies 3.1 (2020): 6-19.
"Exploring Victimhood: Interview with Michael Rothberg by Ankur Datta." Seminar 727 (March 2020).
“Understanding Mnemonic Complexity: Interview with Michael Rothberg by Serguey Ehrlich.” Historical Expertise(2019). In English and Russian.
“Holocaust Memory and the Migrant ‘Double Bind’ in Contemporary Germany: An Interview with Michael Rothberg by Christopher Levesque," University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Blog (June 28, 2018).
“From the Traumatic Realism to the Multidirectional Memory, and Beyond: Interview of Michael Rothberg by Philippe Mesnard,” Mémoires en jeu 5 (December 2017): 25-31.
"Ajalooliste võrdluste eetika." Michael Rothberg interviewed by Eneken Laanes, Sirp, 17 March 2007: 29-30 [in Estonian]. English version: "Ethics of Historical Comparison," available on the Narrative and Memory webpage.
“NS-Gedenken im Zeitalter der Migration.” Michael Rothberg interviewed by Lukas Wieselberg, ORF.at, 23 September 2016.
“L’Holocaust et l’imagination comparative.” Michael Rothberg interviewed by Fransiska Louwagie and Pieter Vermeulen. Témoigner: Entre Histoire et Mémoire 106 (January-March 2010): 151-67. [English version: "The Holocaust and the Comparative Imagination"]
"Zuckerman Unsound?: A Roundtable Discussion on Philip Roth's Exit Ghost," ed., Derek Parker Royal, Philip Roth Studies 5.1 (2009): 7-34. Print. (A transcript of the roundtable discussion held at the 2008 American Literature Association Conference with participants Alan Cooper, Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr., Michael Rothberg, Derek Parker Royal, Debra Shostak, and Ruth Knafo Setton.)
"Political Subjects: Nationalism, Insurrection, Democracy: An Interview with Etienne Balibar," with A. Lao and B. Martinsons, Found Object 6 (Fall 1995): 15-32.
"'To Speak about Hitchcock was a Political Act': An Interview with Slavoj Zizek," with A. Long and T. McGann, Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 93-110.
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Here are documents related to the cancellation of the symposium "We Still Need to Talk: Towards a Relational Culture of Remembrance," which had been slated to occur December 8-10, 2023 in Berlin.
Here is a November 27, 2023 statement in solidarity with Candice Breitz, after the cancelation of her exhibit at the Saarland Museum.
Here is my August 17, 2014 letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise about the Steven Salaita case (written before a meeting scheduled between the Chancellor and several concerned faculty members).
Here is my August 6, 2014 letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise about the Steven Salaita case.
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“Learning and Unlearning with Taring Padi: Reflections on Documenta.” New Fascism Syllabus Blog. July 2, 2022.
"Wissenschaftler müssen vergleichen." Berliner Zeitung. February 8, 2022, p. 14.
"On the Possibilities and Pitfalls of German Holocaust Memory Today." AICGS Blog. January 27, 2022.
“We Need to Re-Center the New Historikerstreit.” ZEIT Online. [And in German as: “Der neuer Historikerstreit bedarf einer anderen Richtung,” tr. Michael Adrian.] July 24, 2021.
“Literature Doesn’t Stop at the Unspeakable.” Review of Ghislaine Dunant, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed. Massachusetts Review Online. July 22, 2021. https://www.massreview.org/node/9864
"'People with a Nazi Background': Race, Memory, and Responsibility." Los Angeles Review of Books. May 20, 2021.
“Menschen mit Nazihintergrund” [People with a Nazi Background], tr. Hanno Hauenstein. Berliner Zeitung, April 11, 2021, p. 15.
"Enttabuisiert den Vergleich!" With Jürgen Zimmerer. Die Zeit. March 31, 2021.
"Dialog statt Opferkonkurrenz." [Dialogue instead of a Competition of Victims] Berliner Zeitung. February 22, 2021.
“Comparing Comparisons: From the Historikerstreitto the Mbembe Affair.” [Published simultaneously in German translation as “Vergleiche vergleichen. Vom Historikerstreit zur Causa Mbembe.”] Geschichte der Gegenwart. September 23, 2020.
"The Specters of Comparison." [On the "Mbembe affair."] Latitude, Goethe Institute Blog, May 15, 2020.
"Implicated Subjects, Reparations, and the Afterlives of Slavery." Stanford UP Blog, July 25, 2019.
“The Dynamics of Multidirectional Memory: A Response to Anne Roche and Philippe Mesnard.” Mémoires en jeu 8 (Winter 2018/19): 51-53.
“One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press,” The Nation, May 6, 2019.
“Save Stanford’s World-Class Press.” Stanford Daily, April 30, 2019.
Short Response in Forum on "What is the Future of Psychoanalysis in the Academy?" Psychoanalysis and History20.1 (2018): 23-35.
"Memory and Implication at the Limits of the Human: A Response to Nathan Snaza," Special Issue on Memory after Humanism, Parallax 23.4 (2017): 512-16.
"Notes on Historical Comparison in the Age of Trump (and Erdoğan)," Massachusetts Review blog (February 2, 2017).
"Stumbling Over a Violent Past" [on Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me], Public Books blog (June 16, 2016).
"The Salaita Case, One Year Later," Inside Higher Ed (July 31, 2015): available here.
"Remembering Ronahî, Remembering Internationalism," Transnational Memories: Sites, Knots, Methods, a blog forum on Days and Memory (March 2015).
“Multidirectional Memory,” Getuigen: Tussen Geschiedenis en Herinnering (Testimony Between History and Memory) 119 (December 2014): 175-76.
“Locating Transnational Memory,” Transnational Memory in the Hispanic World, ed. Nadia Lie and Kirsten Mahlke, special issue of European Review 22.4 (2014), 652-56.
“William Kentridge: An Implicated Subject.” AJS Perspectives (2013).
“Working Through the Past in a Multicultural Society,” Germany after 1945: A Society Confronts Antisemitism, Racism, and Neo-Nazism (Berlin: Amadeu Antonio Foundation, 2013), 12-14. [Download the exhibition catalogue here.]
"Neo-Nazi Terror and Germany's Racism Problem." openDemocracy. Dec. 16, 2011.
“Introduction: Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory.” With Stef Craps. Criticism. Special Issue: “Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory” 53.4 (2011): 517-21.
“Preface: States of Welfare.” With Lauren M.E. Goodlad. Occasion (2011). Online.
“Quantifying Culture? A Response to Eric Slauter.” American Literary History 22.2 (2010): 341-6. Published simultaneously in Early American Literature 45.2 (2010): 319-24.
"A Failure of the Imagination: Diagnosing the Post-9/11 Novel: A Response to Richard Gray.” American Literary History 21.1 (2009): 152-8.
“The Spectre of the ‘Second Holocaust.’” openDemocracy. Oct. 31, 2008.
“Against Zero-Sum Logic: A Response to Walter Benn Michaels.” American Literary History 18.2 (2006): 303-11.
“Prince Harry, Alberto Gonzalez, and Holocaust Memory: A View from the US.” openDemocracy Readers’ Forum. Online. Posted: Feb. 7, 2005.
Rev. of Susan Gubar, Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. Biography (Summer 2004).
Rev. of Ruth Kluger, Still Alive: Memories of a Holocaust Girlhood. The Catholic Worker (June-July 2002): 7.
Rev. of Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Criticism 43.4 (2001): 478-84.
Conference Rev. of “Marxism 2000: The Party’s Not Over.” Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books (2001, Issue 1). Online. Available FTP: http://laurel.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?Key=84.
Rev. of Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory After Auschwitz. Modern Language Quarterly 60.2 (June 1999): 277-82.
"Respect political enemies." [Editorial on Rabin assassination.] The Miami Herald 9 Nov. 1995: 27A.
"The Politics of Peace in the Middle East," edited, with introduction, a special section of Found Object 3 (Spring 1994): 64-90.
"Possible Selves, Realizable Futures." Review of Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. Christianity and Crisis (18 Nov. 1991).
"Life As We Almost Know It." Review of Don DeLillo, Mao II. Christianity and Crisis (7 Oct. 1991).
"Faces of Populist Fascism." Review of Blood in the Face, dir. James Ridgeway. Christianity and Crisis (13 May 1991).
Rev. of Marc Ellis, Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Confronting the Holocaust and Israeli Power. The Catholic Worker (Jan.-Feb. 1991).
"Tompkins Square: The Politics of Space." Christianity and Crisis (6 Nov. 1989).
Other Media
"Multidirectional Memory--Discussion with Michael Rothberg and Mark Terkessidis." Latitude on Air--Unsettling Power Relations, Goethe Institute, June 6, 2020.
Radio interview, “Literature after 9/11,” WGLT, Normal, IL, 29 September 2006.
Radio interview, “Literature by Child Survivors of the Holocaust,” What’s the Word?, MLA, 2004.
Interviews
"We Need an Ethics of Comparison: Interview with Michael Rothberg." Medico International, February 15, 2024.
"A New German Historians' Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg," by Jonathon Catlin. JHI Blog, February 2 & 4, 2022.
"Navigating Implication: Interview with Michael Rothberg by Susanne Knittel and Sofia Forchieri." Journal of Perpetrator Studies 3.1 (2020): 6-19.
"Exploring Victimhood: Interview with Michael Rothberg by Ankur Datta." Seminar 727 (March 2020).
“Understanding Mnemonic Complexity: Interview with Michael Rothberg by Serguey Ehrlich.” Historical Expertise(2019). In English and Russian.
“Holocaust Memory and the Migrant ‘Double Bind’ in Contemporary Germany: An Interview with Michael Rothberg by Christopher Levesque," University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Blog (June 28, 2018).
“From the Traumatic Realism to the Multidirectional Memory, and Beyond: Interview of Michael Rothberg by Philippe Mesnard,” Mémoires en jeu 5 (December 2017): 25-31.
"Ajalooliste võrdluste eetika." Michael Rothberg interviewed by Eneken Laanes, Sirp, 17 March 2007: 29-30 [in Estonian]. English version: "Ethics of Historical Comparison," available on the Narrative and Memory webpage.
“NS-Gedenken im Zeitalter der Migration.” Michael Rothberg interviewed by Lukas Wieselberg, ORF.at, 23 September 2016.
“L’Holocaust et l’imagination comparative.” Michael Rothberg interviewed by Fransiska Louwagie and Pieter Vermeulen. Témoigner: Entre Histoire et Mémoire 106 (January-March 2010): 151-67. [English version: "The Holocaust and the Comparative Imagination"]
"Zuckerman Unsound?: A Roundtable Discussion on Philip Roth's Exit Ghost," ed., Derek Parker Royal, Philip Roth Studies 5.1 (2009): 7-34. Print. (A transcript of the roundtable discussion held at the 2008 American Literature Association Conference with participants Alan Cooper, Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr., Michael Rothberg, Derek Parker Royal, Debra Shostak, and Ruth Knafo Setton.)
"Political Subjects: Nationalism, Insurrection, Democracy: An Interview with Etienne Balibar," with A. Lao and B. Martinsons, Found Object 6 (Fall 1995): 15-32.
"'To Speak about Hitchcock was a Political Act': An Interview with Slavoj Zizek," with A. Long and T. McGann, Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 93-110.
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Here are documents related to the cancellation of the symposium "We Still Need to Talk: Towards a Relational Culture of Remembrance," which had been slated to occur December 8-10, 2023 in Berlin.
Here is a November 27, 2023 statement in solidarity with Candice Breitz, after the cancelation of her exhibit at the Saarland Museum.
Here is my August 17, 2014 letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise about the Steven Salaita case (written before a meeting scheduled between the Chancellor and several concerned faculty members).
Here is my August 6, 2014 letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise about the Steven Salaita case.
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