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
- 2013 - 2016 Head of the Department 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