James E. Young
James E. Young is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also founded the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. His teaching and research areas include narrative theory, cultural memory studies, Holocaust studies, and visual culture.
Young has authored several books, including Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (1988), The Texture of Memory (1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award, At Memory鈥檚 Edge (2000), and The Stages of Memory (2016). He served on the design juries for both Berlin鈥檚 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City. His contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, an American Philosophical Society Grant, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, among others.
Young earned his M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has held academic positions at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, and served as a visiting professor at institutions such as Harvard and Princeton.