Victoria Aarons
Professor
English
Trinity University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Aarons done Ph.D. in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley. M.A. in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley. B.A. in English, University of California, Berkeley.She holds the O.R. & Eva Mitchell Endowed Chair in Literature at Trinity University, where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures. Among other titles, Victoria Aarons is the author of A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction and What Happened to Abraham?: Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction, both of which received a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book. Her work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, essay collections, and reference works, including the two-volume compendium Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work. Dr. Aarons is guest editor for a special issue of Philip Roth Studies titled Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud: Texts of a Relationship. She is on the editorial board of several scholarly journals and was an invited scholar at the Conference in Honor of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel's 80th Birthday, hosted by Boston University's Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, where she spoke on "Bearing the Weight of History: Trauma and Narrative Fragmentation."
Research Interest
American Jewish, Holocaust literatures
Publications
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“Memory’s Afterimage: Post-Holocaust Writing and the Third Generation.†Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction. Ed. Victoria Aarons. Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield, 2016. 17-38.
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“Not Getting It: The Allure of the Counterlife in Early and Late Roth.†Forthcoming in Philip Roth Studies 13.1 (Spring ) 2017.
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“Jewish American Literary Forms: 1914 to the Present.†Forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to American Literature. Eds. Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto. Wiley Blackwell Pub., 2017.
