James E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies, and Chair, Judaic Studies Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Young was Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew/Judaic Studies at New York University from 1980 to 1984 and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He published Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust in 1988 and his book The Texture of Memory (1993) won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994. He is presently at work on two new books, After-image: The Uncanny Arts of Holocaust Memory and A Vicarious Past: My Received History of the Holocaust.
