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Professor Victoria Aarons

Victoria Aarons holds the position of O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature in the English Department at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she teaches courses on American Jewish and Holocaust literatures. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author or editor of 12 books, including A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction and What Happened to Abraham: Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction, both recipients of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title; The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction; The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow; Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (co-authored with Alan L. Berger); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction; The New Jewish American Literary Studies; Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory; The Palgrave Handbook on Holocaust Literature and Culture (co-edited with Phyllis Lassner), and, most recently, Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives (Wayne State UP, 2023). Aarons serves as judge for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, a literary prize given each year to a rising American Jewish writer of fiction. She is on the editorial board of Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Partial Answers, and Women in Judaism, and she is series editor for Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature. She serves on the San Antonio Holocaust Memorial Museum Commission and the Holocaust Education Committee of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio. She is currently editing a book on Jewish women’s graphic novels and memoirs.