Travels in Time: Essays on Collective Memory in Motion

Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She specializes in memory studies, literary and media history, narrative theory, and transcultural studies. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for international and interdisciplinary research on collective memory. She is author of Memory in Culture (2011), an introduction to memory studies, and co-editor of the Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (2010). Together with Jeffrey K. Olick, she edits the Oxford series Studies in Collective Memory.