James Young

James E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught since 1988, and currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.  Professor Young is a leading scholar of monuments and memorials, and is the author of At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2000), The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press, 1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994, and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 1988), which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1988.  In addition to his writing and teachimg, Professor Young was a member on Germany’s Findungskommission for the national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews” and consulted with Argentina’s government on its memorial to the desaparacidos.  Most recently, he was appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition, now under construction.