Contact
Email:
jenny.wustenberg@ntu.ac.uk
Website:
https://jennywustenberg.com/
Jenny Wüstenberg is professor of history and memory studies and the director of the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory at Nottingham Trent University. She is the co-founder and past co-president of the Memory Studies Association, as well as chair of the COST Action on “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices in Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change” (2021–25). She is the author of Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (with Aline Sierp, Berghahn Books, 2020), The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (with Yifat Gutman, 2023), and De-Commemoration: Making Sense of Contemporary Calls to Remove Statues and Rename Places (with Sarah Gensburger, in English with Berghahn Books and in French with Editions Fayard in 2023). Her research interests concern the contentious politics of memory, memory and democracy, slow-moving change such as biodiversity loss, and the memory of family separation policies.
Project: Remembering Extinct Species—Fast Memory for Slow Change?
Publications:
- Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; German translation: Zivilgesellschaft und Erinnerungspolitik in Deutschland seit 1945. Berlin: LIT Verlag/Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2020.
- “Towards a Slow Memory Studies.” In Bloomsbury Handbook to New Approaches in Cultural Memory Studies. Edited by Brett A. Kaplan. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
- with Yifat Gutman, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism. New York: Routledge, 2023.
- with Sarah Gensburger, eds. De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places. English edition: Berghahn Books; French edition: Editions Fayard, 2023.
- “Children in Public Memory,” introduction to special issue of Jeunesse 13, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 3–9. https://doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.13.2.3.
- with Aline Sierp, eds. Agency in Transnational Memory Politics. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.