Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her books include Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death and But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives. She is co-editor of the volumes Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community, as well as Rites of Return and Picturing Atrocity: Reading Photographs in Crisis. Her most recent book is a family memoir, What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past (University of Nebraska Press, 2011).
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