• Victoria Aarons holds the position of O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature. In addition to over 100 scholarly articles, she is the author or editor of 14 books, including her most recent edited collection The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives (2025) and the monograph Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives (2023). She is on the editorial board of Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Women in Judaism, and she is series editor for Bloomsbury/Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature.

    • Ph.D., The University of California, Berkeley
    • M.A., The University of California, Berkeley
    • B.A., The University of California, Berkeley

    • Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time. Co-edited with Holli Levitsky and Hilene Flanzbaum. Academic Studies Press, 2025.
    • The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives. Wayne State University Press, 2025. Jewish Women's Archive, Summer Book Club Picks, 2025.“Divided Selves in Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories.” Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth, eds. Aimee Pozorski and Maren Scheurer. Bloomsbury, 2024.
    • “Landscapes of Memory: Visualizing Holocaust Testimony in But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Special Issue, “Visualizing ‘The Jewish Question’1933-Present:
      Anti-Nazi Resistance, the Holocaust, Collaboration, Ambivalence.” Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal 11.1 (Spring 2023).
    • “Introduction: Post-Holocaust Culture and Jewish Identity.” Special issue (with Phyllis Lassner). The Journal of Jewish Identities 16.1&2 (January/July 2023).
    • “Reflections on Reading Roth” (co-authored with Debra Shostak). Philip Roth Studies 19.1 (2023).
    • “Third-Generation Holocaust Inheritance in Two Graphic Narratives: A Layering of Histories and Legacies.” Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature, eds. Alan L. Berger and Lucas F. W. Wilson. Lexington Press, 2023.
    • The Book of Sarah: Writing through the Past.” Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders. Eds. Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman. Syracuse University Press, 2023.
    • Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives (Wayne State UP, 2023)
    • Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (Rutgers University Press, 2020)
    • Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Phyllis Lassner (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
    • "'Master Race': Graphic Storytelling in the Aftermath of the Holocaust." Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture. Eds. Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
    • "The Late Novellas." Roth in Context. Ed. Magdalen McKinley. Forthcoming, (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
    • "The Book of Sarah: Writing through the Past." Jewish Women's Comics: Borders and Bodies. Eds. Sarah Lightman, Heike Bauer, and Andrea Greenbaum. Forthcoming, (Syracuse University Press, 2019)
    • “Found Objects: The Legacy of Third-Generation Holocaust Memory.” Translated Memories. Eds. Bettina Hofmann and Ursula Reuter. Forthcoming, (Lexington Press, 2019)
    • “Teaching Holocaust Literature and Poetry.” Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust. Eds. Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt.  Forthcoming, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
    • “Reading Roth/Reading Ourselves: Looking Back.” Forthcoming, Special Memorial Issue. Philip Roth Studies 15.1 (2019)
    • "The New Jewish American Literary Studies." (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
    • “Jewish American Literary Forms: 1914 to the Present.” Forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to American Literature, Vol. 3. Eds. Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)
    • “A New Diaspora: Jewish American Writers from Across the Globe.” Forthcoming in The New Jewish-American Literary Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
    • “Introduction: Toward a New Jewish American Literary Studies.” Forthcoming in The New Jewish-American Literary Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
    • “Imagined Holocaust Histories: Joe Kupert’s Graphic Novel of the Warsaw
    • Ghetto Uprising.” Forthcoming in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures: Approaches to Teaching (State University of New York Press, 2019)
    • “American Jewish Writing in the Twenty-First Century: New Global Directions.” Literature and Belief 38.1 (Summer 2018): 59-77.
    • "Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory." Co-authored with Alan L. Berger (Northwestern University Press, 2017)
    • "The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow." (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
    • “Not Getting It: The Allure of the Counterlife in Early and Late Roth.” Philip Roth Studies 13.1 (Spring 2017): 29-44.
    • "Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction." (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Paperback, 2018)

     

    Books

    A collage of 12 book covers by Victoria Aarons, showcasing works on Holocaust literature, Jewish American fiction, and graphic narratives. Titles include: Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute, Third-Generation Holocaust Representation, Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives, The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow, A Measure of Memory, The New Diaspora, Holocaust Graphic Narratives, The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, Memory Spaces, The Story's Not Over, Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time, and What Happened to Abraham?.

     

    Clockwise from top left: Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute  (Wayne State UP, 2016); Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory, co-authored with Alan L. Berger (Northwestern UP, 2017); Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction (Lexington Books, 2016); The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow (Cambridge UP, 2017); Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, co-edited with Phyllis Lassner (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020); Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory (Rutgers UP, 2019); The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (Wayne State UP, 2015); A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction (The University of Georgia Press, 1996); Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives (Wayne State UP, 2023); The Story’s Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024); Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time (Academic Studies Press, 2025); What Happened to Abraham? (2005)

    • American Jewish Literature
    • Holocaust Studies
    • Graphic Novels

    • American Jewish & Holocaust Studies
    • Comics and Graphic Novels
    • the American Short Story

    • Piper Professor Award for Outstanding Scholarly and Academic Achievement
    • Z. T. Scott Faculty Fellowship for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching and Advising
    • Recipient of the 2024 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, Visual for Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives

    • Holocaust Education Committee, Jewish Federation of San Antonio
    • Holocaust Memorial Museum of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio Commission