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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Traveling in Time Part I: Traveling and Transcultural MemoryChapter 1: Traveling MemoryChapter 2: Traveling Memory in European Film Chapter 3: Homer-A Relational MnemohistoryChapter 4: Memory Worlds in Times of Corona Part II: Memory in Families and GenerationsChapter 5: Locating Family in Memory Studies Chapter 6: Generation in Literary History: Genealogy, Generationality, Memory Chapter 7: Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Philipps's In the Falling Snow (2009) Part III: Memory and MediationChapter 8: Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory Chapter 9: Remediation across Time, Space, and Cultures: The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 Chapter 10: Plurimediality and Traveling Schemata: "District Six" Chapter 11: The Ethics of Premediation in James Joyce's Ulysses Part IV: Dialogues with PsychologyChapter 12: The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory Chapter 13: Ecologies of TraumaChapter 14: Flashbulb Memories: An Interdisciplinary Research Program (with William Hirst) Afterword: Traveling OnBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Many of the essays in this collection are already classics. By bringing them together into a collection, while also updating them, Astrid Erll has provided a magisterial overview of the current field of memory studies that is set to become a standard work. Written in a lively and accessible way, it offers a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on collective memory which brilliantly integrates psychology, culture, and society. It should become the go-to place for anyone interested in the field of memory studies and in the work of one of its foremost theorists.