Marita Sturken

Biographic Data

ID173889
NAMEMarita Sturken
GIVEN NAMESMarita
FAMILY NAMESturken
SIGNATURESTURKEN M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS77
TOTAL CITATIONS252
AUTHOR COUNT76
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX7

  • Designing the memory of terror, negotiating national memory: The National September 11 Memorial and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEMemory Studies2023References: 2

    This essay analyzes two American memorials that were built in the post-9/11 era: the National September 11 Memorial in New York City, which opened in 2011, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2018. Both of these memorials pay tribute to victims of terrorism, the first to victims of foreign terrorism and the second to victims of lynchings, a form of racial terrorism within the United States. Thi…

  • Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

    Marita SturkenBOOKTerrorism in American Memory2022

  • Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

    Marita SturkenBOOKTerrorism in American Memory2022

  • Containing absence, shaping presence at ground zero

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEMemory Studies2020Cited by: 4References: 1

    This essay analyzes the dynamics of absence and presence at the 9/11 memorial and museum in New York, as elements of their design and aspects of the haunting of the site. Of the 2753 victims, 1113 have never been identified, despite a huge and expensive forensic identification process, and this absence has been a shaping force at the site. While the designs of the memorial and the museum both evoke absence, both also attempt to render the dead pr…

  • The objects that lived: The 9/11 Museum and material transformation

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEMemory Studies2015Cited by: 15References: 6

    This essay analyzes the September 11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero in New York through the framework of memory and materiality. The 9/11 memorial and museum are both sites through which the material transformation of 9/11 is mediated—through preservation, re-creation, and fetishization and through narratives of absence, presence, and remains. I examine the meanings of material transformation in the dust that emerged in the wake of the twin t…

  • The 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Remaking of Ground Zero

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2015Cited by: 5

    The 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Remaking of Ground Zero Marita Sturken (bio) In the vast Foundation Hall of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opened in May 2014 at Ground Zero in New York, reside two objects that embody in many ways its complex, contradictory, moving yet problematic project. The first is the very large steel column that stands in the middle of the room, commanding over the space. Known as the Last Column, this thi…

  • Ways of Seeing, Practices of Looking

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2012

  • Feeling the Nation, Mining the Archive: Reflections on Lauren Berlant's Queen of America

    Marita SturkenARTICLECommunication and Critical/Cultural…2012Cited by: 2References: 3

    This essay engages with Lauren Berlant's 2007 book, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, as a key text in the trajectory of cultural studies scholarship and the emergence of affect theory. It analyzes Berlant's concepts of infantile citizenship, the affective relationship to the nation, the intimate public sphere, the emergence of a national sexuality, and the counter-practices of “Diva” citizenship. The essay argues that Queen of Americ…

  • Comfort, irony, and trivialization: The mediation of torture

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2011Cited by: 10References: 4

    This article examines the interrelationship of torture and comfort as a key feature of the United States project of American Empire, examining how the U.S. practice of torture is mediated in American culture, in particular through the distancing strategies of domestication, trivialization, kitschification, and irony. It uses as a framing concept Roger Silverstone’s notion of ‘proper distance’, in particular its formulation of the relationship of …

  • The New Aesthetics of Patriotism

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2009

  • Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

    Open AccessMarita SturkenBOOKTourists of History2007Cited by: 4

  • Memory, consumerism and media: Reflections on the emergence of the field

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEMemory Studies2007Cited by: 19References: 1

    This article situates the emergence of the field of memory studies in relation to several areas of study: cultural studies, media studies, communication and visual culture. It considers key concepts of those fields — memory practices, technologies of memory, mediation and consumerism — in relation to memory studies. Finally, it reflects on some cautionary aspects of memory studies as it moves forward as a field of study

  • Displaced Bodies in Residual Spaces

    Simon Leung, S C Leung et al.ARTICLEPublic Culture2005

    Simon Leung teaches in the Department of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. His work has been presented at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of "Site-Specificity en Abyme," in Surface Tension (2003), and coeditor of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 (2004). Marita Sturken teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Her book…

  • The aesthetics of absence: Rebuilding Ground Zero

    Open AccessMarita SturkenARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2004Cited by: 31References: 3

    In this article, I examine the narratives and meanings that have been projected onto the space of Ground Zero in New York City since September 11, 2001, how they have been deployed for various political agendas, and how they have informed the ways in which the site will be rebuilt and memorialized. I investigate the changing meanings attributed to the dust and the footprints of the World Trade Center buildings and the debates over architectural d…

  • The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory

    Marita SturkenREVIEWJournal of American History2002

    Once in a long while, the publication of a book has a particularly fortuitous timing, in which its relevance seems charged. Such was the case with the publication of Edward T. Linenthal's book The Unfinished Bombing within a few weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Linenthal's book is an impressive achievement in and of itself. It is, and probably will remain, the definitive study of the effects of the 1995 terrorist bombing on Oklahoma…

  • Masculinity, Courage, and Sacrifice

    Marita SturkenARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…2002Cited by: 2

  • Desiring the Weather: El Niño, the Media, and California Identity

    Marita SturkenARTICLEPublic Culture2001Cited by: 3

    Public Culture - Volume 13, Number 2, Spring 2001

  • Imaging Postmemory/Renegotiating History

    Marita SturkenARTICLEAfterimage1999

    Review| June 01 1999 Imaging Postmemory/Renegotiating History Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, by Marianne Hirsch, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, 304 pp./$49.95 (hb), $22.00 (sb)Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography & the Holocaust, by Andrea Liss, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 152 pp./$22.00 (sb)Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory, b…

  • Women Artists’ Group Fights Discrimination

    Marita SturkenARTICLEAfterimage1998

    Essay| June 01 1998 Women Artists’ Group Fights Discrimination Marita Sturken Marita Sturken Marita Sturken is currently an Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1998) 25 (6): 5. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1998.25.6.5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…

  • The Remembering of Forgetting: Recovered Memory and the Question of Experience

    Marita SturkenARTICLESocial Text1998Cited by: 1

    Etude du phenomene culturel de la memoire recouvree qui remet en question la famille, la sexualite et les relations de pouvoir dans la societe americaine contemporaine. S'interessant en particulier au souvenir de viol chez les femmes adultes, l'A. souleve le probleme des criteres pour etablir l'evidence des faits passes et interroge la relation entre la memoire et l'experience. Au-dela du debat sur la verite ou la faussete du souvenir, l'A. denon…

  • Sinners, Lovers and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures

    Shaunna L Scott, Richard Morris et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998

  • You are What you Buy

    Marita SturkenARTICLEAfterimage1997

    Essay| February 01 1997 You are What you Buy: “Friendly Fire” and the New Public Sphere Marita Sturken Marita Sturken Marita Sturken teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997). This essay is a revised version of a talk given at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in September …

  • Electronic Time

    Marita SturkenARTICLEAfterimage1997

    Essay| December 01 1997 Electronic Time: The Memory Machine of Jim Cambell Marita Sturken Marita Sturken Marita Sturken teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1997) 25 (3): 8–10. https://doi.org/1…

  • Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering

    Marita SturkenBOOKTangled Memories1997Cited by: 122

    Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cu…

  • Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment

    Marita SturkenARTICLEpositions asia critique1997Cited by: 10References: 18

    Research Article| August 01 1997 Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment Marita Sturken Marita Sturken Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1997) 5 (3): 687–707. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-5-3-687 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite I…