Ann Rigney

Ann Rigney is emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and founder of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. She has published widely on theories of cultural memory and on memory cultures from the nineteenth century to the present, including The Afterlives of Walter Scott (Oxford, 2012) and The Visual Memory of Protest (co-edited with T. Smits; 2023). In the period 2019-2024, she was recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project Remembering Activism (ReAct).