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Until her retirement in 2024, Ann Rigney held the chair of Comparative Literature at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Ever since her PhD thesis, published as The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution (Cambridge UP, 1990),  she has been fascinated by the intersections between narrative, collective identity, and competing interpretations of the past. She has published widely in the field of modern memory cultures, with projects both on the nineteenth century and on contemporary developments. She has written in particular on issues relating to mediation, transnationalism, and, most recently, the role of memory in activism. Her monograph Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (Cornell UP, 2001) explored the role of fictionality in the writing of history from the early nineteenth century to the present. The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (Oxford UP, 2012) explored the long term reception of the writings of Walter Scott in material culture and political  discourses. Her most recent monograph is (Oxford UP, 2025) shows how the mediated recollection of protest intervenes in the present and offers resistance to the course of history. 

Edited collections include Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory  (co-edited with A. Erll, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009), Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales (co-edited with C. De Cesari, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), and Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever (co-edited with J. Leerssen, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Together with Kiene Brillenburg, she is co-author of a widely-used introduction to literary studies called Het Leven van teksten (Amsterdam UP, 2006) this also appeared in a revised version in English as The Life of Texts: An Introduction to Literary Studies (Amsterdam UP, 2019).

 In 2019 she was awarded an ERC advanced grant for a project entitled (REACT) which ran until 2024. It examines the ways in which protest movements since the late nineteenth century have been culturally remembered and how that memory feeds back into new mobilizations. This collaborative project was the basis for Remembering Hope; it also led to (co-edited with T. Smits, Amsterdam UP, 2023), A (co-edited with D. Salerno, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2024), (co-edited with D. Erbil and C. Vlessing, London: Palgrave Macmillan,  2025), and (co-edited with S. Van den Elzen, Leiden: Brill, 2025). All of these publications are available open access.

Recent Research Projects

Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe  (REACT), 2019-2023; ERC advanced grant.

. Marie-Curie Global Fellowship, 2019-2022. Researcher: Dr. Daniele Salerno

Monographs

The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (Oxford UP, 2012; paperback 2017). .

Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (Cornell UP, 2001). Winner Jean-Pierre Barricelli award. .

The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution (Cambridge UP, 1990;2003). .  

Collections

Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales, edited with Chiara de Cesari (de Gruyter, 2014). .

Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever, ed.with J. Leerssen (Palgrave, 2014).

Reconciliation and Memory: Critical Perspectives, edited with Nicole Immler and Damien Short (July 2012). .

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory, edited with Astrid Erll (de Gruyter, 2009).   

Talks

The Past is Another Story, Lecture for the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity: Regions of Memory Conference, 木瓜福利影视 of Warsaw, March 2016. Available to watch .

Transnational Memory: Bloody Sunday 1887-2014, Lecture 2 in the Methodologies of Memory: Distinguished Lecture Series, UCD Humanities Institute Dublin, February 2015. Available to listen to .

BYU Radio Show Thinking Aloud Interview, BYU Utah, September 2014.Available to watch .

Facing Waterloo: From Experience to Imagination, at the Varieties of Historical Experience Conference, 木瓜福利影视 of Chicago, April 2014. Available to listen to .

Memory and Mediation: Ideas and Challenges, Keynote at the ISTME Kick-off, Copenhagen, May 2013. Available .