How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach

About James V. Wertsch

James V. Wertsch studies language thought and culture with a special focus on national memory and narratives. His publications include the authored volumes Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind (Harvard University Press 1985) Voices of the Mind (Harvard University Press 1991) Mind as Action (Oxford University Press 1998) and Voices of Collective Remembering (Cambridge University Press 2002) as well as edited volumes with Cambridge University Press on Vygotsky and memory studies. After finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Wertsch was a postdoctoral fellow at the USSR Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University where he studied with the neuropsychologist Alexander R. Luria. Wertsch has held faculty positions at Northwestern University the University of California San Diego Clark University and Washington University in St. Louis where he has also been Vice Chancellor for International Affairs. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education and he holds honorary degrees from Linköping University and the University of Oslo. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and has served as a guest professor at the University of Oslo in Norway Tsinghua University in Beijing and at Fudan University in Shanghai.