Victoria Aarons

Dr. Victoria Aarons holds the O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professorship in Literature at Trinity University. She earned her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from UC Berkeley, specializing in American Jewish literature, Holocaust studies, and graphic narratives. With over 100 scholarly articles and 14 authored/edited books, her research examines memory, trauma, and identity in Jewish women's graphic narratives.

Her recent works include The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives (2025) and Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives (2023), which received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award. She serves on editorial boards for Philip Roth Studies and Studies in American Jewish Literature.

Dr. Aarons has received numerous honors including the Piper Professor Award and Z.T. Scott Faculty Fellowship. She actively contributes to Holocaust education through the Jewish Federation of San Antonio and the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Her scholarship explores:

• Visual representations of Holocaust testimony
• Third-generation Holocaust inheritance
• Jewish identity in graphic narratives
• Contemporary literary criticism