Miriam Silverberg

Miriam Silverberg (January 19, 1951 – March 16, 2008) was an American historian. A 1993 Guggenheim Fellow, she was author of Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu and Erotic Grotesque Nonsense (2007), winning the 1990 John K. Fairbank Prize for the former. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Women from 2000 to 2003. Biography Silverberg was born on January 19, 1951, in Washington, D.C.

After working at Hamilton College as an assistant professor of history since 1987, Silverberg moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. She served as the director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Women from 2000 to 2003. Two of her 1991 essays, according to Sabine Frühstück, "put the modern girl on the scholarly map" and marked the beginning of a dedicated academic subfield. In 1993, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Japanese modernity. In 2006, she published her final book Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, focusing on pre-World War II Japan, completing it "with the help of former students and friends" while ill. She was keynote speaker for a 1998 Japanese culture symposium at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Silverberg had a brother. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense (2006)