BOOKS:
Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. SUNY Press, 2011. Paperback edition 2012. “Highly Recommended” by Choice
Reading Michael Chabon. Greenwood Press, 2010. Added to Gale Virtual Reference Library 2011
Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience. SUNY Press, Feminist Theory and Criticism Series, 2001. Reprint of Chapter 4, “The Construction of the Sadomasochistic Couple,” in Gale’s Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 202 (2008)
SELECTED ARTICLES and ESSAYS:
“Got Jewish Milk?”: Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History. Jewish Film and New Media. Spring 2017 (lead article)
“The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Spring 2014
“Why Do Research?, a reflection on the relationship between the scholarly enterprise and the sacred art of teaching, in the Forum section of PMLA 129.2 (2014)
“Reading Jewishness as a Marker of Ethno-Racial and Cultural History,” MELUS 37.2 (2012)
“On Homelands and Home-Making: Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel. Journal of Modern Literature. Spring 2010
“Educating for a Jewish Gaze: The Close Doubling of Philosemitism and Antisemitism in Sandra Goldbacher’s The Governess.” Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, eds. Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz (U of Delaware P, 2008)
“The Death and Life of a Jewish Judith Shakespeare: Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Spring 2007
“Jewish Gender Trouble: Women Writing Men of Valor.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Fall 2006
Signed entries on Michael Chabon, Rebecca Goldstein, Laura Hobson, Judith Katz, Lesléa Newman, Lev Raphael. Greenwood Encylcopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. 2005
“The Lesbian and the Mishpachah: Newman’s In Every Laugh a Tear.” Studies in Jewish American Fiction 22 (2003)
“Introduction.” Best Short Fiction of Lesléa Newman. Alyson Books, 2003
“To Queer or Not to Queer: That’s Not the Question.” College Literature. Feb. 1997
“Appropriating the Master Appropriator: The James Joyce Murder as Feminist Critique.” In Joyce and Popular Culture. Ed. R.B. Kershner. University of Florida Press, 1996
“Industry or Community: Joyce and the Social Function of Criticism.” James Joyce Quarterly. Winter 1994
Journalistic Writing and Reviews:
Public Scholar, Beware. Inside Higher Ed. April 11, 2019.
Feeding English Majors in the 21st Century. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Jan. 25, 2016
Faculty Service and the Difference Between Opportunity and Exploitation. Chronicle of Higher Education. March 14, 2018
Review of Deborah Lipstadt’s Antisemitism: Here and Now. Washington Independent Review of Books. March 1, 2019
7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2018. Lilith Magazine Blog. Dec. 13, 2018
Review of Kitty Zeldis’ Not Our Kind. September 26, 2018
Is 93Queen the Face of Hasidic Feminism? Jewish Women’s Archive Blog. August 3, 2018
When an Accused Sexual Harasser is an Academic Superstar. Lilith Magazine Blog. Aug. 7, 2018
Putting the Jew Back in the Queer (review of Lillian Faderman’s Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death). Tablet. May 29, 2018
Why Did I Cry for Philip Roth? Lilith Magazine Blog. May 24, 2018
Manicotti, Anyone?: A Kosher for Passover Easter Dinner. Tablet. March 30, 2018.
Israeli Cinema, Feminist Style. Review of Rachel Harris’ Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema (Wayne State UP). Jewish Women’s Archive Blog. Feb. 7, 2018.
Academic Grief: A Satire. Lilith Magazine Blog. Feb. 5, 2018.
Our Bodies, Our Memories, Our Poetry: Review of Leslea Newman’s Lovely. Lilith Magazine Blog. Jan. 11, 2018.
Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2017. Lilith Magazine Blog. Dec. 21, 2017
Billie Jean Beats Bobby: Watching Battle of the Sexes in Trumpian Times. Lilith Magazine Blog. Oct. 20, 2017.
A Bicultural Jew Gives Thanks on Sukkot. Jewish Women’s Archive Blog. October 3, 2017
The Disappearing Jew. Inside Higher Education. Aug. 24, 2017
‘Are You or Have You Ever Been a Zionist?’ Letter to Chicago Dyke March. Forward. June 30, 2017
The Misogyny of Menashe. Lilith Magazine Blog. July 28, 2017
Flying While Female on EL AL. Lilith Magazine: the Blog. June 23, 2017
Serious Missteps in Dirty Dancing Remake. Lilith Magazine Blog. May 31, 2017
Becoming the Person You Need to Be. Review of Tova Mirvis’s The Book of Separation: A Memoir. Lilith Magazine. Summer 2017
Cinematic Sustenance for a Jewish Feminist Exodus. Lilith Magazine Blog. April 12, 2017
Identity Crisis: The “White Jewish” Question Posed in The Human Stain. Washington Independent Review of Books. March 10, 2017
Showing Up at Jewish Office Hours. Review of Abigail Pogrebin’s My Jewish Year:18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew. Lilith Magazine. Winter 2016-17
Celebrating 7 Jewish “Nasty Women” of 2016. Lilith Magazine Blog. Dec. 30, 2016
Shiva Ribbons, Not Safety Pins. Lilith Magazine Blog. Nov. 22, 2016
Re-Visioning Rich. Ms. Magazine Blog. June 3, 2016
The Narrowness of Media Boys Club: A Primary Passover Story. Lilith Magazine Blog. April 21, 2016
My Trumped Up Jewish Fantasy, From A to Z. Tablet. April 4, 2016
7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2015. Lilith Magazine Blog. Dec. 22, 2015
Holy and Unholy Tweets. Lilith Magazine Blog. Sept. 21, 2015
Review of Woman in Gold. Journal of Religion and Film 19.2 (2015)
“How Rainbow Jews Threaten a Black and White Haredi Worldview. Lilith Magazine Blog. Aug. 3, 2015. Excerpted in Fall 2015 issue (on-line and print version)
“Communal Mourning.” Lilith Magazine Blog. July 6, 2015
“Felix and Meira: Flawed Flick Worth Watching.” Lilith Magazine Blog. June 1, 2015
Keeping the Sabbath Post-Hyper Cacher. Lilith Magazine Blog. Jan. 16, 2015
Jewish Calendar Talk. Lilith Magazine Blog. Oct. 3, 2014
Yentl, Me, and 1983. Lilith Magazine Blog. April 23, 2013
Review of Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue. The Post and Courier. Oct. 28, 2012
Review of Leslea Newman’s October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard. Lilith Magazine Blog. Sept. 24, 2012.
“Jewish Musings 5772.” Nov. 15, 2011. Drash Pit