EDITED COLLECTIONS

• Special Issue Editor, author of "Introduction: The Cultural and Historical Stabilities and Instabilities of Jewish Orientalism" for Jewish Orientalism, a special issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24.2. Winter 2006: 1-10. (Requires access to Project Muse)

• "Encountering the Burden of Witness in Dan Pagis' 'Written in Pencil in a Sealed Railway Car'" Approaches to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, edited by Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes (Modern Language Association, Fall 2003). Pgs. 335-353.

• "'Thy People are my People': Emma Lazarus, Daniel Deronda, and the Ambivalence of Jewish Modernity"Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 1.1. 2002. Pgs. 49-72

• "'O, My Shehena who shall live in your tent?': Gender, Diaspora, and the Ambivalence of Return in E. M. Broner's A Weave of Women." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23:1 (2002). Pgs.96-125. Condensed version appeared in Lost on the Map of the World: The Quest for Home in Jewish-American Women Writers. ed. Phillipa Kafka (Peter Lang, 2001). Pgs. 89-111.

• "'Palestine was a halting place, one of many': Transnationalism and Jewish-American Poetics."MELUS 25.1. Spring 2000. Pgs. 147-180.

• "The Metaphysics of Loss and Jewish Identity in David Mamet's Homicide." Modern Jewish Studies Annual 11. 1999. Pgs.37-50.

• Special Issue Editor, author of introduction, for Jewish Diasporism: The Aesthetics of Ambivalence. Religion and Literature 30.3. Autumn 1998: Pgs.1-7.

• "'It is I who have been defending a religion called Judaism': the T.S. Eliot and Horace M. Kallen Correspondence." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 39.4. Winter 1997. Pgs. 321-356.

• "Notions of Diaspora in the Poetics of Marie Syrkin and Charles Reznikoff," Modern Jewish Studies Annual 10. 1997. Pgs. 69-82.

• "The Stranger and the Metropolis: Partial Visibilities and Manifold Possibilities of Identity in the Poetry of Charles Reznikoff." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 16.1. Fall 1997. Pgs. 43-73.

• "Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Apocalypse: The Unraveling of Poetic Autonomy." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 39.2. Summer 1997. Pgs. 97-124.

Non-Refereed Articles

• "David Grossman," "Dan Pagis," "Charles Reznikoff" In Holocaust Literature ed. S. Lillian Kremer (Routledge, 2003): Pgs. 481-486; 913-917; 987-992.

• "Charles Reznikoff" and ""Autobiography: New York/Autobiography: Hollywood'" in Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century ed. Eric Haralson (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001). Pgs. 603-7.

Reviews

• Review: Yosefa Loshitzky's Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen. In Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.

• Review: B. Jill Carroll's The Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God. Forthcoming in Religion and Literature. Fall 2003.

• Review: John Docker's 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora. Shofar 21.4. Spring, 2003. Pgs.171-173.

• Review: Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi's Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 1.2. October 2002. Pgs. 234-237.

• Essay-Review: Luke Carson's Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound; Mark Scroggins' Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. Modernism/Modernity. Spring 2000.

• Essay-Review: Marc-Alain Ouakin's The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud. Religion and Literature 29.3. Autumn 1997. Pgs. 85-88.

• Essay Review: David Aberbach's Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis: Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival. Religion and Literature 30.2. Summer 1998. Pgs. 117-121.

• Review: Eli Ben-Joseph's Aesthetic Persuasion: Henry James, the Jews, and Race. Religion and Literature 29.2. Summer 1997. Pgs. 97-99.

• Review: David Grossman's The Book of Intimate Grammar. Notre Dame Journal. Spring 1995. Pgs. 147-149.

• Guest Speaker and Moderator for panel discussion following the screening of the film Promises, an exploration of the Middle East Conflict through the eyes of Palestinian and Israeli children. Florida Room Documentary Film Festival: "The Rebirth of Social Media." November 14, 2002.

• Keynote Speaker. "An Evening Reminiscing on Chaim Potok." An event sponsored by The Benefactors of the Jewish Museum of Florida, November 20, 2002.

• "Philip Roth: The Writer and the Problem of Literary Piety" at the American Literature Association's

• Jewish-American Literature Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, October 23-27, 2002.

• "Re-reading Exodus and Judges: The Anti-Redemptive Epic of Desert Space in Shulamith Hareven's Desert Trilogy" for The Burden of the Bible in 20th Century Literature panel at the 2001 MLA Convention in New Orleans.

• "Post-Zionist Narratives of Childhood Dreaming and Heroic Nationalism: David Grossman's 'Momik' and Ilan Mossinzion's The Wooden Gun" at the 2000 MLA Convention in Washington D.C.

• "Jewish Modernity & Exile" at the "Discourses of Diaspora" conference hosted by the Canadian Association for American Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada, November 2-5, 2000.

• Chair of Panel: "The Avant-Garde & The Genealogy of Language Poetry" Panel at the Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between Politics & Aesthetics Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 14-15, 2000.

• "'Palestine was but a halting place': Diaspora and Jewish Modernism" delivered at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 10, 2000.

• "E.M. Broner's Aesthetics of Dispersal in A Weave of Women" at the 1998 MLA Convention in San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.

• "Charles Reznikoff and the Poetics of Exile" at the Fourth Annual Western Jewish Studies Association Conference: Exile/Diaspora/Homeland: In the 50th Year of the State of Israel, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, March 29-31, 1998. • "Rethinking T.S. Eliot's Anti-Semitism: The Horace M. Kallen Correspondence" at the 1998 Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 26-28, 1998.

• "The Metaphysics of Loss and Jewish Identity in David Mamet's Homicide" at the American Association of Professors of Yiddish Session of the 1997 MLA Convention in Toronto.

• "Urban Identities: Otherness in the Jewish Poetry of Charles Reznikoff" at the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in Boston, MA., December 21-23, 1997.

• "Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and the Narrative Conventions of Apocalypse" at the Conference on Literature and Apocalypse at SUNY, Binghamton. April 22-24, 1997.

• "Representations of Diaspora and Zionism in the Poetry of Marie Syrkin and Charles Reznikoff" at the 1996 Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington,DC.

• "Zionism versus the Diaspora: Conflicting Identities in the Poetics of Charles Reznikoff and Marie Syrkin" at the Loewenstein-Wiener Fellowship Seminar, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH., August 7,1996.

• "Emma Lazarus and Graphic Representation of the Jewish Body in the Gilded Age" at the 1996 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies: The Exhibition of Cultures: Nineteenth-Century Theory and Practice. At the Yale Center for British Art, April 12-13, 1996.

•Summer 2003: Coolidge Fellow in the 20th-Anniversary Research Colloquium of CrossCurrents: the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. Columbia University.

• Spring 2003: Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities

• Winter 2000: Koret Jewish Studies Publication Award for Finding One's Own Jerusalem: the Jewish-American Narrative Imagination and the Rhetoric of Zionism

• Spring 2000: Graduate Student Union Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor of the Year, Notre Dame

• Summer 2000: Kapson Fellowship in Jewish Studies

• Fall 1999-2000: Teaching Assistantship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Notre Dame

• Spring 1999: Alumni Association Award for Best Graduate Student Research

• Summer 1998: Hebrew University Fellowship, 8th Jerusalem Summer School in Jewish Studies

• May 1998: Graduate Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Univ. Of Michigan

• Spring 1998: Notre Dame's Mitchell Award for Excellence in Graduate Research