Education

M.S.J.S., Spertus Institute (2000)
PhD, Washington (St. Louis)
MA, Washington (St. Louis)
BA, Rutgers

Area(s) of Specialty

Milton
Renaissance Poetry
Jewish-American Literature
Holocaust Studies
Hebrew Literature and Rabbinics

Contact Information

C203 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5403
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 - Queen Elizabeth I:
Contemporary Images and Modern Perspectives
ENG 160 - Introduction to British Literature
ENG 335 - Sixteenth Century Literature
ENG 327 - Milton
ENG 328 - Seventeenth- Century British Literature
ENG 372 - American Jewish Literature
MALS Seminars: The Mystery of God; Literature and the Holocaust; Love, War, and Wisdom: Hebrew and Israeli Literature in Translation.
BIB 631 - Five Scrolls of the Jewish Festivals
HIS 762 - Contemporary Judaism
REL 261 - Foundations of Traditional Judaism
REL 262 - Modern & Contemporary Judaism

Selected Publications

Speaking Silences: Stillness and Voice in modern Thought and Jewish Tradition,(Charlottesville, 1994).

Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer, (Charlottesville, 1993).

Literature and the Pastoral, (New Haven, 1984).

"That Troublesome Cousin," in Jesus Through Jewish Eyes, ed. Beatrice Bruteau (Maryknoll, NY; 2001), pp.63-73.