Contributors to This Issue
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Janet Burstein has taught graduate and undergraduate students for 30 years at Drew University and the Jewish Theological Seminary and has published in several fields: numerous essays on Victorian Literature and Women's Literature, essays and two books on American Jewish Literature and, most recently, essays on Israeli women's war films, early Israeli films on the kibbutz, and an interview with Israeli filmmaker Judd Ne'eman. Retired now from full time teaching, her research takes her every year to the film archive at Tel Aviv University.
Mikhal Dekel is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College of the City University of New York. She holds a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, a Masters in English from the City College of New York, and a Bachelors in Law from Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity and the Zionist Moment (Northwestern University Press, 2010). Her articles and translations have appeared in ELH, Women's Studies Quarterly, Callaloo, and Guernica, and in various anthologies.
David Ian Hanauer is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the Assessment Coordinator and educational researcher in the PHIRE (Phage Hunting Integrating Research and Education) Program in the Hatfull Laboratory, Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the connections among authentic literacies and social functions in first and second languages across disciplines. Dr. Hanauer is the author of five books, including Poetry and the Meaning of Life and Poetry as Research: Exploring Second Language Poetry Writing. His articles have been published in Science and a wide range of applied linguistics and educational journals. Dr. Hanauer is the recipient of several grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Science Foundation for exploring science-literacy connections. Dr. Hanauer is co-editor of the Language Studies, Science and Engineering book series with John Benjamins. [End Page vii]
Stephen Katz is professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at Indiana University's Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is the author of Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature (Texas, 2009), a study about the representation of Native and African Americans in American Hebrew literature. He is currently working on literary responses to the Holocaust in the years during and immediately following the Second World War.
John Rodden has published widely on Jewish literary life, especially on the New York intellectuals associated with Partisan Review, including Lionel Trilling and the Critics (1999), The Worlds of Irving Howe (2004), Irving Howe and the Critics (2005), and Politics and The Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe (2011). His newest book is The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell (2011).
Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of the forthcoming Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009 (SUNY Press) and the recent In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2008) in the prestigious Blackwell Manifesto, and he is now writing Reading the European Novel. His books include, among many others, Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (2004), Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (2003), and Rereading Conrad (2001). He served as consulting editor of the six-volume edition of The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli (2004) for which he wrote the General Introduction. He also has published about 75 poems, some of which are available on his web page, and a little fiction. His former graduate students and NEH participants have put together a Festschrift in his honor entitled Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz, eds. Dan Morris and Helen Maxson, University of Delaware Press, forthcoming.
Ivy Schweitzer is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Her fields are early American literature, women's literature, gender, and cultural studies. She is the author, most recently, of Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature, and is the early period editor...
