Contributors
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Omri Asscher is a translator and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on ideological aspects involved in the translation of Hebrew literature in America. His articles have appeared in international journals for Translation Studies, including Target and the Israeli Dappim: Research in Literature. His most recent translation into Hebrew is Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first novel.
Alan F. Benjamin is a lecturer in Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a cultural anthropologist. He is interested in the social processes through which contemporary Jewish identities are constructed—a topic explored in his book, Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity on Curaçao.
Ezra Cappell is an associate professor of English and director of the Inter-American Jewish Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Cappell teaches and publishes in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary Jewish American literature. He has published numerous articles on American and Jewish American writing and he is the author of the book American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction. He is a frequent lecturer on Jewish American culture and Holocaust writing and editor of the SUNY Press book series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture.
Dean Franco is an associate professor of English at Wake Forest University and author of Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing and Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969. He is currently writing a book on critical cartographies and the geography of recognition.
Loren Glass is an associate professor of English and the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity and the Modern United States and Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde, in the Post*45 series with Stanford University Press. [End Page v]
Brett Ashley Kaplan is an associate professor in the programs in Comparative and World Literature and Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation.
Giulia Miller is an affiliated lecturer in Modern Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2009 she was a Malvin and Lea Banks Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Reconfiguring Surrealism in Modern Hebrew Literature: Menashe Levin, Yitzhak Oren, Yitzhak Orpaz.
Paul B. Miller is an assistant professor of French and Latin American studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination and has published widely on Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean literature.
Adam Zachary Newton is University Professor and Ronald P. Stanton Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Narrative Ethics; Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in 20th-Century America; The Fence and the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel Among the Nations; The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance; and the forthcoming “To Make the Hands Impure”: Art and Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy. In addition to participating in Roth @80, he was most recently a plenary or keynote speaker at “Jews, Color, and Race,” in Be’ersheva, Israel, and “Readings of Emmanuel Levinas’s Difficult Freedom,” in Toulouse, France, and at a conference at Columbia University entitled “Neighbors in Jewish Studies.”
Tahneer Oksman recently completed her doctorate in English literature at the Graduate Center at CUNY, with a focus on Jewish women’s graphic memoirs. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and Studies in Comics, as well as the forthcoming anthology Visualizing Jewish Narrative. She has taught courses hinging on her interests in comics, visual media, and American literature at NYU-Gallatin, Brooklyn College, and Rutgers University. In the fall of 2013, she joins the faculty at Marymount Manhattan College as an assistant professor of Academic Writing and director of the Freshman Writing Program.
Roberta Rosenberg is a professor of English at Christopher Newport University, where she teaches courses in multicultural American literatures and directs a minor in civic engagement. She is currently co-editing...
