Areas
Jewish Literature, Immigrant Literature, Travel Literature, Ethnic Literature

Major Publications
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed Shapiro.  Editor. New Yiddish Library for Yale University Press, forthcoming Fall 2006.

Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World. Book. University of Wisconsin Press, Spring 2003.

Refereed articles:

"Cynthia Ozick's Envy: A Reconsideration,"  Studies in American Jewish Literature.  Summer 2005.

"Sabotaging the Text: Tannhäuser in the Works of Heine, Wagner, Herzl and Perez," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society, 9.1. Fall 2002. pp. 34-52.

"The Jewish Robinson Crusoe," Comparative Literature 54.3. Summer 2002. pp. 215-228.

“The Little Engine that Couldn’t: How Yiddish Writers Reinvented the Railroad Novel,” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society, March 2001.

“Shipping the Self to America: Yiddish Immigrant Novels and the Perils of Assimilation,”  MELUS Journal (Multiethnic Literature in the United States), Fall 2001.

“The Self as Marrano in Jacob Glatstein’s Autobiographical Novels,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Vol. 18, No. 3,  Fall 1998.

“The Jewish Don Quixote,” Cervantes, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 1997.

In Progress

I am currently working on a book about the relationship between Jewish and world literature tentatively titled The Jewish Illusionists: How Jewish Writers Used and Subverted World Literature.  The book will examine how Jewish writers adapted and rewrote European texts to present specifically Jewish notions.  Work on the project is supported by an ACLS Junior Faculty Fellowship.

Current Research
American Immigration Narratives 
Travel Literature 
Jewish Literature

Courses Taught
Immigration Literature 
American Ethnic Literature 
Modern Jewish Literature
Images of the City 
Introduction to Jewish Studies