Book Talk: Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry with Zohar Weiman-Kelman

6:00pm - March/2/2020

Zohar Weiman-Kelman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign literatures and Linguistics and holds the Blechner Career Development Chair in East European Jewish Culture at  Ben-Gurion University. Zohar received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Gender and Women’s Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Zohar was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and an associate scholar at the Humanities Forum on Sex, both at the University of Pennsylvania. Zohar’s first book Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry was published by SUNY press in 2018.

https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6651-queer-expectations.aspx

Cosponsors: Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Theorizing Colloquium Series of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Poetry and Poetics Reading Group (English department).


Meyerson Conference Center, Room 223, Van Pelt Pelt-Dietrich Library.

Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Photo ID necessary for entrance. For more information, Email: jsp-info@sas.upenn.edu or Call 215-898-6654.