Professor of Germanic Languages
Ruth Meltzer Director of Jewish Studies Program
- Film
- Life Writing, Auto/biography
- Novel
- Poetry/ Poetics
- Short Story
- Central Europe
- Diaspora
- East Asia
- Jewish Studies
- Near East
- US
- Western Europe
- World Literature
- C19
- C20, including Modernism
- C21/ Contemporary
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Religion
- Translation
Fields of Study
Research Interests:
Yiddish literature, especially poetry; literary translation, translation history and theory; Jewish American literature; gender and Jewish literature; Jewish film; East/West connections; Modernism. A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987; Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky; Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, co-editor; Women and Jewish Poetry: Nashim, 19 (June 2010), editor; Studies in American Jewish Literature (SAJL): Jewish American Poetry (Special Issue, Spring, 2015), co-editor.