Job title: Adjunct Lecturer (when teaching; otherwise, Visiting Scholar)Phone: (631) 632-7390
Education:
Ph.D., English; Stony Brook University. Dec. 2015. Topic: “Forgetting and Remembering: Representations of Holocaust Childhoods in
Hiding.”
M.S.W., Adelphi University, 1976. 30 graduate credits in small group work and non-profit management.
B.A., Humanities, cum laude, New College of Hofstra University, 1971.
Publications and Presentations:
“Palimpsest: Autobiography in Hiding.” Presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Online. December 16, 2024. Address.
“Trauma as Leviathan: The Monster under the Text in Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood.” Presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Washington D.C. December 17, 2017. Address.
“Cut the Living Child in Two: Compound Personality in a Child Survivor.” Presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. San Diego: December 2016.
“The Shattered Self: Hiding from the Nazis, Hiding in the Text.” Holocaust Studies. Presented at the 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston: December 2015.
“Shan’t Tell: Sex, Lies, and the Unspeakable in the Fiction of Jerzy Kosinski.” Association of Documentary Editors: Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts. MLA Annual Convention. Boston: January 2013. Address.
“Bringing Lessons from Homeschool to the Writing Classroom.” English Journal 100.2 (2010): 98-104. Print.
“Daphne Merkin.” Contemporary Jewish American Authors. Ed. Michael Taub. Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1994: pp. 218-222.
“Selected Bibliography of Literary Criticism on American Jewish Fiction and Authors.” Co-author with Carole Kessner. Jewish Book Annual. (vol. 50). NY: Jewish Book Council, 1992.
Awards and Appointments:
Visiting Scholar, Stony Brook Univesity, 2025 – 2027.
President’s Distinguished Travel Grant, Stony Brook University, 2017.
President’s Award for Teaching Excellence/Graduate Student Award; SUNY/ Stony Brook, 1995.
Faculty Advisor/Lecturer, Long Island Center for Jewish Studies, 1993-1997