Staff & Faculty
Explore our listing of staff, faculty, and affiliates below.
Staff
Marc Caplan
Specialties
Jewish Literature; Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe; Jewish Culture in the United States; Yiddish Literature; Comparative Literature; Literary Theory; Global Literatures; German Literature; African Literature; Music Theory
Faculty
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll
Specialties
Intersection of Greek and Roman culture with Early Christinaity; Development of Early Christianity; New Testament; Greek Religion and Ritual; Religion in Popular Culture; Study of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity; Ancient constructions of gender; Intertextuality and the New Testament
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll
Specialties
Second Temple Judaism; Religion in Ptolemaic Egypt; Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Shir Alon
Specialties
Modern Arabic Language and Literature; Literary theory; Modern Hebrew Literature; Postcolonial Theory and Criticism; Gender and Feminism
Marc Caplan
Specialties
Jewish Literature; Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe; Jewish Culture in the United States; Yiddish Literature; Comparative Literature; Literary Theory; Global Literatures; German Literature; African Literature; Music Theory
Bruno Chaouat
Specialties
Intellectual and cultural history (20th-21st century France); Literary theory; 20th century novel; Ethics and literature; Holocaust studies
Sheer Ganor
Specialties
German-Jewish History; Displacement and forced migration; History and Memory; Diaspora Studies; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Modern Germany; Reparations
Michelle Hamilton
Specialties
Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies; Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe; The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy; Sephardic Traditions; Mediterranean Studies; Religious Studies & Philosophies
Ron Krebs
Specialties
counterterrorism; international relations theory; international security; the sociology of war and military service; language and politics; Israel; Politics & Foreign Policy; US-Israel Relations; Conflict & War in the Middle East
Bernard M. Levinson
Specialties
Jewish studies; history of interpretation; Hebrew Bible; Deuteronomy; cuneiform law; ancient Near Eastern studies; literary approaches to biblical studies; divine revelation
Hernán Matzkevich
Specialties
Early Modern Peninsular and Transatlantic Hispanic Literature; Jewish Studies; Early Modern Sephardic Intellectual Culture; Discourses of dehumanization and exclusion across Early Modern, modern, and contemporary literature; History of Science; Medical Humanities
Leslie Morris
Specialties
German Jewish studies; Holocaust and Memory studies; Comparative literature and literary theory; 20th- & 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry; Experimental poetry; Narrative medicine; psychoanalysis
Karen Painter
Specialties
music and politics; music criticism; Jewish studies; social history; German and Austrian history; implicit bias and racism; Chinese music
Natan Paradise
Specialties
Jewish studies, Jewish American literature, academic advising, college success
Andrew Scheil
Specialties
Old English language and literature; literatures and cultures of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages; medieval Latin literature, Celtic and Germanic languages and literatures; Middle English literature and Early Modern/Renaissance literature; folklore and folktales; oral tradition; traditions of exegesis, historiography and geography in the Middle Ages; science-fiction, fantasy, and horror literature/media; reception of classical and biblical literature
Rachel Trocchio
Specialties
17th- through 19th-century American literature; Puritanism and Puritan literary studies; Early Modern studies; religion and cognition; intellectual history
Meyer Weinshel
Specialties
Modern Yiddish Literature and Culture; German & Austrian Jewish Culture, 18th Century-Present; Translation, Migration, and Multilingualism; Endangered Languages & Language Revitalization; Queer Studies; Archival Studies and Practice
Emeriti Faculty
Gary Cohen
Specialties
Central and Eastern Europe, 1740-1939; Austria and Germany, 1790-1939; modern European social and political history; modern European Jewish history; ethnic minorities in modern Europe
Amy Kaminsky
Specialties
Latin American film; Spanish and Latin American literature; feminist literary theory and criticism; Exile and national identity in Latin America; Jewish writing and film in Argentina; race, gender, and sexuality
Alex Lubet
Specialties
Music composition; Disability Studies, Bioethics, Jewish & American Studies; Performance; Popular culture; music, theatre, film
Rick McCormick
Specialties
Brecht; Feminism; Film and cultural history; Film studies; German film history; Nazi cinema; Post-WWII German cinema: New German Cinema, GDR cinema, feminist cinema; Post-WWII West German literature and culture; Weimar film and culture; German-Jewish studies; Films by German and Austrian emigres/exiles
Renana Schneller
Specialties
Modern Hebrew Language and Literature; Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Poetry; Language Pedagogy; Modern Arabic Language and Literature; Classical Arabic; Judeo Arabic
Daniel Schroeter
Specialties
Muslim-Jewish Relations; Jewish history of North Africa and the Western Mediterranean, early-modern to modern; Moroccan history; Colonialism and the Jews in the Middle East and North Africa; Holocaust Studies; History of Israel and Palestine
Melissa Sellew
Specialties
early Christianity; Coptic language and literature; Greek and Roman religions; New Testament