Recent courses (Fall 2022)
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From Maus to the Rabbi’s Cat: The Jewish Graphic Novel
This course explores the emergence of the Jewish graphic novel as a genre of literary and artistic expression in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The themes treated in the syllabus include the Shoah (Holocaust) and Israel; gender and history; as well as topics pertaining to political, cultural and spiritual identity. |
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Contemporary Women’s Writing From Israel
Literature by Israeli women addresses the complexities of Israel’s history, and its equally confounding present, through a variety of narrative genres and styles: historical and detective fiction, surrealism, psychoanalysis, graphic novels, poetry. Analyzing texts with attention to family, national identity, gender, violence, urban life, ethnic relations, religion, the Shoah. |
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Webinars & Recordings
- Maus: Using Graphic Novels to Teach about the Holocaust (spring 2022)
- Book Talk: The Object of Jewish Literature — A Material History (spring 2022)
- The Stories that Objects Tell (JTS, summer 2022)
