Research
American Popular Culture
Jewish Studies
Childhood Studies
Children's Literature
Comics and Graphic Novels
Cultural Studies
Drag
Intergenerational Studies
LGBT
Performance
Queer Studies
Trans Studies
Trauma Studies
Visual Art, Visual Arts
Maurice Sendak
Research Assistant
Part Time
Academic Manuscripts
American Jewish History
Manuscript Authors
New Media
Public History Section
Several Books
Jewish Identities, Jewish Identity
European Jewry
Tauber Institute
Gendered Explorations
Ajs Review
Artistic Expression
Residence Program
Visual Culture
Queer Art
Affective Investments
American Comparative Literature
Contemporary Maleness
Content Editor
Holocaust Literature
Holocaust Research Institute
Imaging Ghosts
Intersectional Feeling
Jewish Art
Memory Studies
Mississippi Press
One Day
Post Traumatic Meaning
Post Traumatic Memory
Queer Child
Royal Holloway
Scholar Consultant
Social Integration
Symbolic Future
Third Generation
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Executive Director
Graphic Narrative
Part Hole
Queer Youth
Short Stories
Special Collections Blog
List of Publications (41)
In 2022
41
Book subvention ($1,000), Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, 2022
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In 2020
40
Eli Bromberg, Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2020), AJS Review.
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In 2019
39
SOLICITED REVIEWS Forthcoming Kevin Haworth, The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets (University of Mississippi Press, 2019), Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal.
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38
"Imaging Ghosts: Visual Culture and the (Im)possibility of the Queer Child," American Comparative Literature Association Conference (Harvard 2019
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Unspecified
37
Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context. Stanford Forthcoming "Queer Jewish American Literature." In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press (in production)
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36
Forthcoming "Queer Shapeshifting and Cross-Gender Supplication in the Work of Bruno Schulz," The Journal of Jewish Identities (invited)
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35
"Analogies Drawn Online: Bidirectional Holocaust Memory in Trump-Era Web Comics," Literature and Belief 40.2 & 41.1: 43-82.
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34
"Like Daughter, Like Grandson: Queering Post-Traumatic Memory," Memory Studies. 1-25.
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33
"Claustrophobic in the Gaps of Others: Affective Investments from the Queer Margins." Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture.
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32
Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner, eds. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 553-574.
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31
"Before Wild Things: Maurice Sendak and the Postwar Jewish American Child as Queer Insider-Outsider," IMAGES: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 12.1: 85-94.
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30
"Grandsons of the Holocaust: Contemporary Maleness and Post-Traumatic Meaning." In the Shadows of the Shadows of the Holocaust: Narratives of the Third Generation. Esther Jilovsky et al. eds.
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29
Forthcoming The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (New Orleans, LA), American Jewish History, Public History Section.
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28
Convener and Chair of Scholarly Working Group on Jewish Gender Performance and Drag, Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience (Zoom, by invitation)
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27
Participant in The Search for Humanity After Atrocity (NEH-Funded Faculty Seminar, Kean University, June 17-30)
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26
"Of Terrors and Joys: Understanding Sendak's Own Jewish Childhood," Vilde Chayes/Wild Things: A Scholarly Symposium On The Art Of Maurice Sendak, University of Connecticut, February 8
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25
"New Books in Queer and Trans Religion: Publishing During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (rountable panelist), American Academy of Religion's LGBTIQ Status Committee, May 25
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24
"Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Perspective," Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's Gilda Slifka Internship Program, July 13
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23
"Wild Visionary: A Book Launch and Conversation on Maurice Sendak" with authors Gregory Maguire and Brian Selznick, Tulane University, April "Unpacking Wild Things," in Prof. Catherine Golden's course "Children's Literature: A History," Skidmore College, March 25
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22
"Maurice Sendak in Queer Perspective" with Prof. Jack Halberstam and Prof. Kenneth Kidd, the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (New York City), May 27
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21
"Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context," Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion, Pacific School of Religion, March 11
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20
"Teaching on Queer Topics in the Jewish Studies Classroom," UPenn Center for Teaching and Learning, February 11
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19
"Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context," Fordham University Center for Jewish Studies, February 10
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18
"'I Skipped My Adolescence': Memory, Displacement, and Survival in Maurice Sendak's American Child," Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, May 4
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17
"Before Wild Things: Maurice Sendak and the Postwar Jewish American Child as Queer Insider-Outsider," Brandeis Seminar on Contemporary Jewish Life, February 13
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16
"Rumpus or Supper?: Maurice Sendak on Jewish American Childhood and Twentieth-Century Acculturation," Brandeis University Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies and The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, February 28
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15
"Maurice Sendak and the Artistic Expression of Post-Holocaust Queer Jewish Identity," Jewish Theological Seminary Gladstein Conference: "The Betzalel Effect: Inspiring Deeper Jewish Engagement Through Imagination, Play, and the Arts," Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, NY, February 4
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14
"'The Boy of Today Loves Speed': Sendak on Interwar Jewish Childhood in Flux," Jewish Studies Colloquium, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University, October 17
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13
"Wild American Things?: The Postwar Child and Jewish American Coalescence," University of Kentucky, February 4
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12
"Surviving a Queer Boyhood: Gendered Explorations of Post-Holocaust Subjectivity in Maurice Sendak and Beyond," Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Scholar-in-Residence Program, January 26
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11
"Flawless Sabrina and the Queer Art of the Jewish Drag Mother," Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 19-21
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10
"Strong, Bald, and Critical: Tracing Queer Jewish Drag from Claude Cahun to Sasha Velour," Association for Jewish Studies Conference (Zoom), December 13-17
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9
"Make Way For Social Integration: The American Jewish Committee Addresses Postwar Youth in Comics and Film," Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 16-18
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8
"Like Daughter, Like Grandson: A Self-Reflexive Case Study of Post-Holocaust Motherhood and Childhood Across Generations, Geography, and Gender," The Holocaust and Motherhood: A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference (Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London), March 23
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7
"That Intersectional Feeling: Maurice Sendak's Queer American Jewishness," Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 17-19
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6
"Growing Backward: Maurice Sendak's Child is Not Your Symbolic Future," Children's Literature Association Conference, June 22-24
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5
"Maurice Sendak and the Queerness of Postmemory," Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 18-20
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4
"Part Hole" (graphic narrative). Why Faith?: A Comics Anthology. Edited by Jack Holder (forthcoming).
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3
"Wild, Outside, in the Night: Maurice Sendak, Queer American Jewishness, and the Child." Archives & Special Collections Blog, University of Connecticut.
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2
"Surviving a Queer Boyhood: Gendered Explorations of Post-Holocaust Subjectivity in Maurice Sendak and Beyond." Blog post for Fresh Ideas from HBI.
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1
"My Lips" (penname Joseph Aviv). OMGQueer: Short Stories by Queer Youth. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 127-136.
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