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Curriculum Vitae

Primary Research Interests: Late nineteenth-century British and American literature. Jewish and multicultural literature.

Additional Interests: Cultural theory; film

Courses:
English 486 -- The History of Criticism
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Recent Publications:

Books

• The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America. Oxford University Press, 2000.

• Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture. Stanford University Press, 1990.

Edited Books

• Jewish in America. (with Sara Blair) University of Michigan Press, 2004.

• Hitchcock's America. (with Richard Millington). Oxford University Press, 1999.

• The Cambridge Companion to Henry James. Cambridge, 1998.

• Oscar Wilde: New Century Views. Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Recent Articles

• "'Whose Jewish?' Some Asian American Writers and the Jewish-American Literary Canon." MQR. Winter, 2003.

• "Lessons Out of School: T.S. Eliot's Jewish Problem and the Making of Modernism." Modernism/Modernity. Fall, 2003.

• "Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust." Gay and Lesbian Quarterly. Fall, 2002. Reprinted (with some revisions) in Boyarin, Itzkovitz, and Pelligrini, eds. Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Columbia University Press, 2004.

• "On Different Differences, or, Reopening the Canon of Worms." Textual Practice. Winter, 2002.

• "How Now, Middlebrow?" Raritan 20. Spring, 2001.

• " The Affect of the Market: Economic and Racial Exchange in The Searchers." American Literary History . Fall, 2000.

• "Filling in the Blankness: A Response to Thomas Ferraro." American Literary History. Fall, 2000.

• "Modernism's Libido." Raritan 18. Spring, 1999."

• "Angels, Monsters, and Jews: Intersections of Queer and Jewish Identity in Kushner's Angels in America." PMLA. Winter, 1998.

• "From Spellbound to Vertigo: Hitchcock and the American Fate of Psychoanalysis." In Freedman and Millington, eds. Hitchcock's America. Oxford University Press, 1999.

  
  

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B.A. English, Northwestern University, 1977

M.Phil, Yale University, 1980

PhD. English Literature, Yale University, 1985