Current Research
"Antirealism in Post-Holocaust Women’s Drama"
A study of Barbara Lebow's A Shayna Maidel (1983) and Diane Samuels' Kindertransport (1995), with emphasis on non-realist elements, including imagined encounters within an otherwise traditional narrative and box set. To be published as a chapter in The Oxford University Press Handbook of Jewish Literature.
"Holocaust Survivors and the Liminal Jew in Early 1950s Film Noir"
An exploration of The House on Telegraph Hill (Robert Wise, 1951) and The Glass Wall (Maxwell Shane, 1953), two noir films that address -- directly or indirectly -- US cultural tensions over post-World War II immigration. In particular, the study pairs discussion of the hybridity of film noir genre and style with the liminal position of the Holocaust refugee, particularly that of the Jewish survivor.
A study of Barbara Lebow's A Shayna Maidel (1983) and Diane Samuels' Kindertransport (1995), with emphasis on non-realist elements, including imagined encounters within an otherwise traditional narrative and box set. To be published as a chapter in The Oxford University Press Handbook of Jewish Literature.
"Holocaust Survivors and the Liminal Jew in Early 1950s Film Noir"
An exploration of The House on Telegraph Hill (Robert Wise, 1951) and The Glass Wall (Maxwell Shane, 1953), two noir films that address -- directly or indirectly -- US cultural tensions over post-World War II immigration. In particular, the study pairs discussion of the hybridity of film noir genre and style with the liminal position of the Holocaust refugee, particularly that of the Jewish survivor.