Selected Publications, Articles & Presentations

Selected Publications:

"Imperial Englishness in Julia Frankau's ‘Book of the Jew,'" Prooftexts, forthcoming

"Beyond Deronda?: Victorian Studies and Jewish Chronicles." Invited and peer reviewed article. Literature Compass 5 (Nov. 2008): 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00586.x

"Converting Trilby: Du Maurier on Englishness, Jewishness, and Culture." Nineteenth-Century Literature 58:1 (June 2003): 75-108

Selected Presentations:

Invited Panelist, "Jewishness, Empire, and the ‘English Fairytale," American Comparative Literature Conference, Harvard University, March 2009

Co-Chair and Moderator, "The Art and Culture of Male Friendship" Panel, NAVSA, Yale University, Nov. 2008

Invited talk, "Victorian Jews for Jesus: Englishness and the Conversion Plot," Harvard Humanities Center, Victorian Series, Oct. 2007

"Englishness and Jewishness: the ‘Vertical Community' of the Nation," International Conference on Anti-Semitism and English Culture, University of London, July 2007

"Consuming Cosmopolitanism in George Du Maurier's Trilby," Northeast Victorian Studies Conference, Harvard University, March 2007

Moderator, "Eliot's Sympathy Unveiled" Panel, NAVSA, University of Virginia, Sept., 2005

"Cultural Englishness: National Belonging in Trollope and Beyond," NAVSA, University of Toronto, Oct. 2004

"Cultural Conversion in George Du Maurier's Trilby." Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Chicago, April 2003

Panel Chair, Organizer, and Presenter, "Jewishness and Englishness in 19th and 20th Century British Literature.: Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, Oct. 2002

"‘A Discarded Garment'?: Jewishness, Englishness, and Conversion in Julia Frankau's Novels." Twentieth Century Jewish Women Writers Conference, Brunel University, July 2002

"Anxieties of Influence: Converting Englishness to Jewishness in Daniel Deronda." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, Oct. 2001