Lewin article accepted

An article based on presentations by Judith Lewin, assistant professor of English and member of the programs in Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies, has been accepted for publication in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, to appear in summer 2008. 

Lewin presented papers last year at the Association for Jewish Studies and the Modern Languages Association conferences on contemporary Jewish American women writers, in particular Dara Horn and Ruchama King. Lewin's journal article is titled "Diving into the Wreck: Binding Oneself to Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Women's Fiction."

In addition, Lewin's paper for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in fall 2005 is the basis for her chapter, "The Sublimity of the Jewish Type: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene aux Camélias," to appear in the collection, Jewish Cultural Studies: Expression, Identity and Representation, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Oxford, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008).