Judith Lewin

Associate Professor (Ph.D. Princeton)
Comparative Literature

Contact Information:  

ON LEAVE Winter, 2012

Office: Humanities 113B
Phone: 518.388.6077
E-mail: lewinj@union.edu


TEACHING AND INTERESTS

Eighteenth- to twentieth-century continental literature, especially the Victorian novel; women's and gender studies; Jewish Women's Fiction; genre studies, such as gothic, horror, detective fiction, governess novels, and recently the Jewish graphic novel.

 

 

AWARDS

Scholar in Residency. Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Spring, 2008.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Prof. Lewin's publications are concerned with the issue of gender and representation, especially of the Jewish woman in nineteenth-century literature. Book Projects: Literary Jewesses and Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women: A Dynamics of Identification and Jewish Women's Fiction: From Glikl to Goodman. She completed a scholar in residency at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in the Spring term of 2008 focusing on the latter project.

 

"Jewish Women Writers." The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Ed. Judith Baskin. Cambridge UP. (Forthcoming Summer, 2011).

Lewin has published three articles about various aspects of the Jewish character Rebecca in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe that appear in ANQ 19.1 (2006): 27-33; Jewish Culture and History 8.1 (2006): 29-48 and Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 10 (2005): 178-212.

"The Sublimity of the Jewish Type: Balzac's belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene aux camelias,"Jewish Cultural Studies: Expression, Identity, and Representation ed. Simon J. Bronner (Oxford, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008)

"Transgressive Mobility, Gender and Jewish Patronage: The Case of Ludwig Robert's Die Tochter Jephthas," Jewish Culture and History 10.1 (2008): 59-86.

"Diving into the Wreck: Binding Oneself to Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Women's Fiction," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 26. 3 (2008) 

"Semen, Semolina and Salt Water: The Erotic Jewess in Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess(1998)," Jews & Sex. ed. Nathan Abrams. (Nottingham, UK: Five Leaves Press, February 2008).