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Judith Lewin, professor of English

Judith Lewin

Associate Professor of English
Chair of the English Department
Director of General Education
Karp Hall 113
lewinj@union.edu
Pronouns
she/her/hers
English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, Religious Studies

Research interests

Jewish Women’s Fiction; Jewish graphic novels; nineteenth-century literature, especially the Victorian novel; women’s and gender studies; and genre studies, including gothic, mystery, epistolary and experiments in form.

Publications

“Allegra Goodman,” in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ed. Linda De Roche, 4 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2021, pp. 456-8.

“Teaching Jewish American Women’s Writing,” in Teaching Jewish American Literature. eds. Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubenstein, MLA Options for Teaching. Modern Language Association, 2020, 198-207.

“Still Here/The Imperial Wife.” A Review Essay in the journal East European Jewish Affairs. 46.3 (2016): 478-480. Special Issue: The New Wave of Russian Jewish American Culture.

“Literature: Women Writers (Europe and North America).” The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. ed. Judith Baskin. Cambridge UP, 2011, 398-99.

“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, 239-71.

“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): 48-67.

“Semen, Semolina and Salt Water: The Erotic Jewess in Sandra Goldbacher’s The Governess,” Jews & Sex. ed. Nathan Abrams. (Nottingham, UK: Five Leaves Press, 2008): 88-100.

“Jewish Heritage and Secular Inheritance in Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 19.1 (2006): 27-33. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, ed. Kathy Darrow, Gale Group, 2011.

“The ‘Distinction of the Beautiful Jewess’: Rebecca of Ivanhoe and Scott’s Marking of the Jewish Woman,” Jewish Culture and History 8.1 (2006): 29-48.

“Legends of Rebecca: Ivanhoe, Dynamic Identification and the Portraits of Rebecca Gratz,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues 10 (2005): 178-212.

Resource Links:

Williams College Writing Guides
Schaffer Library

Additional media

Academic credentials

B.A., Brown University; Ph.D., Princeton University