Recent Book
Exclusion, Exile, and the Wandering Jew in Jewish Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. 227 pp.
Essays
"(Re)Imagining Raoul Wallenberg: History, Fiction, and the Meaning of Truth." Across a Broad Horizon: A Festschrift in Honor of Belma Ötüş-Baskett. Ed. Gönül Pultar and Louis Mazzari. Istanbul, 2021. 272-284.
"Ambiguity of Trauma in Narratives of Exile: Memoirs and Fiction by Said, Aciman, and Hemon." Literature, Narrative, and Trauma. Eds. Aylin Atilla, David Waterman, Carlos A. Sanz Mingo. Izmir, Ege University Press, 2019. 127-138.
"Performing Identity: Intersectionality in Three Autobiographical Texts by Women." Interactions 23,1-2 (2014), 207-218.
"Gendered Post/Colonial Carribean Identities: The Challenge of Historical Transformation in Novels by Rhys, Allfrey, and Kincaid." Change and Challenge. Eds. Murat Erdem, Lois R. Helmbold, Attila Silkü, Esra S. Öztarhan. Izmir: Ege University Press, 2012. 371-380.
"Literary, Critical and Theoretical Peregrinations: Geoffrey Hartman, Deconstruction, and the Wandering Jew." A Voyage Through American Literature and Culture Via Turkey: Festschrift for Sam S. Baskett's 90th Birthday. Ed. Nur Gökalp Akkerman. Prepared by Belma Ötüş-Baskett and Oya Başak. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2011. 226-252.
"Modernism, Cosmopolitanism, and Difference in Yvan Goll's Work." Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism. Eds. Şebnem Toplu and Hubert Zapf. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 124-137.
"Border Crossings and Enchantment: Transformations of Ovid's Orpheus in Works by Tennessee Williams and Thomas Pynchon." Metamorphosis: Ovid and Modernity. Eds. Manfred Schmeling, Monika Schmitz-Emans. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 131-142.
Translation of "Zerafa," story by Immanuel Mifsud. In Transcript: European Internet Review of Books and Writing. http://www.transcript-review.org/de/issue/transcript-38-malta/prosa-immanuel-mifsud-zerafa. (English-German translation and translator profile)
"Cultural Identity, History, and National Allegiance: Ludwig Lewisohn's Search for Belonging." Mattoid 55 (2006), 23-35.
"In Search of (a Jewish American Writer's) Biography: Hero and Antihero in Alan Lelchuk's Ziff: A Life?" Literature and Theatre in Crosscultural Encounters. Ed. Regine Rosenthal. Lebanon, NH: Lebanon College Press, 2006. 173-181.
"Trivializing Horror, or Ethics in Holocaust Narrative: D.M. Thomas's Pictures at an Exhibition." ZAA, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 50, 2 (2002): 142-154.
"The Ravenous Wandering Jew: Mordecai Richler's Irreverent Tale of Gursky Im/ migration." Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation / Le Canada et les Pays Nordiques à L'Heure de la Réorientation.. Ed. A. K. Lauridsen. The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS) Text Series, Vol. 14. Aarhus, Denmark: NACS, 1999. 45-57.
"Identity, Difference, and Exile: Demythologizing the Wandering Jew." Komparatistik als Arbeit am Mythos. Eds. Monika Schmitz-Emans & Uwe Lindemann. Hermeia 6. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2004. 275-290.
"William Styron" in Holocaust Novelists: Dictionary of Literary Biography 299. Ed. Efraim Sicher. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2004. 331-339.
"Inventing the Other: Ambivalent Constructions of the Wandering Jew/ess in 19th Century American Literature." Representations of Jews Through the Ages. Studies in Jewish Civilization 8. Eds. Leonard Jay Greenspoon and Bryan F. Le Beau. Omaha, NE: Creighton UP, 1996. 171-188.
"Reinscribing the Other: Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Heym, Kafka, and Werfel." Carleton Germanic Papers (Ottawa, Canada), 24 (1996): 127-153.
"Immigrants' Daughters: Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, and the Democratic Self." Democracy and the Arts in the United States. Ed. Alfred Hornung, Reinhard R. Doerries, and Gerhard Hoffmann. American Studies 73. München: Wilhelm Fink, 1996. 219-226.
"Memory and the Holocaust: Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Bellarosa Connection." Saul Bellow at Seventy-Five: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Gerhard Bach. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1991. 81-92; also in The Critical Response to Saul Bellow. Ed. Gerhard Bach. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1995.
"The Cultural Work of American Jewish Immigrant Autobiographies." The Future of American Modernism: Ethnic Writing Between the Wars. Ed. William Boelhower. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1990. 152-175.