Peer-Reviewed Research Articles:
Other Publications:
Conference Papers:
- "'He Wanted to Make Them into Educated, Enlightened People': Jewish Immigrants, Acculturation, and Gender Stereotypes in A.D. Oguz's Di fraydenker." Chapter in Jews and Gender: Studies in Jewish Civilization, vol. 32, pp. 135-155. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2021. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=sjc
- "'I now pronounce you Jewish!': Pastor Steven L. Anderson, Genetic Ancestry Tests, and Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories." Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, 4.1, pp. 1-26. Spring 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.26613/jca.4.1.70/html
- "'Now the World Knows': Christian Conspiracist Texe Marrs on Jewish Genetics and the Khazarian Hypothesis." Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, 3.2, pp. 73-90. Fall 2020. (academia.edu link)
- "'The Jews love numbers': Steven L. Anderson, Christian Conspiracists, and the Spiritual Dimensions of Holocaust Denial." Genocide Studies and Prevention, 14.2, Article 6, pp. 44-64. Special Issue: Denial. Sept. 2020. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol14/iss2/6/
- "'And he even knew Hebrew': Language, Gender, and Middle Class Respectability in A.D. Oguz's Di Fraydenker." Journal of the Georgia Philological Association, 9, pp. 10-31. 2019-2020. https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/docs/jgpa-vol-9-2019-20.pdf
- "'Millions of Jews Died in That War… It Was a Bad Time': The Holocaust in Adventures in Odyssey’s Escape to the Hiding Place." Genealogy, 4.3. Special Issue: The Holocaust in Contemporary Popular Culture. Nov. 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/3/4/63/htm
Other Publications:
- Translation: "Forrede" & "Di tates un di kinder" from Chaim Malitz, Di heym un di froy (1918), In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, Spring 2023. https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/fathers-and-their-children
- Book Review: Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe. The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. Reading Religion. August 2021. https://readingreligion.org/books/specter-haunting-europe
- Book Review: Caroline Blyth, Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale: The Lost Seduction (review). The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 34.3 Summer 2022. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/845471/pdf
- Essay: "A Bachelorette F***ing in a Windmill: A Sign of American Christianity in Transition?" Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, 26. September 2019. https://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/a-bachelorette-effing-in-a-windmill/
- Essay: "Holocaust denial and digital 'homes'." MediaCommons Field Guide. June 2019. http://mediacommons.org/fieldguide/content/holocaust-denial-and-digital-%E2%80%9Chomes%E2%80%9D
- Essay: "'We were like cancer patients': Ruth Klüger’s Still Alive and Patriarchal Silencing." pp. 81-83. AJS Perspectives, The Patriarchy Issue. Spring 2019. https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/docs/default-source/ajs-perspectives/ajs_perspectives_patriarchy-web.pdf?sfvrsn=2
- Essay: "On Teaching the History of the Holocaust: A View from the United States." TEACH: Journal of Christian Education, 13.1. 2019. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zbj0wSx0mLa5GNd3Qopcg5ROf65zCZgb/view?usp=sharing
- Book Review: Lucy Bennett and Paul Booth, eds. Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture, published in the Popular Culture Studies Journal. April 2019. http://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Book-Reviews-Section-.pdf
- Book Review: Bruce D. Haynes, The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America, review published in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 48.3. September 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008429819860051a48.3.
- Book Review: Christian Wiese, Cornelia Wilhelm, eds. American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience, published in Reading Religion. September 2018. http://readingreligion.org/books/american-jewry
- Book Review: Joshua Louis Moss, Why Harry Met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love, published in the Journal for Religion, Film, and Media, 5.1. April 2019. https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/169/163
- Book Review: Dorene Koehler, The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland, H-Net Reviews. February 2019. networks.h-net.org/node/167585/reviews/3670993/brittingham-koehler-mouse-and-myth-sacred-art-and-secular-ritual
- Selected, republished in Journal of Festive Studies. https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/view/38/17
- Book Review: Daniel Judson, Pennies from Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money, published in Reading Religion. March 2019. http://readingreligion.org/books/pennies-heaven
- Book Review: Deborah Dash Moore et al., Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People, published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, 40.1. Fall 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.1.0108
- Book Review: Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, Theo D’haen, eds. Crime Fiction as World Literature, review published in Studies in Popular Culture, 42.1. Fall 2019. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ItKyzRIDiUb-CJbBfWveXWu2Gp9V8TvF/view?usp=sharing
- Book Review: Marc Howard Ross, Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory, published in the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 19.1, Article 10. 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1534&context=ijcs
- Book Review: Paul Jackson, Colin Jordan and Britain’s Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler’s Echo, published in The Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 14.1. 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/jstudradi.14.1.0194?seq=1
- Translation: Elyash "There is no freethinker," Yidishes tageblat, April 11, 1918, p.8. & "From freethinking to religion," Yidishes tageblat, August 2, 1918, p.8. In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. (forthcoming)
Conference Papers:
- 5/2023: "What Could I Have Answered?": Leon Kobrin’s Jewish Socialists and Affect in American Yiddish Literature. Georgia Philological Association Annual Conference, May 20, 2023, Macon, GA. Virtual.
- 5/2022: "'Apparently, not everyone knew I was no longer a Jew': Z. Libin's 'We are Yiddish-Speaking Socialists' (1903) in Context." Georgia Philological Association Annual Conference, May 19, 2022, Macon, GA.
- 7/2021: "Antisemitic Christian Conspiracists Denying Antisemitism: A Case Study in Religious Antisemitism, Rhetoric, and Networks." Paper presented at "Antisemitism in Today's America: Manifestations, Causes, and Consequences," at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA). Indiana University-Bloomington. Bloomington, IU. Virtual.
- 2/2021: "COVID-19 Experience and Contemporary Jewry," with Madison Tarleton, University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology. Paper presented at the Conference of the Joint Doctoral Program for Religious Studies, University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology. Virtual.
- 12/2020: "'The soul longs to talk to me': American Yiddish Writers on Spiritualism." Paper presented at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference. Virtual.
- 11/2020: "'Allow Me to Appeal to You for Advice and Guidance': Revisiting the Life and Times of Louis Marshall's Di Yidishe velt." Paper presented at FERMENT: The Yiddish Press in the United States. A Symposium on its 150th Anniversary. Hosted by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University, Atlanta. Virtual.
- 2/2020: "'Picture to yourselves a poor Jewish immigrant': Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856-1943) 'Preaches' to Jewish Immigrants in United States." Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion: Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Athens, GA.
- 12/2019: "Yiddish Journalists and Spiritualism in North America: A Lived Religions Approach to Jews and Contact with the Dead.” Paper presented at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference. San Diego, CA.
- 10/2019: "Mediums and Materialism: Two Yiddish Writers on Spiritualism." Paper presented at the Conference: “Jewish Ghosts: Haunting and the Haunted in Jewish Literature and Culture.” Columbia University and CUNY, Graduate Center. New York, New York.
- 10/2019: "Jewish Women and A Changing America in A. D. Oguz’s Di fraydenker (1922)." Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Symposium on Jewish Civilization, "Jews and Gender: Tradition and Change." Creighton University and University of Nebraska at Omaha. Omaha, NE.
- 10/2019: "For Our City of Baltimore and the South’: The Baltimore Amerikaner in Context." Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, “Jews, Race, and Public Memory.” University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.
- 05/2019: "A.D. Oguz and Language: Representing Hebrew and English in a Yiddish Novel." Paper presented at the Georgia Philological Association Annual Conference. Middle Georgia State University. Macon, GA.
- Award: Vicki Hill Memorial Graduate Recognition Award
- 04/2019: "Freethinking and its Discontents: Popular Yiddish Writers on the Future of American Jewry.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. Washington, D.C.
- PCA/ACA Session Chair: “Representing Religion in Popular Culture.”
- Award: Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant
- 04/2019: "Love in the Time of Jargon: On Translating Yiddish Romance Novels." Paper presented at the Critical Juncture Conference. Emory University. Atlanta, GA.
- 04/2019: "'The Jews love numbers’: Pastor Steven Anderson's Fundamentalist Theology and His Holocaust Denial." Paper presented at the 2019 Conference on Genocide Denial, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.
- 03/2019: "A Romance of Epic Proportions: A. D. Oguz’s Di fraydenker and Impossible Assimilations." Paper presented at the 33rd Annual MELUS Conference. Cincinnati, OH.
- 03/2019: "'There is no freethinker': Popular Yiddish Literature and American Jewish Religiosity in Light of World War I." Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion: Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion. Greenville, NC.
- 02/2019: "1920s Spiritualism and Jewish Writers: The Case of Isaac Ewen (1861-1925) and his Mayne erfarungen mit di spiritualisten," Paper presented at the FSU Graduate Student Symposium. Talahassee, FL.
- 02/2019: "Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, his Yiddish Droshes, and their Translation into English." Paper presented at the University of Alabama Languages Conference. University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL.
- 02/2019: "A Yiddish Middle Ground between North and South?: The short life of the Baltimore amerikaner." Paper presented at the Southern Studies Conference. Auburn University at Montgomery. Montgomery, AL.
- 01/2019: "Unearthing the Varieties of Religious Discourse in Christian Romance Novels." Paper presented at the New Voices Conference. Atlanta, GA. Georgia State University.
- 11/2018: "Golden Ages and Far-Off Lands: Saul Saphire's Historical Romances and the Yiddish Market." Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference. Baltimore, MD.
- 10/2018: "Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, the American Context, and Popular Yiddish Preaching." Paper presented at the Conference on Sermon Studies: “Sermon: Text and Performance.” Montreal, Quebec. https://mds.marshall.edu/sermon_conference/2018/presentations/11/
- 05/2018: Respondent: "Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe: Lithuanian and American Scholars in Conversation." Emory University and Judaica Division Martynas Mazvydas National Library. Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania.
- 02/2014: "Meir Kahane, the JDL, and the Holocaust: Collective Memory, Tragedy, and Renewal," Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association Conference. Indiana University-Bloomington.
- 04/2013: "Max Baer and Boxing: The Performance of Jewish Identity," Midwest American Academy of Religion Conference. Ohio Northern University.
- 02/2013: "One Boxing Baer: Sports History, National Narratives, and the Body as a Spectacle," Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association Conference. Indiana University-Bloomington.
Delivering a paper in costume at a recent conference that took place on Halloween. Conference: "Jews and Ghosts," sponsored by Columbia University and CUNY-Graduate Center. Paper: "Mediums and Materialism: Two Yiddish Writers on Spiritualism."