SHEILA E. JELEN curriculum vita

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1 SHEILA E. JELEN curriculum vita Department of English 1605 White Oak Drive University of Maryland Silver Spring MD Susquehanna Hall College Park MD PERSONAL INFORMATION CURRENT POSITION Department: English, University of Maryland College Park (51%) Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies (49%) Rank: Associate Professor Year of appointment: 2001 Year of promotion: 2008 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D. 2001, Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley B.A. 1993, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan Jewish Studies, University of Michigan 2. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES a. Books authored Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 2007) 240pp. edited Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries, co-edited with Michael Kramer and Scott Lerner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, co-edited with Eliyana Adler (University Press of Maryland, 2008) 248pp. Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron s Fiction, co-edited with Shachar Pinsker (University Press of Maryland, 2007) 291pp. b. Chapters in Books: Hebrew Literature of the Holocaust in Holocaust Literature: A Critical Introduction ed. Alan Rosen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 1

2 Introduction: Intersections and Boundaries in Modern Jewish Literary Studies in Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries ed. Sheila Jelen, Michael Kramer and Scott Lerner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), Ethnopoetics in the Work of Ita Kalish and Malka Shapiro: Gender, Popular Ethnography, and the Literary Face of Jewish Eastern Europe in Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries ed. Sheila Jelen, Michael Kramer and Scott Lerner (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), Literature and History: Textual Symbioses in Modern Jewish Studies, with Eliyana Adler, in Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (University Press of Maryland, 2008), Speakerly Texts and Historical Realities: Mendele s Relationship to the Revival of Hebrew Speech, in Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2008), All Writers are Jews, All Jews are Men, in Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron s Fiction ed. Jelen and Pinsker (Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2007), Introduction with Shachar Pinsker, in Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron s Fiction ed. Jelen and Pinsker (Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2007), c. Articles in Refereed Journals i. Essays Salvage Poetics: Agnon s Imaginary Real in A Guest for the Night (Journal of Jewish Identities, January 2014) Women and Jewish Literature, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women s Studies and Gender Issues (Fall, 2008) She Sermonizes in Wool and Flax: Dvora Baron s Literary Vernacular, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Volume 23:2 (Spring 2003), Bialik s Other Silence, Hebrew Studies Volume XLIV, 2003, ii. Invited Review Essays Israeli Children in a European Theater: Amos Oz s A Tale of Love and Darkness and S. Yizhar s Preliminaries, The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 100 (Summer 2011). From an Old World to a New Language: Eastern-European Born Israeli Women s Writing in Hebrew, The Jewish Quarterly Review 96:4 (Fall 2006),

3 Reading and Writing Women: Minority Discourse in Feminist Jewish Literary Studies, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Volume 25:1-2 (Winter/Spring 2005), iii. Invited Book Reviews There Did I know a Delight: Dahlia Ravikovitch in English Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women s Studies and Gender Issues (Forthcoming) From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron in Religion and Literature 43:3(2011): Degenerate Café Conversation and Beyond: Hebrew Writers on Writing JBooks.com Holy Language: Selected Poems of Chaim Nachman Bialik JBooks.com Gender and Jewish Difference: From Paul to Shakespeare, Lisa Lampert, Association for Jewish Studies Review 30:1, Torah of the Mothers: Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts, Handelman and Elper, Tikkun Magazine: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society, Sept/October 2001 Vol. 16 Number 5, iv. Encyclopedia Entries Dvora Baron Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (Forthcoming) David Grossman Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (forthcoming) Dvora Baron EBR: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, 2010) Mary Antin EBR: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, 2010) Aliyah EBR: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter, 2010) Israel Independence Day Revised Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) Memorial Day Revised Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) d. Talks, Abstracts and Other Professional Papers Presented i. Refereed Talks Israeli Salvage Poetics: Gender, Migration, and the Image of Eastern Europe in Israeli Women's Memoirs, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Jewish Theological Seminary, NY, June

4 The Israeli Post-Vernacular: David Grossman s Sholem Aleichem, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, University of Maryland, College Park, June Teaching Israeli Literature within a Jewish Literary Survey: The Paradox of Translation, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, University of Maryland, College Park, June Hassidic Daughters, Literary Ethnographers, or Israeli Writers: Malkah Shapiro and Itah Kalish, Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, Canada, December The American Shtetl: Reflections on the Relationship Between Ethnography and Fantasy in Contemporary American Jewish Fiction, North Eastern Modern Languages Association, Baltimore, MD. March What to Make of Her : Malkah Shapiro in Translation, Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC. December Double Reading Malkah Shapiro and Dvora Baron, Modern Languages Association, Washington, DC. December Graven Images in the Shtetl: Dvora Baron on Photographs, Gender and Hebrew Realism, Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Il. December People of the Voice, Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA. December Oral Texts, Written Voices: Yiddish Devotional Prayers and Dvora Baron s Vernacular Style, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Beersheva, Israel. June She Sermonizes in Wool and Flax: Dvora Baron s Sermons, Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC. December Signature Voices: Bialik s Sefer ha-aggadah, Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Il. December Narrative Poetics of Exile, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Providence, RI. December Baron s Alternative Redemptions, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Los Angeles, CA. December Dvora Baron s Variations on the Talush, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Memphis, TN. June ii. Invited Talks The Shtetl: An Ethnopoetics, University of Maryland Program in Jewish Studies, November

5 Ethnopoetics: The Shifting Contours of the Shtetl or Gender, The Holocaust and Ethnographic Revision, Jewish Studies Colloquium. Columbia University, New York, NY. November Gabriel Preil: Spring in New York, Hebrew Writers in America. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY. March Burying the Books: The End of an Intertextual Possibility, Fartaysht un Farbesert: Translation and Yiddish Culture. University of California, Berkeley, CA. May Reading Yehudah Amichai, Modern Jewish Literatures: Language, Identity and Writing. University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, Philadelphia, PA. May From Paper to Article to Dissertation to Book: How to Make the Most of Graduate Student Work, Graduate Student Working Group. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. February Things as they Are: Dvora Baron and the Mimetic Imperative, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. December Through the Looking Glass: On the Biographical Imperative. Jewish Feminist Research Group. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY. May Genizah: The Culture of Revival and Women s Yiddish Prayers, Center for Jewish Studies. University of Denver, Denver, CO. January Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: A Woman s Modernist Voice, New Modernists at Maryland. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. October e. Exhibits, Performances, Demonstrations and Other Creative Activities i. Conferences and Seminars Organized Absorbing Encounters: Constructing American Jewry in the post- Holocaust Decades. Conference at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, co-sponsored by the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, The College of Arts and Humanities, and Center for the new America, March Co-organizer and Director. Imagined Ethnographies. One-day workshop co-sponsored by CMLT and SLLC. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. February 17, Co-organizer and Director. Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation. Two-day conference at the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. April Co-organizer and director. ii. Translations 5

6 As A Driven Leaf, Dvora Baron, Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 2007), In What World, Dvora Baron, Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 2007), For the Time Being, Dvora Baron, Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron s Fiction ed. Jelen and Pinsker (Syracuse University Press, 2007), Nobody s Story, Orly Castel Bloom, Israel: A Traveler s Literary Companion ed. Michael Gluzman and Naomi Seidman (San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 1996), Rachely s Father Who Was an Actor, Yitzchak Laor, Israel: A Traveler s Literary Companion ed. Michael Gluzman and Naomi Seidman (San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 1996), f. Fellowships and Awards UTAP Award, College Park. Spring Graduate Research Board Semester Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park. Spring Frankel Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Fall 2009 (declined). Iwry Fellowship, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. Summer Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Fall Graduate Research Board, University of Maryland, College Park, Summer Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. Summer Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, CA Wexner Graduate Fellowship for Jewish Professional Training, Wexner Foundation, Columbus, OH g. Invited Colloquia The Berkeley School of Jewish Poetics, participant at symposium in honor of Chana Kronfeld, University of California, Berkeley (March 2014) Religion and Nationalism, Colloquium at Duke University, April

7 Hebrew Modernism, Colloquium with Dan Miron at the University of Florida, Gainesville. March TEACHING, MENTORING AND ADVISING a. Courses Taught in the Last Decade: i. General Courses JWST 272: Jewish Literature in Translation (Spring 2004; Fall 2005; Fall 2007; Fall 2008; Spring 2011)(Approximate Enrollment: 35) ENGL 301: Critical Methods in the Study of Literature (Spring 2003; Spring 2006; Spring 2007)(Approximate Enrollment: 27) ii. Specialized Courses ISRL 349Q/JWST 319Q/CMLT 398B/HEBR 498Q Imagining the Other in Israeli Culture (Spring 2014)(Enrollment: 20) ENGL 331/JWST 341 American Jewish Literature: The Transition from Religion to Ethnicity (Fall 2013)(Enrollment: 23) HHUM 106 Honors Humanities Seminar Photography and Literature (Spring 2013) (Enrollment: 19) ENGL 428X Honors Seminar Photography and Literature (Fall 2012)(Enrollment: 12) CMLT 788E/SLLC 698 Colloquim Facilitator Ethnography and the Humanities (Fall 2012) (Enrollment:11, Attendees:50) CMLT 498T/JWST 429L/ISRL 449L/HEBR 498L/ENGL 479T Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation (Spring 2012) ENGL 278J/JWST 319 Jewish American Literature (Spring 2002)(Approximate Enrollment: 15) ENGL 348/JWST 419/WMST 348/JWST 678 Women and Jewish Literature (Spring 2007; Spring 2009; Spring 2011)(Approximate Enrollment: 35) ENGL379/JWST 419 Jewish American Literature (Fall 2005; Fall 2007)(Approximate Enrollment: 35) ENGL 379/JWST 419 Representing the Holocaust (Spring 2004; Fall 2008; Fall 2011; Fall 2012)(Approximate Enrollment: 35) JWST 478 Exile and Homecoming in Modern Israeli Literature (Texts in Hebrew) (Fall 2002; Spring 2008)(Approximate Enrollment: 5) JWST 419 A History of Modern Hebrew Literature: (Spring 2002) (Approximate Enrollment: 10) 7

8 JWST 419/WMST 498 Women and Jewish Literature (Fall 2003) (Approximate Enrollment: 15) ENGL 749/JWST 678 The Ethics of Representation and the Literature of the Holocaust (Fall 2002; Spring 2006; Spring 2009)(Approximate Enrollment: 15/8) iii. College Honors HON 229J/JWST 219: Ethnic Conundrums: Is there an American Jewish Literature? (Fall 2003; Spring 2008; Fall 2011)(Approximate Enrollment: 15) iv. Independent Studies CMLT 699 ha-shiloah: The Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Spring 2012) (Enrollment 1) HONR 379 The Problem of Evil) (Spring 2012) (Enrollment 1) JWST 499 Trends in Jewish Liturgy (Fall 2011) (Enrollment 1) CMLT 899 Theories of Trauma (Spring 2010) (Enrollment: 1) JWST 699 Non-Ashkenazi Jewish Women s Memoirs (Fall 2008)(Enrollment: 1) ENGL 699 Narratives of Return: American Perspectives on the Holocaust (Spring 2003)(Enrollment: 1) ENGL 699 American Jewish Writers (Spring 2002) (Enrollment: 1) JWST 499 Representing the Holocaust (Winter 2001) (Enrollment: 1) b. Course or Curriculum Development I have developed all courses listed above in the last ten years. c. Advising i. Undergraduate Ilana Sinay (Honors Chair) Current Logan Blizzard (Honors Chair) Completed 2012 Annisa Liu (Honors Chair) Completed 2009 Aliza Sollins (Honors Chair) Completed 2005 Joshua Blum (Honors Chair) Completed 2004 ii. Graduate MFA English Leigh Ann Rugerio (Reader) Completed Hannah Baker (Reader) Completed 2006 Jehanne Dubrow (Reader) Completed 2003 MA English (Writing Project) Laura Deffley (Chair) Completed

9 Andrea Vitale (Chair) Completed 2003 Alexis Wilson (Chair) Completed 2003 Aubrey Ludwig (Chair) Completed 2003 Nirmala Menon (Chair) Completed 2003 PhD English Amy Karp (Chair) Completed 2013 Mihaela Moscaliuc (Reader) Completed 2006 David Solomon (Reader/Examiner) Completed 2004 PhD/MA Comparative Literature Nataliya Pratsovyta (PhD Reader/Examiner) Current Noah Fabricant (PhD Chair/Examiner) Current Rachel Jablon (PhD Chair/Examiner) Completed 2012 Rachel Jablon (MA Chair) Completed 2004 Julie Strongson (PhD Reader) Completed 2007 Liora Moriel (PhD Reader) Completed 2003 iii. Other Advising and Mentoring Activities UTAP Carla Davis, Spring 2012 Comparative Literature Core Text Faculty Workshop Advisor, Spring SERVICE a. Professional i. Reviewing and Editing Activities for Agencies Journals Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Indiana University Press, Associate Editor Present. EBR: The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Modern Hebrew Literary Consultant Present. Modern Languages Quarterly. Manuscript Reviewer Jewish Quarterly Review, University of Pennsylvania Press, Manuscript Reviewer Present. Book Manuscripts Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY. Summer Foundation Grant Reviews Israel Science Foundation: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Research Grant Application Reviewer Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Literature Fellowship Applications Reviewer, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, NY, NY. Summer

10 ii. External Reviewer for Promotions Portland State University, Program in Jewish Studies Susquehanna University, English Department iii. Paid Consultancies Visual Literacy and Diversity, participant at week-long Curriculum Transformation International Institute, Department of Women s Studies. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. June Religious Studies, Religious Issues, participant at twoweek-long Curriculum Transformation International Institute, Department of Women s Studies. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. June Theories and Practice of Difference and Commonality, participant at week-long Curriculum Transformation International Institute, Department of Women s Studies. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. June b. Campus i. Departmental/English Director CMLT (2012-Present) Salary Committee (2012-Present) Post-Tenure Review Committee (2014) Teaching Mentor (2012-Present) Center for Literary and Comparative Studies Board (2012- Present) Acting Director CMLT ( ) Undergraduate Studies Committee (2011-Present) Graduate Studies Committee (2011-Present) Graduate Student Placement Committee ( ) Junior Faculty Mentoring (Walter) ( ) Second Year Review Committee (Ontiveros 2009, Walter 2011) Collegiate Council Alternative Representative ( ) Awards Committee ( ) Salary Committee ( ) ENGL 601 Review Committee (2008) Presentation for Honors Thesis Students on Writing Strategies (April 2008) Search Committee, British Modernism ( ) Presentation on Writing Pedagogy for Upper-Level Classes (November 2008) Coordinating Committee ( ) Drafting Committee for APT Guidelines (2005) Honors Evaluation Committee ( ) Graduate Admissions ( ; ) Comparative Literature Admissions Committee ( ) Comparative Literature Transition Committee ( ; ) ia. Jewish Studies Curriculum Committee (2013-Present) Self Study Committee (2012) Chair Advisory Committee (2011-Present) Bible Search Committee ( ) 10

11 Admissions Committee, Masters Program ( ) Scholarship Committee ( ; ; ) Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee ( ; ) Self-Study Committee, Staff and Internal Organization ( ) Hebrew Chair Search Committee ( ) ii. College ARHU Fellowship Committee (2012-Present) Distinguished Dissertation Selection Committee (2012) English Chair Search Committee (2012) Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee (2011) Humanities Center Steering Committee ( ) Middle Eastern Studies Steering Committee (2007) Comparative Literature Steering Committee ( ) iii. University UM Seminars for Teachers, Teaching the Literature of the Holocaust (Spring 2008; Spring 2011) c. Community Service i. Invited Lectures and Community Teaching Gender and Jewish Literature, Temple Emmanuel, Kensington Maryland, February The Band s Visit, Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville Maryland, January The Holocaust in Literature and History: Contemporary American Letters, Temple Emmanuel, Kensington Maryland, February James Journey to Jerusalem, Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville Maryland, January Live and Become, Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville Maryland, January Staying Home: The Art of Immigration, Congregation Tifereth Israel, Washington DC, August Program Faculty, Edgar M. Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, July/August Ushpizin, Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville MD, January Contemporary Israeli Woman Writers, Nextbook, Washington DC, December Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi: Natan Alterman s Stars Outside, Baltimore Jewish Film Festival, Baltimore MD, March

12 The Culture of Revival and the Rhetoric of Death, Kolot, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Philadelphia, PA, February Fiction and Biography: Dvora Baron s The First Day, Skirball Center for Jewish Studies, New York, NY, December Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: The First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer, Center City Kehilla, Philadelphia, PA, January The Jewish Family in Transition: S.Y Agnon s Agunot, Wexner Foundation Alumni Institute, Miami, Fl, February Apples from the Desert: Israeli Women Between Tradition and Modernity, New Israel Fund, Washington, DC, January Born on the Ramparts, Imagining Women in Biblical Narrative, Congregation Tifereth Israel, Washington DC, January A Midwives Tale: The Book of Exodus, Congregation Tifereth Israel, Washington DC, January Abba Kovner: Sloan Kettering. Jewish Literary Festival, DCJCC, Washington, DC, January Yehuda Amichai: In Memorium, Jewish Literary Festival, DCJCC, Washington, DC, January 2002 ii. Learned Societies Association for Jewish Studies National Association of Professors of Hebrew Middle Eastern Studies Association Modern Languages Association North Eastern Modern Languages Association 12