Monica Osborne

Monica is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish American Literature at UCLA, where she has taught Jewish American Fiction and a course on the ethics of Holocaust representation. She has written for Studies in American Jewish Literature, Tikkun, Shofar, and Modern Fiction Studies. She has also taught a Bible as Literature class at Purdue University. She is currently working on turning her dissertation--"The Midrashic Impulse: Reading Fiction, Film, and Painting in the Face of the Shoah"--into a book manuscript.

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It’s My Life

Growing up, I experienced countless heated family discussions — there are seven people in my…

Butt of Jokes and Joke of Butts

An article in the New York Times today is a bit booty-obsessed. About five months ago…

If you prick us, do we not bleed?

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" asks Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of…

Jackie Mason For President

About a year or so ago, I got a call from my mother, which is…

Atheism Will Get You Everywhere

This morning I flew down to Boca Raton, Florida for the annual Jewish American and…

Jews, a Real Crafty Bunch

 A post over at Haaretz questions whether there is a proper place for stereotypes. A…

What Do You Get When You Cross a Jewish Diaspora With an Indian Partition?

We don't often think about Jews in India. Well, I don't anyway. But  two years…

A Most Tragic Irony

It seems that one of the professors who was killed in this week's Virginia Tech…