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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Why Boycotts Are the Devil: Martha Nussbaum Tells it Like it Is

In an essay in this summer's Dissent (published online in advance of the print version),…

Imagining Jewishness

In his review of Michael Chabon's new novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Nathan Englander's The Ministry…

Jewish Haiku For You

Yesterday a friend forwarded me an email she had received from her Catholic mother, who…

Sexy or Not?: In Bed With Jews and Evangelicals

As indicated by this article in today's Jerusalem Post, the verdict is not out on whether…

How Many Jews Does It Take To Change a Lightbulb?

My roommate is my newest blogging muse. She delights in feeding me information that I…

The Root of All Evil: Don’t Bite Too Hard

This afternoon I ran into a friend of mine, and we somehow got into a…

Mind Your Own Shoah Business

Eric J. Sundquist, mega rockstar of American literary criticism, was recently awarded a Mellon Foundation…

Al Jazeera, Dr. Ruth, and Jewish Disco Queens: A Kosher Combination

I get a weekly email from the Forward, which I do not open unless I am…