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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A Modicum of Respect

Last night, as I was lying on my couch watching Sex and the City and…

The Witch Hunt Begins

In the wake of every disaster, we always look for a scapegoat — someone or…

What do Moses, Samuel Jackson, Yul Brynner, and Faulkner Have in Common?

Because I think stuff like this is fun, I've been sitting in on a graduate…

Talkin’ About a Revolution . . .

There's an interesting article in the Village Voice about commemorations of tragic events and the nature…

Virginia Tech Tragedy: Narcissistic Injury

An article in the New York Times mentions mentions that yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech…

Samson the Terrorist: A New Midrash?

The Victoria Philharmonic Choir recently ran a performance of Handel's Samson Oratorio, but with a…

Death Becomes Us, and the Pulitzer

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and it looks like Cormac McCarthy (The Road) is the…

Muslim Taxi-Drivers Say No to Alcohol

According to this article in the Jerusalem Post, Muslim cab-drivers who work the Minneapolis-St. Paul…