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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One Painter’s Trash is an Electrician’s Treasure: Bringing Home the Bacon

I used to live in Irvine, California, which is a relatively nice place that is…

What Would Rashi Say About Drag Queens?

One of the things I have always loved about Judaism is its dynamic, evolving nature—rich…

Fathers, Sons, and Bad Jokes

My dissertation advisor — we'll call him Dr. S from Purdue University — just arrived this…

Giuliani a Jew?

According to an article in the Jerusalem Post today, Rudy Guiliani has campaign organizations set…

One of These Jews is Not Like the Other

"All men are Jews," Bernard Malamud once said. According to French philosopher and novelist Maurice…

The Crime of Being Jewish

Earlier this week, the name of Daniel Pearl was added to the Holocaust Memorial Wall…

Jolie’s Clever Strategy

So Angelina Jolie is going to play the wife of Daniel Pearl in the upcoming…

If you want to be cool, you will read . . .

For the last hour I've been debating on whether or not to post another blog…