Leah Garrett - School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Position
Professor
Loti Smorgon Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture
Phone
61-3-9903 5010
Address
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Level 8, Building H
Caulfield Campus
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Location
Building H, 8th Floor, Caulfield Campus
Personal History
I moved to Australia in April, 2008 from Colorado where I was an Associate Professor of Jewish Literature at the University of Denver. I was born in New York and grew up in Niger, West Africa and Massachusetts. I attended graduate school in literary studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary completing my PhD in 1999. In the US I received two major research fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, and an Academy of Learned Sciences Research Fellowship.
Current Research
I am currently researching a book on postwar Jewish American literature and culture.
Major Publications
Books
A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz and the Legacy of Der Tannhauser. Forthcoming September 2011, Purdue University Press
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories by Lamed Shapiro. Editor Yale University Press, 2007.
Journeys beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Peer Reviewed Essays
“Dazed and Confused: Lamed Shapiro’s New York Stories”, Studies in American Jewish Literature. September 2011.
“Just One of the Goys: Postwar Jewish American Literature”, AJS Review. December 2010.
“The Kvetcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger and Questions of the American Jewish Canon,” in Beyond the Modern Jewish Canon: Arguing Jewish Literature and Culture, A Festschrift in Honor of Ruth R Wisse. Harvard University Press, 2008.
“Lamed Shapiro's Life and Work,” in The Cross and Other Jewish Stories. Ed. Leah Garrett. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2007.
“Cynthia Ozick's Envy: A Reconsideration”, Studies in American Jewish Literature. Summer 2005.
Landscape in the Jewish Imagination. In Studying Cultural Landscapes. Eds. Iain Robertson and Penny Richards. London: Edward Arnold Publishers. Published February 2003.
“Sabotaging the Text: Tannhäuser in the Works of Heine, Wagner, Herzl and Peretz", Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 9.1. Fall 2002. pp. 34-52.
“The Jewish Robinson Crusoe”, Comparative Literature 54.3. Summer 2002. pp. 215-228.
Yiddish Immigrant Novels and the Perils of Assimilation, Melus 26.3. Fall 2001. pp. 203-29.
Trains and Train Travel in Modern Yiddish Literature, Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 7.2. Published June 2001. pp. 67-88.
The Wandering Jew Comes Home, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. Published Fall 2000.
The Self as Marrano in Jacob Glatstein’s Autobiographical Novels, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, 18.3. Published Fall 1998. pp. 207-223.
The Jewish Don Quixote, Cervantes, 17.2. Published Fall 1997. pp. 94-105.
Book Chapters
‘The Kvetcher in the rye: J.D Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon’, Arguing the modern Jewish canon, Harvard University Press, 2008.
Areas of Research & Supervision
Jewish Culture, American Immigrant History, Zionism and Jewish Literature, Jewish American Literature and Culture.
Teaching
ATS2500/ATS3500 - From Puritans to Sinners: Interrogating the American Tradition
APG4318/ATS3318/ATS4318 - Jewish literature of destruction
APG4321/APG5321/ATS4321 - Jewish literature of subversion
ATS2888/ATS3888 - Race and Class in American Literature