Jessica Lang

Education

Ph.D., English, Brandeis University

M.A., English, Washington University in St. Louis

B.A., English, Cornell University

Books

Lang, J., & Cappell, E. (2020). Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. SUNY Press.

Lang, J. (2017). Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press.

Journal Articles

Lang, J. (2013). "The Language of Desire and the Urban Man: Reading Masculinity in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day". The Saul Bellow Journal, 26(1-2). 81-100.

Lang, J. (2012). "Jewish and American, Historical and Fictional: The (Un)ifying Experience of Reading Text". Studies in American Jewish Literature, 31(1). 76-84.

Lang, J. (2010). "Mercy Flynt Morris and Nancy Flynt: A Portrait of Two Connecticut Sisters in the Early Republic". The Massachusetts Review, LI(2). 345-359.

Lang, J. (2010). Retelling the Retold: Race and Orality in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literatures, Culture and Theory, 66. 35-58.

Lang, J. (2009). "'Nothing Remarkable Took Place': Discovering the Flynt Sisters". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 28(1). 165-172.

Lang, J. (2009). "Scratching the Surface: Reading Character in Female Quixotism". Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 51(2). 119-141.

Lang, J. (2009). "The History of Love, the Contemporary Reader and the Transmission of Holocaust Memory". Journal of Modern Literature, 33(1). 43-56.

Lang, J. (2008). "Violence, Redemption and the Shoah: The Role of History in Potok's Early Fiction" . Studies in American Jewish Literature, 27. 69-86.

Lang, J. (2008). "In Exile and At Home: An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein". Contemporary Literature, 49(1). 1-23.

Book Chapters

Lang, J. (2021). "Newark". Philip Roth in Context Cambridge University Press.

Lang, J. (2020). "Troubled Aesthetics: Jewish Bodies in Post-Holocaust Film". In Aarons, V., & Lassner, P. (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture New York, New York. Palgrave Macmillan.

Lang, J. (2019). “Feminism and Gender in Contemporary Jewish American Writing”. The New Jewish-American Literary Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions (p. 24). New York, NY. Cambridge University Press.

Lang, J. (2019). “Narrating the Past in a Different Language: Teaching the Holocaust through Third Generation Fiction”. In Aarons, V., & Levitsky, H. (Eds.), Reflections on Jewish American and Holocaust Literature in the 21st Century (p. 23). SUNY Press.

Lang, J. (2017). “Measure for Measure: Narrative and Numbers in Holocaust Textual Memorials”. Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: The Intergenerational Transmission of Memory, Longing, and Loss (pp. 131-158). Lanham, MD. Lexington Books.

Lang, J. (2016). "Unbound and Un-bodied: Reading Race in Malamud's The Tenants,". Bernard Malamud: A Centennial Tribute (pp. 70-88). Wayne State University Press.

Lang, J. (2016). "Waiting for Moshiach: Reading Absence in Ozick's The Messiah of Stockholm,". In Statlander-Slote, J. (Ed.), Roots of Passion: Essays on Cynthia Ozick (pp. 72-85). Northeast Publishing.

Lang, J. (2013). "The Three-Pronged Dialectic: Understanding Conflict in Chaim Potok's Early Fiction,". In Walden, D. (Ed.), Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity through the Lens of Tradition (pp. 20-29). The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Media Contributions

Lang, J. (2010). "Rebecca Gratz: From Small Town Lancaster to Philadelphia".

Presentations

Lang, J. (2024, January 3). Scholarship on the OTD Experience. Footsteps Conference. New York City: Footsteps.

Lang, J. (2024, December 3). Transforming Appearances: Understanding OTD Storytelling through a Transgender Lens. Association of Jewish Studies. Online: AJS.

Lang, J. (2024, December 3). Dependents and Independence: The Image of the Jewish Mother in OTD Narrative. Association of Jewish Studies. Boston: AJS.

Lang, J. (2024, December 3). OTD (Off the Derekh) Memoirs and Contemporary Jewish Identity. Association of Jewish Studies. Boston: AJS.

Lang, J. (2024, December 3). "Gender and Identity Politics of OTD,” Roundtable: Moderator and Participant. Association of Jewish Studies. Boston: AJS.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Lang, J. (1970,January 1). Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism. AJS Review. Cambridge UP.

Lang, J. (2024,July 3). Teaching Jewish American Literature. MELUS Journal. Oxford UP.

Lang, J. (2024,July 3). A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History. MELUS Journal. Oxford UP.

Lang, J. (2019,January 1). Review of "Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory". Northwestern University Press.

Lang, J. (2018,January 1). Review of "Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature: Memory, Identity, (Post-) Postmodernism". Philip Roth Studies.

Lang, J. (2017,January 1). Book Review: Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination. Oxford University Press: American Literary History.

Lang, J. (2017,January 1). Book Review: Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature: In Different Rooms. Purdue University Press: Philip Roth Studies.

Lang, J. (1970,January 1). The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox. American Jewish History. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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