Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Religion; Jewish Studies Program, past chair
"From Jesus to Shylock: Feminist Views of Christianity's Jews," Harvard Theological Review (under revision).
"Christ's Passion: Homoeroticism and the Origins of Christianity," The Passion of Christ, Timothy Beal and Tod Linafeldt, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
"Gender Issues," Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Does Atrocity Have a Gender? Women in the SS," Lessons and Legacies, Jeffry M. Diefendorf (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004).
"Gender and Agency in the Feminist Historiography of Jewish Identity," Journal of Religion, vol. 43, no. 4 (2004).
"Theological Bulimia: Christianity and Its Dejudaization," in After the Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences, Michael Berenbaum and Shawn Landres, eds. (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004).
"Family Celebrations as the Site of Transmission of Jewish Identity: A Feminist View of Gender and Jewish Holidays, Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie 18 (2003).
Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (1998).
"Orange on the Seder Plate," The Women's Passover Companion (2003).
"Genre et Historiographie Juive," Raisons Politiques: Etudes de Pensée Politiques (Paris: Winter, 2003).
"Victims and Heroes: Gender Stereotyping in Scholarship on the Holocaust," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, (Hebrew University, 2002).
"Emanuel Levinas in Feministischer Perspektive," Kirche und Isreal vol.15, No.1.
Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Judaism
Women and Religion