Scholarship and Biography

Holocaust Studies, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature, Trauma and Literature, Twentieth-Century Poetry, Confessional Poetry, Pedagogy, Teaching of Writing,

Honors

CORST Essay Prize for Interdisciplinary Work in Psychoanalysis
American Psychoanalytic Association (United States, New York) - APsaA, 2010
Newman Fund Grant: the Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
Whiting Foundation (United States, Brooklyn), 2011
Fulbright Scholar: Professor of American Culture
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2013-2014
Norman Foundation Grant
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2015
CLUE+ Research Fellowship
VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands, Amsterdam) - VU, 2016-2018

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emerita and Research Professor of English, Department of English, Brandeis University

Education

Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Ph.D.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
M.A.
Boston College
B.A.