Scholarship and Biography

I am a scholar of early modern literature and culture. My research focuses on intellectual, cultural, and literary encounters between Jews and Christians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. My books include Milton and the Rabbis: Hellenism, Hebraism, and Christianity (Columbia UP, 2001); Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (U Penn P, 2004); and Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England (U Penn P, 2013). My current research is on the early modern English Bible, from Tyndale to the King James Version, and rise of Jewish learning in England.

Honors

Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies
University of Connecticut (United States, Storrs), 2012-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017
Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair, Bread Loaf School of English
Middlebury College (United States, Middlebury (village)), 2014
Ruth Meltzer Fellow, Katz Center for Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania (United States, Philadelphia), 09/2010-05/2011
Salo W. Baron Prize for Book in Judaic Studies
American Academy for Jewish Research (United States, Ann Arbor) - AAJR, 2002
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Katz Center for Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania (United States, Philadelphia), 09/1999-05/2000
Fulbright Fellowship
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1989-1990

Organizational Affiliations

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of English, Department of English, Brandeis University

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Brandeis University Administration, Brandeis University

Education

Yale University
Ph.D.
University of Cambridge
M.Phil.
Princeton University
B.A.