 Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature,
Department of English and Jewish Studies Program
Ph.D., 2000, University of California-Berkeley;
B.A., 1993, University of Michigan
Dr. Jelen is an assistant professor of English and Jewish Studies. Her field of specialization is modern Jewish literature and she teaches courses on American Jewish Literature, The Literature of the Holocaust, Modern Hebrew Literature, Gender and Jewish Literaure, as well as an Introduction to Jewish Literature. She is currently a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Jewish Studies where she is completing a book on the first modern Hebrew woman writer,
entitled Intimations of Difference: The Hebrew Fiction of Dvora Baron. Dr. Jelen is also currently co-editing two volumes of essays: Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron's Fiction and History and Literature: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.
Dr. Jelen can be reached at sjelen@umd.edu.
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