Other Writing
Creative Nonfiction
“To Thine Own Self Be True,” The Moth Radio Hour
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“Never Again,” The Moth Podcast
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“Grab, Snatch,” Cleaver Magazine
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“Fertile Ground,” Take Magazine
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“How to Survive a Crush,” The Morning News
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“Father’s Day with Shakespeare,” The Washington Post
“Why I Became an English Professor: For a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Shakespeare is a Refuge,” Lilith
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Humor Writing
“I am Lady Macbeth, and Your Facebook Post About Your Kid’s Early Acceptance to Harvard Really Pisses Me Off,” co-written with Caroline Bicks (2019), McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas, (TarcherPerigee/Penguin and Scribe)
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“Letters to Santa Written by Shakespeare Characters,” co-written with Caroline Bicks. Reprinted in The Folger Institute Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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“Willslist,” co-written with Caroline Bicks (2009), McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Selected Academic Writing*
Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage (Routledge)
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“Jessica’s Jewish Identity in Contemporary Feminist Novels”
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“Lady Macbeth’s Breasts,” Kill Shakespeare
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Hermione’s Suspicious Body: Adultery and Superfetation in The Winter’s Tale
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Jephthah’s Kin: The Sacrificing Father in The Merchant of Venice
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*For additional academic writing, please visit my WPI faculty page
