Boston University Professor Alexandra Herzog will present “Transgender Identity and Homoerotic Anxiety in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Short Stories” on Thursday, February 2, 2017, at 12:30pm in the Dodd Research Center (room 162) as part of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life’s Mittelman Faculty Colloquium Series and co-sponsored by Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. The discussion is open to all, and a kosher lunch will be served.
Professor Herzog will explore Isaac Bashevis Singer's treatment of transgender characters and his queer representation of gender performance and sexual identity. Using selected short stories, Dr. Herzog will argue that, while Singer is at ease writing about transgender identity, androgyny, and cross-dressing, he expresses real anxiety when it comes to same-sex relationships.
Alexandra Herzog specializes in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture, Yiddish Literature, American Studies, and Comparative Literature. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and teaches in the Core Curriculum and in Jewish Studies at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.
For more information, contact: Aaron Rosman at 860-486-2271 aaron.rosman@uconn.edu