Aug 20, 2019 By: yunews
Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the writing center at the Israel Henry Beren Campus, has had a busy year of publishing and presenting.
New Course
- 鈥淭he Truth About Lies: Unreliable Narratives in Literature and Law,鈥 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Finalist for a Lambda Literary and Triangle Publishing Award (and got a starred review in )
- Excerpt of the book is included in a scholarly roundtable in the current issue of
- Nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, given jointly by the Louisville Seminary and the University of Louisville
- A leading Dutch poet, Joost Baars, translated nine poems and published them in the journal Terra
- Project was awarded a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute fellowship
- Poems from this new project have appeared in , , and and will appear in a future issue of Poetry, the premiere American poetry magazine
- Essays about the project appeared on the and blogs
- 鈥淧olitical Poem鈥 appeared in the Persea anthology (edited by Elise Paschen)
- Wrote the Introduction for the reissue of Trace Peterson鈥檚 ground-breaking collection since i moved in
- Named part of the Architects of the Jewish Future speakers series and gave a talk and a class at the Palo Alto JCC
- Invited to be a Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (though had to decline)
- Will be given the Hachmei Lev Award by in November at their Outstanding! NYC 2019 gala
- Organized and read at an Associated Writing Programs Conference Featured Panel, 鈥淐oloring Outside the Gender Binary: How Transgender Poets are Redefining What It Means to Be Human鈥
- Featured reader at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, New York Public Library鈥檚 鈥淪tonewall at 50鈥 series, the Trans Literature Today panel at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and The Emily Dickinson Homestead
- Keynote reader at the Writing By Degrees Biannual Writing Conference at Binghamton University
- Reading at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, to high school students in the Jewish Great Books summer program
- Dozens of invited talks, including a stint as Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Jewish Learning in St. Louis as well as talks at the 25th World Congress of LGBT Jews in Sydney (Australia), Duke University, Brandeis University, Texas A & M, Western Kentucky University and Montclair State University, to name a few places
- Taught a seminar at the Jewish Theological Seminary's summer learning program for rabbis
- Featured on two podcasts, and and subject of another by , 鈥淭rans in the Eyes of God鈥
