 Current Positions (2009-2010) Lecturer, Program in the Study of Religion, University of California, San Diego • “Introduction to Religion,” lower division lecture course (Spring 2010) • “Hearing Voices,” upper division lecture course (Spring 2009) • “Race and Religion,” upper division lecture course (Winter 2009) Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego • “Moses and Multiplicity,” upper division seminar (Spring 2010) • “Psychoanalysis: Back to Freud and Beyond,” upper division seminar on literary theory (Winter 2009) Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Literature (June 2007)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA (1998-2007)
Dissertation: “Freud’s Moses: Memory Material and Immaterial” Master of Music (M.M.) in Performance (May 1997)
Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT (1996-97)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English Literature (May 1996)
Yale University, New Haven, CT (1992-96)
Academic Honors / Grants
Jewish Studies Grant for project on “Moses, Memory and Identity,” Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University (2007)
Graduate Student Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, UCSD (2004-05)
Dissertation Grant, Literature Department, UCSD (Fall 2003)
Graduate Student Research Grant, Literature Department, UCSD (1999, 2000, 2002)
German Language Fellowship, Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD) (Fall 2000)
Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham University Press, September 1, 2009) Peer-reviewed article, Jewish Studies Quarterly Peer-reviewed article, Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2008) “Review essay: Jewish American Circumcision” (Review of Leonard B. Glick’s Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America and Eric Kline Silverman’s From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision)
Invited essay for peer-reviewed journal, Theology and Sexuality, Vol. 13, No. 3, May 2007 “Sigmund Freud’s Racial Theory of Jewishness”
Invited essay for special issue on “Jews and Race” in Perspectives, the magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Fall 2007). Available: http://www.ajsnet.org/ajsp07fa.pdf “Freud’s Theory of Jewishness: For Better and For Worse”
Invited essay, The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity, ed. Arnold Richards. Jefferson, NC: McFarland (forthcoming, 2010) “Die Simpsons: Auf der Suche nach der Stimme Amerikas”
[“The Simpsons: In Search of America’s Voice”]
Published in Voices Series, Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung, No. 183, Section: Medien, Monday, August 9, 2004, p. 34. Broadcast on Südwestrundfunk, June 11, 2004 “Breathing Traces: A Virtual Archive of Life” (2003)
Published as “Virtuelle Bilder und Doubles mit Hillel Schwartz/Eliza Slavet” in Life Sciences Kunst-Medien, ed. Sabine Flach and Sigrid Weigel. Kromsdorf/Weimar: VDG-Weimar, forthcoming. “Interview with Robert Ashley”
Published in Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, ed. Brandon Labelle and Christoph Migone. Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001, pp. 203-219 Genealogies of Mosaic Memory
Book-length project on re-reading and re-writing Moses- and Exodus-narratives, with particular emphasis on the idea that one can “return” to one’s roots through reading and re-enacting texts. “The Unknown and Unacknowledged: A Response to Jan Assmann and Franz Maciejewski”
In preparation for submission to Psyche (German-language psychoanalytic journal) A Passover Haggadah for the Wicked and Wandering
Edited anew every year since 1999 Lectures / Conference Presentations
“Moses and Paul, Together Again: Universal Differences, Different Universalisms”
Pending, 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA (Dec. 2009) "Reflections on Racial Fever" Invited lecture, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (Nov. 2009) "Reflections on Racial Fever: Discussion with Stanley Cheren, MD" Invited lecture, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley, MA (Oct. 2009) “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through: Moses the Egyptian and the Psychoanalytic Model
of Cultural Discourse”
Wildcard session, “Remembering and Forgetting in the Formation of Religious Subjectivities,” Annual Conference for the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL (Oct. 2008) “Secret Implications, A Presentation on Racial Fever”
Invited presentation, Brown Bag Lecture Series, UCSD Program in Religion (May 2008) “Secret Inclinations: Reconsidering Racial Fever”
Invited paper/presentation, First Princeton Workshop on Jewish Thought, Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University (May 2008) “Exodus: Where We’re From and What’s Left Behind”
10th Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA): “Arrivals and Departures,” Long Beach, CA (Apr. 2008) “Racial Strangeness: Psychoanalysis and the Jewish Question”
Invited lecture, Young Scholars Series, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY (Nov. 2007) “Jewish, Egyptian and/or African: Freud's Moses and its Curious Consequences”
9th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, CA (Nov. 2007) “What We Talk About When We Talk About Freud and Darwin”
“Biologies of the Avant-Garde” (seminar), 9th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, CA (Nov. 2007) “Not So Cut & Dry: Nature & Normalcy in Debates on Neonatal Circumcision & Intersex Genital Surgery”
Annual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, Canada (Oct. 2007) “Freud as a Theorist and Example of the Tensions Between Secularism and Religion”
Invited Presentation, “Race and the Quest for a Secular Jewish Identity,” 3rd Annual Posen Project Conference: Teaching Secular Judaism in the University, Miami, FL (Mar. 2007) “Mired in Materiality: Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Racial Theory of Jewishness”
38th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA (Dec. 2006) “Freud’s Theory of Jewishness: For Better and For Worse” (Invited Lecture)
Invited lecture, Freud’s Jewish World, Center for Jewish History, NY, NY (Dec. 2006) “Tarzan & Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between Edgar Rice Burroughs & Sigmund Freud”
Invited lecture, „Ich Tarzan“ – Menschenaffen und Affenmenschen zwischen Science und Fiction, Zentrum „Geschichte des Wissens,” Universität Zürich, Switzerland (June 2006) “Circumcised Supremacy: Freud’s Final Cut”
Freud’s Foreskin: A Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Most Suggestive Circumcision in History, Annual Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture, New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Dorot Jewish Division, NY, NY (May 2006) “Psychoanalytic Transmissions Beyond Direct Communication”
7th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Chicago, IL (Nov. 2005) “Subjectively Pseudoscientific: Freud’s Racial Theory of Jewishness”
Annual Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Guelph, Ontario, Canada (July 2005) “Mediating Memory: ‘Tradition’ in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism”
Conference on Orality, Literacy and Memory, Rice University, Houston, TX (Oct. 2003) “Inherited Memory: An Examination of Freud’s Lamarckism”
Annual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Atlanta, GA (Oct. 2003) “Breathing Traces: An Aural Archive of Living”
Archiving Modernism Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (June 2003) “Public Disturbances: Noise, Muzak, Art”
Sound Escape Conference, Trent University, Ontario, Canada (June 2000) “Appropriating Harry Partch”
Beyond Babel Conference, Western Humanities Alliance, UCSD (Oct. 1999) “Monotheism and Its Discontents” (Panel organizer)
41st Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA (Dec. 2009) “Exodus: ‘Where We’re Goin’/Where We’re From’” (Seminar-organizer / leader)
10th Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA): “Arrivals and Departures,” Long Beach, CA (Apr. 2008) “Moses and Modernism” (Panel-organizer)
9th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Long Beach, CA (Nov. 2007) Four short presentations at the intersection of psychoanalysis, Jewish identity & minor surgery (Event-Organizer)
Annual Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture, New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Dorot Jewish Division, NY, NY (May 2006) “Modernism and its Mysterious Transmissions” (Panel-Organizer)
7th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Chicago, IL (Nov. 2005) “Occult Abandonment in Modernist Epistemology” (Moderator)
7th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Chicago, IL (Nov. 2005) “Freud, Reiter, and Mayr: Racial Science and Ideology, 1930s-1950s” (Panel-Organizer)
Annual Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Guleph, Ontario, Canada (July 2005) Teaching Experience
Lecturer, Program in the Study of Religion, University of California, San Diego • “Introduction to Religion,” lower division lecture course (Spring 2010) • “Hearing Voices,” upper division lecture course (Spring 2009) • “Race and Religion,” upper division lecture course (Winter 2009) Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego (2003, 2008-2010) • “Psychoanalysis: Back to Freud and Beyond,” upper division seminar on literary theory (Winter 2009) • “History of Criticism,” required literary theory seminar for undergraduate Literature majors (Spring 2008) • “Moses and Multiplicity,” upper division course in Literature / Religion (Spring 2008, Spring 2010) • “Poetics of Everyday Life,” interdisciplinary upper-division seminar in Cultural Studies (Summer 2003) Lecturer and First-year Advisor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University (2006-2008)
• “Moses and Modernity,” upper division interdisciplinary seminar (Fall 2008) • “Memory and Forgetting,” upper division interdisciplinary seminar (Spring 2006 and 2007) Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Art and Design, New School University (2004-2007)
• “Inventing Tradition: Mementos, Memorials & Museums,” Interdisciplinary Core Seminar, Department of Design and Management • “Poetics of Everyday Life,” Senior Seminar, Critical Studies Department • “Innovation,” Interdisciplinary Core Seminar, Department of Design and Management Teaching Assistant, University of California San Diego (1998-2000)
• “Creative Non-Fiction,” and “Introduction to Writing Poetry,” Writing / Literature Department • “Making of the Modern World” (humanities / writing for 1st-year students), Eleanor Roosevelt College Julius, moving still life with commentary and music, video, 13 minutes (2005)
Shown in various small venues in New York City Breathing Traces, sound installation / exhibit of aural archive (May 2003)
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, UCSD Virtualities & Duplicities / Breathing Doubles, sound installation-performance (June 2002)
Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum of Contemporary Art), Berlin, Germany Part of Wissenskünste, a series of artist-theorist performance-lectures, produced by Zentrum für Literaturforschung [Center for Literature Research]; in collaboration with Hillel Schwartz Breathing Traces Berlin, sound installation proposal, Berlin Jewish Museum (2001)
Music to Listen to Traffic By, a relaxation CD for urban dwellers (1999-2000)
Broadcast on Canadian Public Radio, June 2000, as part of the Trent Radio Art Festival Noise, Muzak, Art: The True Story of ‘Drive By Muzak,’ video, 16 minutes (2000)
Coverage of the events surrounding Drive By Muzak, including protests staged by POSSE (Pissed Off Students for Silence While Eating); screened in various small venues Drive By Muzak, public sound installation in food-court (1999)
Featured in Spaced Out: Southern California Vernacular, a curated group show, UCSD Breathing Space, sound installation (computer, sound equipment)
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, UCSD (1999) Employment (other than teaching)
Research Asistant, Secular Culture and Ideas, Posen Foundation, NY, NY (2007)
Coordinator, New Writing Series, UCSD (2001-03)
Archivist, American New Poetry Collection, Special Collections, Geisel Library, UCSD (2001-03)
Production Assistant, A Way With Words; These Days; KPBS Radio, San Diego, CA (1998-99)
Freelance arts / music writer, On Air, KPBS membership magazine, San Diego, CA (1997-98)
Freelance Oboist (1992-2001), New Haven, CT; NY, NY; San Diego, CA
Professional Associations
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Languages
German: non-native fluent
Spanish: good
French: elementary
Biblical Hebrew: currently studying (2008-)
References
Available by request.
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