Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1996-Present) 

• Professor

• Email: Mtwill@iup.edu 

• Director of Literature and Criticism Doctoral Program

• Vice-President of the Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1947

• Accolades: 

  • Heiges-Lamberski Experimental Education Award (Center for Teaching Excellence (2022) 

  • Space Between Conference Essay prize (for “Staging Nineteenth Century Jewish Literary and Religious Culture in the Face of Disaster”) (2019) 

  •  Space Between Conference Essay prize (London, UK for "Deadly Iniquities: Yiddish Writers Respond to the Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the USSR.” (2014) 

Education: 

• Rutgers University (1996)

  • Ph.D. in English Literature 

    • Dissertation: "Disfiguring Consolations: Tennyson and the Elegiac Tradition"

• Rutgers University (1991)

  • M.A. in English Literature

• University of Pennsylvania  

  • B.A. in English, B.S. in Psychology (Biological Basis of Behavior)

Recent Publications: 

• Mysticism and Romanticism in Interwar and Holocaust Yiddish Literature (In Progress)

• “Helen MacInnes’s While Still We Live: Gender, Secret Agents, and National Ethics.” In Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024: 63-83.

• “Holocaust Poetry and Literary History: Abraham Sutzkever’s Prophetic Mode of Witnessing.” The CEA Critic 81.2 (Spring/Summer 2019): 164-179.

Research and Teaching Interests: 

• Poetry (Classical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Hebrew, Yiddish, International), Global Literature, Literary History and Theory, Jewish Literature and Theory, Travel Writing, Composition Theory, Bible and Literature, Short Story