Education

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2008
MA, Brandeis University, 1998
Laurea Summa Cum Laude, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 1995

Specialization

   • Holocaust Studies
   • Jewish Fiction, Autobiographies and Film
   • Jewish Literature and Thought
   • Jewish Diaspora - Europe and America: History, Literature, and Cultural Productions
   • Women's Memoirs
   • Feminist and Psychoanalytical Approaches to Western Cultural Production

Courses

   • The Holocaust through Literature and Film
   • "Rhapsody in Schmaltz:" 20th-Century Jewish American Literature, Film and Pop Culture
   • Women and Shoah Memory, Memoirs and Memorials
   • At Home in the Shtetl: Pre-War Jewish Life through Literature
   • Fictional Memory: Women's Autobiographies and the Definition of the Self
   • Melting Identities: The Formation of a Jewish-American Identity
   • Family Matters: Twentieth-Century Jewish Women Remembering Family and/as History
   • Great Books of the Western World (II): Europe - From Enlightenment to Disenlightenment - A Postmodern Approach
   • Diasporas: Jews and Other Immigrants Writing Their American Story

Accolades

   • 2017 CURT C. AND ELSE SILBERMAN FELLOWSHIP FOR FACULTY from the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC).
   • INTERNATIONAL WILL EISNER COMIC INDUSTRY AWARD FOR BEST SCHOLARLY ACADEMIC WORK for the volume Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, Sarah Lightman editor (2015).
   • 2015 USC’s PROVOST GRANT RECIPIENT (2015).
   • PETER AND BONNIE MCCAUSLAND FELLOW OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (2014). 
   • English Department's Teacher of the Year Award, 2013
   • Forence Home Award for Feminist Scholarship from Modern Language Association Women's Caucus, 2012
   • University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend Award, 2011
   • Josephine Abney Award in Women's and Gender Studies, 2010
   • Honorable Mention for the Carolyn Heilbrun Award, 2008-2009
   • The National Foundation for Jewish Culture and The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish         Studies, 2007-2009
   • Blanksteen Fellowship in Jewish Studies, 2006-2007

Publications

   • South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home - A memoir. South Carolina University Press, forthcoming 2024.
   • Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma. Brandeis University Press, 2013.
   • “Funny Professors, Serious Lessons: An Analysis of the Image of Jews as Academics in Film,” F.K.Schoeman and Christian Anderson. Forthcoming in Jewish Film & New Media.
   • “Between Jew and Nature: Tracing Jewish Ethics in the Ecological Imagination of Bernard Malamud’s Dubin’s Lives” in Studies in American Jewish Literature, volume 38, Number 1 (March 2019): 47-75.
   • "Natalia Ginzburg, Clara Sereni, Lia Levi: Jewish Italian Women Recapturing City, Family and National Memory," forthcoming in The European Journal of Women's Studies.
   • "The JAP, the Yenta and the Mame in Aline Kominsky Crumb's Graphic Imagination" The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge University Press) June 2012.
   • "Nightbirds, Nightmares and the Mothers' Smile: Art and Psychoanalysis in Sarah Kofman's Life-Writing." Women in French Studies, 2011.
   • "Helena Janeczek's Lessons of Darkness: Uncharted Paths to Shoah Memory through Food and Language." Contemporary Women Writers (Oxford University Press) Fall 2011.
   • "Challenging (Jewish) Invisibility: Natalia Ginzburg, Lia Levi and Clara Sereni Reinterpreting City, Family and Memory," forthcoming in the volume Performing Pasts, Inventing Selves: History and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Writing, Philippe Codde, Vivian Liska, Gert Buelens, and Kristiaan Versluys eds. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011.
   • "DOWN, DOWN AND WITHIN! The Superpowers of Jewish Women's Graphic Memory," contributed to the catalogue for the exhibition "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women" (The Jewish Forward) 2010.
   • "Indispensabile naturalezza: Una conversazione con Federica K.Clementi" in the volume Wyslawa Szymborska, Opere. Pietro Marchesani, ed. Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizioni, 2008. (Conversation with the author)
   • "'Shoah Delle Donne': Famiglia e Esperienza Personale nella Letteratura Femminile della Shoah" ["'Women's Shoah:' Family and Personal Experience in Female Shoah Literature"] in Tra Storia e immaginazione: gli Scrittori ebrei di lingua italiana si raccontano. Hanna Serkowska, ed. Krakow, Poland: Wydawnictwo RABID, 2008.

In Edited Volumes

   • “We Are No Anne Frank. And Yet…” in Creating under Covid, ed. Judith Tydor-Schartz. Bar-Ilan University, Israel: The Finkler Institute of Holocaust Studies, 2020; 131-32.
   • “An Academic Autobiography in Seven Uneasy Vignettes,” in Her Story, My Story? Writing about Women and the Holocaust, eds. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer. Bern, Sweitzerland: Peter Lang, 2020; 235-247.
   • “Of Mice and Women” in Jewish Women’s Comics: Borders and Bodies, Andrea Greenbaum et al. eds.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019. (Forthcoming)
   • “Federica K. Clementi on Aline Kominsky-Crumb,” in Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women.Sarah Lightman ed. New Jersey: McFarland, 2014. Graphic Details won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award 2015.
   • “Introduction,” “Discussion Questions,” and “Exercises” for Art Spiegelman's MAUS: A Survivor's Tale. The Carolina Reader. 1rst, 2nd, 3rd eds. Hayden McNeil, 2014: 134-142.

Mass Media

   • “The End of the Holocaust: Looking on from Far away” - in The FreeTimes, April 15, 2020. (Distribution reach: 2.000.000)
   • “Teaching the Holocaust in the South after Charlottesville” in The Daily Kos, August 11, 2018.
   • “Antisemitism: Paving the Path to Genocide,” in The State newspaper, Special Supplement from the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission, April 6 (2018) 4-5.
   • “Describing the Indescribable: ‘Holocaust’ and Its Meaning” in The State, A Special Supplement from the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission, April 12 (2015) 5 and 23.
   • “‘How Could This Have Happened?’: Trying to Understand the Holocaust” in The State, A Special Supplement from the Columbia Holocaust Education Commission, April 13 (2014) 6-7.