Publications -- Some Reading Material on Televisual Jewishness

Invited Book Chapters:

“What Seinfeld Begat – Paradoxical Tropes of Jewishness in The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Less Than Kind.” Tranversal 2009. Forthcoming

With Michele Byers. “From Ugly Duckling to Cool Fashion Icon: Sarah Jessica Parker’s Blonde Ambitions.” Shofar. 2007

With Michele Byers. “Something Old is New Again? Postmodern Jewishness on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and The O.C.” in (ed. Brooks, V.)You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture. (London:Rutgers) 2006

“Jews Do Cry – Invisible, Misunderstood and Scorned at York” (Ed. The York Stories Collective) York Stories, Women in Higher Education, TSAR Press, 2000, 229-236.


Refereed Publications:

With Michele Byers. “Beyond Binaries and Condemnation: Opening New Theoretical Spaces in Jewish Television Studies” in Culture, Theory and Critique 46:2 October 2005

“Does He Actually Say the Word Jewish?” – Jewish Representations in Seinfeld” in The Journal for Cultural Research, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2003, 387-404.

Non Refereed Publications (Narrative/Spoken Word)

“A Knish on a Plate of Scones – How To Become Canadian” in Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 2003, 177-180.

“Crash History Lesson” in The Queen’s College Journal of Jewish Studies, Spring 2001 Vol. 3, 44-46.