Miriam Udel-Lambert CV

120 Trimble Hall

Department of German Studies

Emory University

(404) 727-7076

miriam.udel-lambert@emory.edu

Education

Doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Stroock Fellowship, September 2006-present (for dissertation completion)

Solomon Fellowship, September 2001- June 2006.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies Young Scholar Award. Spring 2002.

Uriel Weinreich Program for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, YIVO Institute

Summer 2007, Summer 2001.

Midreshet Lindenbaum, Jerusalem, Israel.

Beruriah Scholars Talmud Fellowship, April 1999-April 2000.

Matan Women’s Institute for Torah Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

Matmidot Fellowship in Bible and Talmud at August 1998-March 1999.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Advanced Modern Hebrew, Summer 1998

Israel at Fifty Scholarship

Harvard College , A.B. 1998

Summa cum laude, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Senior thesis: “The Creation of Selfhood in the Poetry of D. Rabikovitch.”

Phi Beta Kappa

Undergraduate Thesis Research Grant, Center for the Study of World Religions. Summer 1997.

Dissertation

“The Tongue’s Power: Speech, the Body, and the Modernist Relocation of Ethics”

Scholarly publications

“The Fables of Eliezer Shteynbarg and the Modernist Relocation of Ethics.”Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History , Winter 2007.

“Seductions and Disputations: Pseudo-dialogues in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer.” Forthcoming in Beyond the Modern Jewish Canon: Arguing Jewish Literature and Culture, A Festschrift in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse ( Harvard University Press)

Other publications

A Grammar of the Heart: Essays on Religion and Feminism . Forthcoming from Trumpeter in 2008.

My essays and reporting have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Forward, The American Prospect, and Harvard Magazine.

University Teaching

Emory University. Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. Dual appointment in the Department of German Studies and the Institute of Jewish Studies. August 2007-present.

Harvard Divinity School . Midrash: Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Rabbinic Period, (Teaching Fellow). Spring 2004.

Harvard University. Modern Jewish Literature (Head Teaching Fellow). Fall 2003.

Bok Center for Teaching and Learning citation and mention in the Committee on Undergraduate Education Guide for excellence in teaching.

Community Teaching and Academic Administration

Director, Drisha Summer High School Program, an intensive five-week program for high school girls pursuing advanced study of Jewish classical texts at the Drisha Institute. New York, NY. September 2002-June 2004.

Bird by Bird: An Intensive Introduction to Vayikra Rabba, midrash course at Ma’ayan Torah Studies Initiative for Women. Brookline, MA. Fall 2003 and Drisha Summer High School Program, Summer 2003.

Awake and Curious: The Tenth Chapter of Tractate Pesahim, intermediate Talmud class at Ma’ayan. Brookline, MA. 2002-03 and at Drisha Summer High School Program, Summer 2002.

Your Money or Your Life: The Third Chapter of Tractate Ketubot, intermediate Talmud class at Ma’ayan. Brookline, MA. Spring 2002.

The Early Life of Moses in Rabbinic and Medieval Exegesis, adult education class at The Drisha Institute. New York, NY. Summer 2001.

The American Jewish Experience through Literature, Drisha Summer High School Program. Summer 2001.

The Milk of Human Kindness: Marital Obligations between Husbands and Wives, beginners’ Talmud class at Ma’ayan. Brookline, MA. 2000-01.

Scholarly Talks

“Power in the Tongue: Seduction as Speech-Act in the Short Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer,” December 20, 2005, Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, D.C.

“Hammer and Iron: Discerning a Theory of Rhetoric in the Fables of Eliezer Shteynbarg” August 2, 2005, The Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.

“Eloquent Nightingale, Grandiloquent Crow: Discerning Eliezer Shteynbarg’s Theory of Rhetoric,” December 21, 2004, Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago.

L anguages

Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Spanish, Aramaic