Judith Katz

Adjunct Faculty, Center for Jewish Studies

Research Interests

• Representation of Jews in the arts and popular American culture
• Contemporary Jewish American literature and film
• Post World War II Jewish American culture
• The Rosenberg trial and executions and the participation of Jewish scientists in the development of the atomic bomb

Selected Publications

The Escape Artist, a novel. Firebrand Books, Ithaca, N.Y. 1997

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, a novel. Firebrand Books, Ithaca, N.Y. 1992

Courses

• Too Jewish? The Complicated Construction of Jewish American Pscyhe in American Literature, Film, and the Arts
• The Pen in the Golden Land: Autobiography and Self Invention in Jewish American Literature
• Contemporary Jewish Literature