MICHAEL GALCHINSKY

Professor of English Founding Director, Program in Jewish Studies Georgia State University P.O. Box 3970 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3970 voice: (404) 413-5821 fax: (404) 413-5830 [email protected]

I. EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1994 B. A. Northwestern University, 1987, with Highest Distinction

II. PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

2007- Professor of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2001-2007 Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; Director of Program in Jewish Studies 1998-2001 Assistant Professor of English, Georgia State University 1994-1998 Assistant Professor of English, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS

III. DISSERTATION

Title: "Romance, Reform, and the Women of Israel: Women's Contribution to the Jewish Enlightenment in England, 1830-1880" Director: Catherine Gallagher

IV. PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).

ed., Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings (Calgary, Canada: Broadview Press, 2003).

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David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, eds., Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996).

Chapters

“Framing a Rights Ethos: Artistic Media and the Dream of a Culture without Borders,” in Tristan Borer, ed., Mediating Atrocity: Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights, accepted by Zed Books, in progress.

“Jewish Non-governmental Organizations.” Routledge Handbook of Human Rights, ed. Thomas Cushman (New York: Routledge, 2011), 560-569.

“Concepts of Diaspora and Galut,” adapted from “Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas,” in Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson, eds., Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006), 63-78.

“Zerstreute Saaten: Ein Dialog der Diasporakulturen,” trans. of “Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas,” in M. Brenner, A. Kauders, G. Reuveni und N. Romer, Judische Geschichte lesen: texte der Judischen geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20. jahrhundert [ Readings: Texts of Jewish Historiography in the 19th and 20th Centuries] (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2003), 207-213.

“Otherness and Identity in the Victorian Novel,” in William Baker and Kenneth Womack, eds., Victorian Literary Cultures: A Critical Companion, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001), 403-420.

“Engendering Liberal Jews: Jewish Women in Victorian England,” in Judith R. Baskin, ed., Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, 2nd ed., (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999), 208-226.

David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, "The Dialectic of Jewish Enlightenment" introduction to David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, eds., Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

"Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas" in David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, eds., Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

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"Romancing the Jewish Home: Victorian Jewish Women Writers" in Murray Baumgarten and H. M. Daleski, eds., Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination, (New York: AMS Press, 1996).

Refereed Articles

“’Quaint and Obsolete’: The ‘War on Terror’ and the Right to Legal Personality,” International Studies Perspectives, accepted, forthcoming.

“A Sea Change in Security: How the ‘War on Terror’ Strengthened Human Rights,” Journal of Conflict Studies, accepted, forthcoming.

“The Problem with Human Rights Culture,” South Atlantic Review 75.2 (Spring, 2010): 5-18.

“Is There a Global Jewish Politics?” invited article for Policy Debate, Institute for Jewish Policy Research,” Jan. 2009.

“The American Jewish Committee and the Birth of the Israeli Human Rights Movement,” Journal of Human Rights 5.3 (July-September, 2006): 303-321.

“The Jewish Settlements in the West Bank: International Law and Israeli Jurisprudence,” Israel Studies 9.3 (Fall, 2004): 115-136.

“Victorian Midrash: Grace Aguilar’s The Women of Israel” [publ. in Hebrew as “Midrash victoriani: Grace Aguilar v’sifra nashot yisrael”], Massekhet 2 (: Matan Women’s Institute of Torah Studies, 2004): 47-60.

“Africans, Indians, Arabs, and Scots: Jewish and Other Questions in the Age of Empire,” Jewish Culture and History 6.1 (Fall, 2003): 46-60.

“On Poetry and Terror: Shakespeare on September 12,” South Atlantic Review (Fall, 2001); 159-162.

"'Permanently Blacked': Julia Frankau's Jewish Race," Victorian Literature and Culture (1999): 171-183.

“Grace Aguilar’s Correspondence,” Jewish Culture and History (Summer, 1999): 88-111.

"Modern Jewish Women's Dilemmas, Grace Aguilar's Bargains," Journal of Literature and Theology 11 (March 1997): 27-45.

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"Glimpsing Golus in the Golden Land: Jews and Multiculturalism in America," Judaism (Fall 1994), and letter exchange (Winter 1995).

"One Jew Talking: Jacob Glatstein's Diminished Imperative Voice," Prooftexts, A Journal of Jewish Literary History 11 (1991): 241-57.

Encyclopedia Articles

"Political Pamphlet." The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Burwick, Frederick (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2012. Blackwell Reference Online. 23 January 2012

“Human Rights,” Entry in Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, ed. Judith Baskin (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 268-269.

“Nongovernmental Organizations, Jewish.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights, ed. David Forsythe, (New York: Oxford, 2009), 103-107.

“Felice D. Gaer.” Entry in Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Publishing House, Ltd., 2006).

“Grace Aguilar,” “Anna Maria Goldsmid,” “Marion Hartog.” Entries in Jewish Women: a Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, eds. Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer (Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing Ltd., 2006).

“Celia Levetus.” Entry in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2004.

"Beatrice Kaufman" and "Kate Simon," contributions to Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds., Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 726-727, 1261-1262. Rept. in Jewish Women: a Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing Ltd., forthcoming).

Reviews and Review Essays

“The Theory and Practice of a ‘Jewish and Democratic’ State,” rev. of Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubenstein, Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights (: Routledge, 2008), H-Human-Rights, H-Net Reviews, September, 2010, url: http://www.h- net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29855.

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Rev. of Henry L. Feingold, Jewish Power in America: Myth and Reality (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2008), American Jewish History 95.4 (2009): 378-380.

Rev. of Stephen Spector, Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), American Jewish History 92.4 (Fall, 2006).

Review Essay. Sheila Spector, ed., British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), European Romantic Review 18.2 (Fall, 2006): 117-124.

Rev. of Cynthia Scheinberg, Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture. Victorian Studies 45.3 (Spring, 2003): 551-53.

Rev. (with Cindy Ash and Laura Moakler) of Michael McKeon, ed. Theory of the Novel: An Historical Approach. South Atlantic Review (Fall, 2001): 181- 184.

Rev. of Jonathan Freedman, The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti- Semitism in Literary Anglo-America. MLQ: A Journal of Literary History 62.3 (Sept., 2001): 303-307.

Rev. of Anzia Yezierska, Arrogant Beggar, “The Beggar's Banquet.” Tikkun (Jan./Feb. 1997): 100-101.

Rev. of Judith Baskin, ed. Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. Tikkun (July/Aug. 1996): 100.

"The New Anglo-Jewish Literary Criticism” (Review Essay). Prooftexts 15 (Sept. 1995): 272-82.

V. PRESENTATIONS

“Shirking Responsibility for Genocide: New Prevention Efforts in the Shadow of State Refusal and Neglect,” accepted at Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors, joint conference of the human rights sections of the International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, and International Political Science Association, University of Glasgow, June 18-19, 2012.

Panel Chair, “The War on Terror and the Shield of R2P,” accepted at Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors, joint Michael Galchinsky - 6

conference of the human rights sections of the International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, and International Political Science Association, University of Glasgow, June 18-19, 2012.

“Shirking Responsibility for Genocide,” accepted at joint conference of the British and International Studies Association, Edinburgh, June 20-22, 2012.

Panel chair, “Human Rights Modes: Testimony,” Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012.

“Countering Jack Bauer: How the ‘War on Terror’ Strengthened Human Rights,” International Studies Association Conference, Montreal, March 16, 2011.

“The Problem with Human Rights Literature,” Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011.

“Quaint and Outdated: The Evolving ‘Law of War Paradigm’ and the Right to be Recognized,” Joint ISA-APSA-IPSA Human Rights Sections Conference, “Assessing the state of human rights nine years after 9/11,” Roosevelt University, Chicago, June 10, 2010.

“Global Civil Culture: Crafting Universal Structures of Feeling,” International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, Feb. 17-20, 2010.

“Using Culture to Teach about Rights: Protest, Testimony, Laughter, Lament,” keynote address, Conversations among Partners in Learning in Conjunction with the meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Nov. 8, 2009.

“The Problem with Human Rights Culture,” Symposium on Human Rights in the Humanities, Georgia State University, Nov. 5, 2009.

“The Question of Human Rights in Jewish Traditions,” Rutgers University Jewish Studies Department Faculty Seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, Feb. 5, 2009.

“Global Civil Culture: Crafting Universal Structures of Feeling,” Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology, New Haven, Sept. 26, 2008.

“Humanities Teaching.” Facilitation, New Faculty Orientation, Georgia State University, Aug. 14, 2008.

“Is There a Global Jewish Politics?” Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London, June 12, 2008.

“To Dance at Three Weddings,” American Jewish Committee, Atlanta, Jan. 10, 2008. Michael Galchinsky - 7

Respondent, Symposium on Jeffrey Alexander’s The Civil Sphere, Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 12, 2007.

“Jewish Responses to Non-Jewish Genocides,” inaugural videoconference of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives with Brandeis University, Cincinnati, March 7, 2007.

“Israeli, Jewish, Human: Stratification in Israel’s Human Rights Movement,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, Dec. 18, 2006.

Chair, panel on “Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Women Writers,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, Dec. 17, 2006.

Panelist, Town Hall Meeting, “Understanding the Crisis in the Middle East,” Georgia State University, Aug. 24, 2006.

“Ambivalent Diaspora: American Jews and the Israeli Human Rights Movement,” Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Colloquium, Emory University, March 29, 2006.

“The American Jewish Committee and the Birth of the Israeli Human Rights Movement,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, Dec. 20, 2004.

“Jewish Settlements in the West Bank: International Law and Israeli Jurisprudence,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Boston, MA, Dec. 22, 2003.

“Jews and Human Rights: the Limits of Cosmopolitanism,” presented to the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Oct. 14, 2002.

“The End of Cosmopolitanism: American Jews and Globalization,” presented at “Jews as Cosmopolitans: Stereotype, Denunciation, Ideal,” a conference co- sponsored by Schloss Elmau and the Universities of Munich and Haifa, held at Schloss Elmau July 14-17, 2001.

“On Poetry and Terror: Shakespeare on September 12,” presentation on panel, “After September 11,” SAMLA Convention, Nov. 10, 2001.

“Africans, Indians, Arabs, and Scots: Jewish and Other Questions in the Age of Empire,” presented at the “Image of the Jew in Europe, 1789-1914,” a symposium held at the University of Southampton, U.K., Jan. 12-13, 2000. Sponsored by the Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton Department of English, Wiener Library, and the Jewish Chronicle.

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Workshop Presenter (with Jon Epstein) on Art Spiegelman, Maus, in the Conversations Among Partners in Learning, Third Conversation: Using Multicultural Literature to Teach Critical Thinking, Georgia State University, Feb. 24, 2001.

“Diaspora and Galut,” a keynote lecture, and “A Dialogue of Diasporas: Multicultural Alliances in Europe and the US,” a workshop, at “Galut 2000: Toward a European Jewish Identity,” a conference sponsored by Gesher—Forum fur Diasporakultur and the Judische Volkshochschule, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 4-7, 1998.

"'Permanently Blacked': Julia Frankau's Jewish Race," presented at the 1997 Association for Jewish Studies convention, for a session on "Negotiating Otherness in Christian England," December 21, 1997.

"Program Introduction," presented at "Teaching with Technology: Setting a Faculty Technology Agenda," the Fall Faculty Conference at Millsaps College, Aug. 22, 1997. As chair of the committee that planned the conference, I served as master of ceremonies.

"Superman and Other Hidden American Jews," a slide presentation for the 1996 MLA Convention, American session on "The Golem and Other Jewish Science Fiction." Also presented at Richmond International University, London, April 1, 1998; Gettysburg College Hillel, Oct. 5, 1997; and used by the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel in its permanent exhibit on Jews and American popular culture.

"Confessions of a Text Detective," presented at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance co-sponsored by Friends of UCLA English Department, July 7, 1997, and at Millsaps College, sponsored by the Millsaps Forum series in honor of the publication of my book, April 19, 1996.

Respondent to John Cobb, "Is Religion One or Many?" Summers Lecture in Religious Studies, Millsaps College, April 16, 1996.

"Modern Jewish Women's Dilemmas, Grace Aguilar's Bargains." A paper presented at: University of Southampton, Hartley Library, June 3, 1998; Oxford University, Modern Jewish History Seminar, June 8, 1998; the 1996 MLA Convention, session on "Anglo-Jewish Literature"; "Memory, History, and Critique: European Identity at the Millenium," conference of the International Society for the Study of European Identity, Aug. 19-24, 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands; the Association for Jewish Studies Conference, session on Gender and Anglo-Jewish Literature, Dec. 19, 1995; Case Western Reserve University, sponsored by the departments of Religion, English, and Women's Studies, Oct. 1995; the University of Illinois at Chicago, Feb., 1993.

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"Dickens's Hard Times," lecture/discussion sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa speakers' series for three senior classes at Northwest Rankin High School in Rankin, MS, Jan. 25, 1996.

"Multiculturalism and the Whiteness of Jews," presented at the Southern Humanities Council Conference on Multiculturalism, Jackson, MS, Feb. 11, 1995.

"Napoleon's Bargain." A talk sponsored by the University of Denver Center for Judaic Studies and the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, January 4, 1995.

"Romancing the Jewish Home: Victorian Jewish Women Writers," presented at the Dickens Project Conference, Jerusalem, June, 1992.

"Tolerating Liberals: Victorian Jews and the Threat of Social Death," presented at the 1993 MLA Convention, session on "Jews, Judaism and the Formation of English National Identity."

"Victorian Jewish Women Writers and the Conversionists," Boundaries in Question Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

"Blake's 'firm perswasions': the Judaic and the Jew." Presented at the MLA Convention, 1990, session on "Romanticism and Anti-Semitism."

VI. EDITORIAL/REVIEWER PROJECTS

Endorsed Michael Scrivener, Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780- 1840 for Palgrave Macmillan, April 4, 2011. Referee, manuscript of Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis, eds., Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature for Routledge Press, March 25, 2010. Referee, “Port and Plantation Jews in Contemporary Novels of Slavery,” for PMLA, Nov. 3, 2010. Referee, revised submission of “’Imagining the Other’: The Jew in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington,” for European Romantic Review, May 13, 2010. Referee, “Imagining the ‘Other’: The Jew in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington,” for European Romantic Review, July 29, 2009. Referee, “The Appeal to the Spirit of the Maccabees in the Poetry of Emma Lazarus,” for Jewish Culture and History, Feb. 10, 2009. Referee, Sean Latham, “Rethinking the Dissertation,” for South Atlantic Review, May, 2008. Referee, “Emile Durkheim’s ‘Antisémitisme et crise sociale,’” for Sociological Theory, Feb. 2008. Michael Galchinsky - 10

Referee, “Somewhere Between the Real and the Ideal: The Uses and Abuses of the Schlemiel in Literature, Cultural Politics, and Criticism” for PMLA, June 6, 2007. Endorsed Judith W. Page, Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Outside reviewer for Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs and Romance of a Shop, ed. Susan Bernstein, for Broadview Press, 2002. Outside reviewer for Edna Nahshon, From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays, for Wayne State University Press, January, 2000. Referee, “The Golem: Non-Human Beings and Jewish Identity” for Jewish Culture and History, April 30, 2000. Referee, “The Queer Jew and Cinema: From Yidl to Yentl and Back and Beyond” for Jewish Culture and History, Aug. 20, 2000. Outside reviewer for Marla Brettschneider and Dawn Rose, eds. “Meeting at the Well: Multicultural Reciprocity and Jewish Feminism” for Temple University Press, spring 1999. Endorsed Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People, ed. Meri-Jane Rochelson, (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1998).

VII. INTERNAL GRANTS AND EXTERNAL FUNDING

Professional Leave, Georgia State University Fall, 2002 Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University, 2002 Summer Research Award, English Department, Georgia State University, 2008, 2002, and 1999 American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Travel to an International Conference, 1996 Millsaps Faculty Development Summer Grants, 1997, 1995 U. C. Berkeley Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-93 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92 U. C. Berkeley Humanities Graduate Research Grant for Research in London, 1991 Mellon Foundation Grant, 1990 East Bay Jewish Federation Linkages to Israel Grant for Study in Israel, 1989, 1991, 1992

VIII. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES

i. Courses Taught Engl 1101 Composition I, Fall, 2001; Spring, 2000 Engl 2120 Introduction to British Literature, Fall, 2001; Fall, 1998 Engl 2140 Introduction to Literary Studies , Spring, 2003; Spring, 2002; Fall, 1999 Michael Galchinsky - 11

Engl 3290 English Fiction: Fall, 2010; Fall, 2009; Fall, 2008; Sp, 2007; Sp, 2006; Fall, 2004; Sp, 2003; Sum, 2003; Spring, 2001; Spring, 1999; Fall, 1999 Engl 3600 Early Romantics, Fall, 2003 Engl 3605 Late Romantics, Spring, 2012; Summer, 2009 Engl 3610 Victorian Poetry/Non-Fiction Prose, Fall, 1999 Engl/Wst 3990 Women’s Literature II, Sum, 2004; Fall, 2001 Engl 4000 Jewish Literature: Sp, 2011; Sp, 2009; Sp, 2007; Sp, 2005; Sp 2009 Engl 4100 Single Author: Fall, 2006 (Dickens); Fall, 2003 (Eliot), Spring, 2010 (The Brontes) Engl 4200 Topics: Spring, 2004 Engl 4300 Senior Seminar: Fall, 2005; Spring, 2002 Engl 4880 Honors Thesis Research: Spring, 2009 Engl 8001 MA Thesis Pro-Seminar, Spring 2010 Engl 8610 Late Romantic British Literature, Spring, 2012 Engl 8640 Topics in 19th c. British Literature and Culture, Spring, 2011; Summer, 2010; Fall, 2009; Spring, 2005 Engl 8650 19th c. British Fiction: Summer, 2011; Fall, 2010; Fall, 2008; Summer, 2007; Sum, 2001; Spring, 2000; Spring, 1999 Engl 9050 Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism: Spring, 2001 Hon 3260 Honors Colloquium: Human Rights, Fall, 2011 Jst 3000 Introduction to Jewish Studies, Spring, 2006 ii. Direction of Individual Student Work Dissertation, Molly Livingston, 2010- Dissertation, Sophie Weeks, 2009- Dissertation, Tamara Gosta, 2005-2010 Dissertation, Angela Hall-Godsey, 2004-2008 Dissertation, Melissa McLeod, 2002-2007 Dissertation, D. J. Dycus, 2002-2009 MA Thesis, Patrick Osborne, 2009-2010 MA Thesis, Katy Huie, 2009-2011 MA Thesis, Shane McGowan, 2009-2011 MA Thesis, Veda Khulpateea, 2000 MA Thesis, Wendy Holler, 2000 Non-Thesis Option, Angela Hall-Godsey, 2002 Non-Thesis Option, David Thomson, 2002 Non-Thesis Option, Karen Taylor, 2000 Independent Study, Tamara Gosta (graduate student), 2004 Honors Thesis, Emily Waxman, 2009 Graduation with Distinction Project, David Yoo, 2002 Independent Study, Melissa Cooker (graduate student), 2001 Independent Study, Stacy Oliver, 2000

iii. Membership on Committees for Individual Student Work Dissertation, Shannon Gilstrap, 2006-2010 Dissertation, Lawton Brewer, 2008-2010 Michael Galchinsky - 12

Disseration, Anne Nichols (Wayne State University Dept of English), 2007-2010 Dissertation, Benjamin Barrett, 2010- Dissertation, Michelle Abbot, 2010- Dissertation, David Miller, 2006- Dissertation, Cecily Young Davis, 2009- Dissertation, Shelly Aschkenase, 1999-2002 MA Thesis, Sarah Steiner, 2010- MA Thesis, Ellen Murray, 2009-2010 MA Thesis, Karen Flagg, Department of Religious Studies, 2008-2009 MA Thesis, Aaron Pevey, 2007 MA Thesis, Brandy Ball, 2003 MA Thesis, Cindy Ash, 2002 MA Thesis, Lynn Wooten, 1998 Non-Thesis Option, Crystal Hobart, 2002 Graduation with Distinction Project, Nancy Kojima, 2001 Graduation with Distinction Project, Jason Whitt, 2001

iv. Course and Program Development

New Courses, 2001-2010 Engl 3600 Engl/Wst 3990 Engl 4000 Engl 4100 Engl 4200 Engl 8001 Engl 8640 Engl 8650 Engl 9050 Jst 3000 Jst 3500

New Courses, 1998-2001 Engl 1101 Engl 2120 Engl 3290 Engl 3610 Engl 8650

Program Development Program in Jewish Studies, College-Planned Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies

IX. SERVICE Michael Galchinsky - 13

English Department Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee, 2008-2009, and 2009- 2011 Dean of Libraries Search Committee, 2008 English Department Chair Evaluation Committee, 2006 English Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-6 English Department Executive Committee, 2006- Chair, Department of English Self-Study Committee, 2003-5 Founding Director, Program in Jewish Studies, 2002-2008 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Challenges to Scholarly Publication in the Book Fields, College of Arts and Sciences, 2004-5 Middle East Institute Executive Committee, 2005-2007 Department of English Executive Committee, 2001-2002 Coordinator, Works in Progress Colloquium, 2000-2002 University Senate, 2001-2004 Senate Research Committee, 2001-2004 Senate Budget Committee, 2002-2004 Senate Library Advisory Committee, 2001-2002 Women’s Studies Institute, 2001-2003 English Department Ph.D./MFA Examinations Committee, 2001-2002 English Department New Appointments Committee, 1999-2000 English Department Studies in the Literary Imagination Committee, 1999-2000 English Department Master’s Examination Committee, 1998-99.

X. PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES

A. Institutes and Delegations

Delegate to People to People Ambassador Program to Russia led by Judith Baskin, president of Association for Jewish Studies, Sept. 9-18, 2005. Participant, Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies, June 21-July 14, 2006.

B. Professional Positions

International Cooperation Committee, Association for Jewish Studies, 2005-2008. Screening Committee, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, 2007. Editorial Board, Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Jewish Culture, 2001- 2003. International Editorial Board, Jewish Culture and History, 1998- . Book Review Editor, Tikkun magazine, 1996-1997.

C. Coordination of Conferences and Lectures Michael Galchinsky - 14

Moderator, Symposium on Human Rights and the Humanities, sponsored by GSU Center for Human Rights and Democracy, the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Humanities Center, Departments of English and Modern and Classical Languages, Nov. 5, 2009. Planning Committee, Moderator, “Human Rights in an Age of Insecurity: A Symposium,” Georgia State University, sponsored by the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Program in Jewish Studies, Middle East Institute, Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities, Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Departments of Communication and Political Science, March 27, 2009. Naomi Janowitz, “Lusting for Death: Origins of Martyrdom in Ancient Judaism,” March 11, 2008. Joseph White, “New Insights into Nazi Concentration Camps from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Camps and Ghettos Encyclopedia Project,” Feb. 20, 2008. Orly Castel-Bloom, Israeli novelist, a reading, Nov. 10, 2006. Shaul Bassi, University of Venice, “Jewish Narratives and Indian Literature,” Feb. 21, 2006. Zipora Wagner, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Georgia State University, Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation, April 27, 2006. Yehudith Rotem, Israeli writer, “Discovering my Voice,” with GSU Hillel and the Israeli Consulate, Nov. 16, 2005. Sander Gilman, “Is Multiculturalism Good for the Jews? A Literary Look” and a faculty and graduate student seminar on his forthcoming book, Fat Boys. Sponsored by the GSU Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Program in Jewish Studies and Department of English, April 8, 2003. "Becoming Visible: Women's Struggles for Justice": a conference sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the South, Jackson, MS Oct. 24-26, 1997. Served as Program Coordinator. "Teaching with Technology: Setting a Faculty Technology Agenda," Millsaps Fall Faculty Conference, Aug. 22, 1997. Coordinated conference.

D. Affiliations

Association for Jewish Studies Modern Language Association Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association North American Victorian Studies Association International Studies Association

E. Public Outreach

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Lecture on Rousseau’s Confessions for course on “English Literature, Autobiography” at Phillips State Prison, Georgia Department of Corrections, instructor Sarah Higinbotham, Feb. 22, 2010.

Panel participant, discussion of Boycott (2001, Dir. Clark Johnson), sponsored by Center for Civil and Human Rights and HBO, Woodruff Arts Center, Dec. 8, 2009.

Introduction to screening of Love Comes Lately (German, 2007, Dir. Jan Schutte), Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Jan. 25, 2009.

Participant as content expert, Human Rights Charette, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Aug. 28, 2009.

Interview about Jews and Human Rights with Nija Dalal, The Hub, WRAS 88.5 FM Georgia State University radio station, May 7, 2008.

Guest speaker, “AJC and Human Rights,” Atlanta Chapter Board of Trustees Meeting, American Jewish Committee, Jan. 10, 2008.

Consultant with Jonathan Benator, law student, Emory University Law School, paper on family reunification in Israeli and international law, Fall, 2006.

Interview, “US/Israeli/Lebanon/Palestine Conflicts,” WRAS-FM 88.5, Georgia State University campus radio, 7 p.m., Aug. 28, 2006.

Interview in Tova Fruchtman, “National Fellowships Help 2 Researchers Hit Books,” Atlanta Jewish Times (Aug. 24, 2006): 13-14.

Panel discussion on Mark Harelik, The Immigrant, Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta, April 5, 2006

Introduction to a screening of Campfire (Hebrew, 2004, Dir. Joseph Cedar), Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Jan. 25 and 27, 2006.

Panel discussion on William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare Tavern, Atlanta, Jan. 22, 2006.

“Judaism and Human Rights—a Shidduch?” an interactive seminar given at Mount Scopus Hadassah, Atlanta, Dec. 14, 2005; University of Judaism Elder Hostel Program and Senior Summer Institute, Los Angeles, July 20, 2005; and Congregation Shearith Israel, Atlanta, Jan. 20, 2005.

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Respondent to Noa Baum, “A Land Twice Promised” (a one-woman performance on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict), sponsored by Roots & Wings Life Stories, at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Decatur, GA, Feb. 28, 2004. Remarks on The War Room at “Hollywood Goes to Washington,” film series sponsored by the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, GSU Village, Oct. 25, 2004.

Remarks on The Jazz Singer at “Race at the Crossroads: Romance, Self-Identity, and Diversity,” film series sponsored by the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, GSU Village, Nov. 12, 2003.

“Facilitating a Book Club Discussion (A Few Tools),” Private Book Club launch, Atlanta, March 19, 2003.

“Pop Marranos: Superman and Other Hidden American Jews,” Yad Lunch and Learn, Georgia State University, Feb. 20, 2003.

Guest Speaker on Modern Jewish Women’s History, Professor Leah Garrett’s course, “Jewish Culture Through the Millenia,” Denver University Department of English, 29 September, 2003.

Guest speaker on Informal/Creative Approaches to Writing Assignments, Graduate Teaching Assistant Seminar, Georgia State University, 4 February 2002.

Guest speaker on Grace Aguilar, “The Escape,” Professor Kathryn McClymond’s course Judaism in the Modern World, Georgia State University, 19 November 2001.

Guest speaker on “Kant vs. Mendelssohn: What is Enlightenment?” Professor Calvin Thomas’s seminar in the Foundations of Modern Critical Theory, Georgia State University, 29 August 2001.

“Educating Toward a Global Jewish Identity: The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Jewish Contact,” a conference co-sponsored by the Hornstein Institute for Informal Jewish Education at Brandeis University and the Mifgashim Centre in Israel, Brandeis University, May 9, 2001. The conference was inspired, in part, by my essay, “Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diasporas,” in the book Insider/Outsider, which was distributed in the packets of all conference participants.

Respondent to Stefanie B. Siegmund, “Before the Ghetto: The Jews of Florence and the Question of ‘Jewish Community,’” Vann Seminar in Pre-Modern History, Emory University Department of History, March 4, 2001.

Guest speaker, Professor Miriam Peskowitz’s Seminar in Modern Jewish Historiography, Emory University, 21 October 1999. Michael Galchinsky - 17

Guest speaker, Professor David Rechter’s Seminar in Modern European Jewish History, Oxford University, 8 June 1998.

XI. HONORS, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITION

Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, 2009-. Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar, Center for Jewish Studies and Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, June-July, 2005. Visiting Skirball Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, Feb.-June, 1998 Commendations for Teaching and Professional Development, Millsaps Personnel Committee, 1994-1995, 1995-1996 Commendation for Sevice, Millsaps Personnel Committee, 1996-1997 U. C. Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 1990 Phi Beta Kappa, 1987 Northwestern University English Department Award for Best Senior Creative Writing Major, 1987