BARRY SCOTT WIMPFHEIMER curriculum vitae Department of Religious Studies Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Northwestern University 1860 Campus Drive, 4-140 Evanston, Illinois 60208-2164 [email protected] 847-491-2618 POSITIONS Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religious Studies (Fall 2013-Present) Critical Theory, Jewish Studies and Legal Studies Committees Director of Undergraduate Studies, (Fall 2019-Present) Associate Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (Fall 2013-Present) Director, Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies & Jewish Studies Program, Northwestern University (Fall 2012-Summer 2016) Fellow, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religious Studies, (Summer 2007-Spring 2013) Director of Undergraduate Studies, (Fall 2008-Spring 2009) Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (Summer 2007-Spring 2013) College Fellow, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion (Summer 2006-Spring 2007) Assistant Professor. The Pennsylvania State University, Department of History and Religious Studies; Malvin and Lea Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies (Fall 2005- Spring 2006). Harry Starr Fellow. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies (Spring 2006). Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Spring 2005). EDUCATION Columbia University, New York, New York. Wimpfheimer cv March 20 p. 1 Ph.D., with Distinction, October 2005. Religion. Committee: Professors David Weiss Halivni, Elizabeth Castelli, Jeffrey Rubenstein, Alan Segal, Michael Stanislawski. M.Phil., October 2004. Religion. M.A., October 2003. Religion. Yeshiva University, New York, New York. 1996-2000. Rabbinic Ordination, June 2000. M.A., June 2000. Talmudic Studies. Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, New York. B.A., October 1995. Mathematics and History. ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Alice Kaplan Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Summer 2017. School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Summer 2003. Latin and Greek Institute, City University of New York, New York, New York, Summer 2002. Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book, University of Pennsylvania, May 2002 (Early Hebrew Printing) and May 2000 (Codicology). The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2001-2002. Visiting Student Hebrew Language Exemption (Ptor) Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2000-2001. Exchange Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Sha’alvim Educational Center, Sha’alvim, Israel, 1995-1996, 1990-1992. BOOKS 1. The Talmud: A Biography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) 2. Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). 3. Editor, Wisdom of Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume (Jersey City, New Jersey: Ktav, 2009). Wimpfheimer cv March 20 p. 2 ARTICLES 4. “The Postmodern Mishnah: The Role of the Reader and the Instability of Meaning.” Under Consideration at Jewish Quarterly Review. 5. “Conflict Over the Essential Nature of Law: Bava ben Buta’s Activism in Tosefta Hagigah.” In Jeffrey Rubenstein, ed., NYU Studies in Rabbinic Narratives I, Brown Judaic Studies (Providence, RI) forthcoming, 2020. 6. “Codes” in Julen Etxabe, ed., A Cultural History of Law: Volume I Antiquity 2500 BCE- 500 CE (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 59-74. 7. Review of Aaron Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Iconoclast. Religious Studies Review 44:1 (March 2018), 71-77. 8. “Footnotes to Carnal Israel: Infertility and the Legal Subject.” in Moulie Vidas, Ishay Rosen-Zvi Charlotte Fonrobert, eds., Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin (Leiden: Brill, 2017): 161-200. 9. “Suborning Perjury: A Case Study of Narrative Precedent in Talmudic Law,” in Martha Nussbaum, Allison Lacroix, Richard Macadams, eds. Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017): 41-64. 10. “Rabbinic Literature: Mishnah and Talmuds” and “Babylonian Talmud.” in Judith Baskin, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2011). 11. “The Dialogical Talmud: A Response to Daniel Boyarin’s Socrates and the Fat Rabbis.” Jewish Quarterly Review 101 (2011): 245-254. 12. Review of Richard Kalmin, Between Persia and Roman Palestine. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 78:1 (March 2010): 312-315. 13. “The Shiva.” in Paul Socken, ed., Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century (Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2010): 195-205. 14. “Interrupting Birth Control: Re-reading a Famous Beraita.” in Barry Wimpfheimer, ed., Wisdom of Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume (2009): 247-274. 15. “Preface.” in Barry Wimpfheimer, ed., Wisdom of Bat Sheva: The Dr. Beth Samuels Memorial Volume (2009): 1-4. 16. “Talmudic Legal Narrative: Broadening the Discourse of Jewish Law.” Dine Israel 24 (2007): 157-196. 17. “‘But It Is Not So’: Toward a Poetics of Legal Narrative in the Babylonian Talmud.” Prooftexts 24 (Winter 2004): 51-86. 18. “Qeren Kieyn Sheganav: An Analysis of BT Bava Qama 65a-66a (Hebrew).” Beit Yitzhaq 31 (2000): 214-232. Wimpfheimer cv March 20 p. 3 19. “The Jewish Library: The Hebrew Bible (TaNaKh) and Rabbinic Literature.” in Gary Porton, ed., Bloomsbury Religion in North America (electronic database). Forthcoming. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS “The Talmud: A Biography” Columbia University, New York, NY March 26, 2019. “The Talmud as Icon,” Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, January 24, 2019. Panel participant, Roundtable: Theory and Practice of Talmud Commentary. Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, MA, December 18, 2018. “The Beautiful Body as Capital,” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, MA, December 16, 2018. “Rabbinic Narratives Reconsidered,” Conference on Rabbinic Narratives, NYU, New York: NY, June 4-5, 2018 “Infertility and the Legal Subject,” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, December 19, 2017. “Is Halakhah Jewish Law? The Implications of a Rubric,” Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA, November 19, 2017 “Three Talmuds: How the Talmud Matters,” Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, May 15, 2017 “The Talmud as Symbol: Reputation as Reception,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, December 19,2016 “The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction,” Northwestern TeachX Conference, May 16, 2016 “The Talmud as Icon,” University of Colorado Boulder Jewish Studies, Boulder, Colorado, February 22, 2016 “The Paris and Barcelona Disputations,” NU/Pisa Conference: “Trials That Shook the World,” May 20, 2015 “Jewish Studies and the Community: The Challenges of Connecting,” panelist, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD, December 15, 2014 “Were All of Israel Established as Liars?: Perjury and Ancient Jewish Narratives.” Crime in Law and Literature Conference, Chicago, IL, February 7, 2014. Respondent, “Talmudic Readings on Two Contemporary Ethical Challenges.” Society of Jewish Ethics, Chicago, Il, January 4, 2013 “The Amoraim and Stam as Readers.” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Chicago, Il, December 17, 2012 Wimpfheimer cv March 20 p. 4 “The Real in the Nominal: Money in Medieval Talmudic Exegesis” Halakhah and Reality Conference, New York University, New York, NY, May 1, 2012 “What We Talk About When We Talk About Mishnah.” University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 17, 2012 “Narrating the Law: How Stories Create Complex Law in the Talmud.” 2011 Robbins Lecture in Jewish Law. Program on Jewish Law, University of California at Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA, April 16, 2012 “Sanhedrin as Signifier: Real and Imagined Rabbinic Politics.” Frankel Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 29, 2012 “Talmudic Charity: Rights, Obligations and Ambivalence.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI March 19, 2012 “Panopticism, Performativity, Passing and Peering: Maris Ayin as a Complex Site of Religious Meaning.” American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Francisco, CA, November 19-22, 2011. “Paradigms of Coherence in Jewish Law.” Ancient Judaism Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 26, 2011. “Hypocrisy in Rabbinic Hyperbole and Law” Workshop on Hypocrisy and Dissimulation. University of Chicago. May 5-6, 2011. Panel Organizer, “Classical Rabbinics as a Prism for Jewish Historiography” “The Talmud as it Was” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, MA, December 19, 2010. Panel Participant, “The Impact of Contemporary Legal Theory on the Study of Halakhah” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, MA, December 19, 2010. “Where is Jewish Law Located?” Questioning the Law: Northwestern-Pisa Conference, Evanston, IL, April 14, 2010. “Talmudic Dynamics.” Annual Joint Doctoral Program Symposium. Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, January 26, 2010. “ ‘Go teach verse to your son’ : Rabbis and Schoolteachers in Rabbinic Babylonia.” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Los Angeles, CA, December 21, 2009. “The Bavli as Classical Literature: The Argument from Rhetorical Forms.” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington, DC, December 22, 2008.