Ben Schreier to speak on “The History of Jewish American Literary History” on Mar. 31

Ben Schreirer will speak on “The History of Jewish American Literary History” on Thursday, March 31 at 4 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium.

Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies, Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Penn State University. He is author of The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literature (NYU 2015) and The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature (Virginia 2009), and since 2011, he has been the editor of the journal Studies in American Jewish Literature.