University of Connecticut |
Hebrew and Judaic Studies Faculty
Philip Balma
Philip Balma is Assistant Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where he also serves as the Coordinator of the Italian language program. He teaches modern Italian literature and cinema, as well as courses on the Italian-American experience. His research interests include the Jewish experience in contemporary Italophone literature and film, artistic representations of World War II, the theory and practice of literary translation, Italian literature in dialect, the influence of English on the Italian language, and the postcolonial question in Italy. He was previously a member of the Italian faculty at Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Georgia. His work has been published in Italica, Forum Italicum, Italian Quarterly, Italian Poetry Review, Translation Review, Saggi di 'Lettere Italiane', and Italianistica Ultraiectina. He is the co-author of Streetwise Italian: the User Friendly Guide to Italian Slang and Idioms published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. He was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship in 2009, by the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. In the summer of 2011 Prof. Balma was awarded a Visiting Scholarship for the Study of Italian Jewry by the CDEC (Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea) in Milan, Italy.
Recent publications:
"Quando non tradurre vuol dire censurare: appunti su un racconto di Edith Bruck." Italian Quarterly 177-178 (2008): 31-42. [Volume published in 2011] "From Can to Dawg: Rendering Calzavara’s Dialectal Poetry for Italophone and Anglophone Readers." Forum Italicum 44.1 (Spring 2010): 119-135.
Stuart S. Miller
Stuart S. Miller is Professor of Hebrew, History, and Judaic Studies and a member of the Classics and Mediterranean Studies section of the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and is responsible for the direction of academic offerings in Judaic Studies at UConn. Professor Miller is a specialist in the history and literature of the Jews of Roman and Late Antique Palestine and has worked closely with archaeologists, having served for many years on the staff of the Sepphoris Regional Project. His publications include, Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris (E. J. Brill, 1984) and Sages and Commoners in Late Antique ’Erez Israel: A Philological Inquiry into Local Traditions in Talmud Yerushalmi (Mohr-Siebeck, 2006) and many articles that have appeared in the Association for Jewish Studies Review, Harvard Theological Review, Jewish Quarterly Review, Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period, Journal of Jewish Studies, Historia, and in numerous edited volumes. His most recent book, At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds: Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee, will appear in the Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplement Series (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) in early 2013. Professor Miller is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Sebastian Wogenstein
Sebastian Wogenstein's research and teaching focuses on 20th-century German literature with emphasis on German-Jewish literature, theater, and the intersection of literature and human rights. He is the author of a monograph, Horizonte der Moderne: Tragoedie und Judentum von Cohen bis Levinas (Horizons of Modernity: Tragedy and Judaism from Cohen to Levinas, 2011), and co-editor of the book An Grenzen: Literarische Erkundungen (On Borders: Literary Explorations, 2007), a volume focusing on borders, acts of border crossings, and the de/construction of borders. He edited a special issue of Germanic Review, titled "Zionism and Its Discontents," and published articles in Germanic Review, Monatshefte, Gegenwartsliteratur, Naharaim, and Telos. Sebastian Wogenstein is faculty associate of the Human Rights Institute. He studied German Literature, American Studies, and Political Science at the University of Tuebingen, received an M.A. in European Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he worked for the Franz Rosenzweig Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, and received his doctoral degree from the University of Tuebingen. |
