Prof. Udel studied Modern Jewish Literature and literary modernism in Harvard University's Department of Comparative Literature. Her dissertation focused on the ethics of speech in modernist narratives, with an emphasis on Yiddish and Jewish-American fiction. Her next project will examine how modern Jewish authors have used the picaresque form. At Emory, she teaches Yiddish language, literature, and culture, beginning with introductory Yiddish. She looks forward to working closely with colleagues in German and in Jewish Studies, as well as those in comparative literature and Slavic studies. Prof. Udel recently gave a talk as part of the Tam Institute's 2007-2008 Seminar Series entitled, "Embodied Minds: Toward an Ethics of the Body in Saul Bellow". |
