Prof Leah Garrett - Researcher Profile

Biography

I moved to Australia in April, 2008 from Colorado where I was an Associate Professor of Jewish Literature at the University of Denver. I was born in New York and grew up in Niger, West Africa and Massachusetts. I attended graduate school in literary studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary completing my PhD in 1999. In the US I received two major research fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, and an Academy of Learned Sciences Research Fellowship.

Qualifications

PHD IN JEWISH LITERATURE

Institution: The Jewish Theological Seminary

Year awarded: 2000

M. PHIL IN JEWISH LITERATURE

Institution: The Jewish Theological Seminary

Year awarded: 1997

M A IN MODERN JEWISH STUDIES

Institution: The Jewish Theological Seminary

Year awarded: 1994

BA ARTS

Institution: Maryhurst College

Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Books

Garrett, L., 2011, A Knight at the Opera: Heine, Wagner, Herzl, Peretz, and the Legacy of Der Tannhauser, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette Indiana.

Garrett, L. (ed), 2007, The Cross and Other Jewish Stories, Yale University Press, London, UK.

Garrett, L., 2003, Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI USA.

Book Chapters

Garrett, L., 2008, The Kvetcher in the rye: J.D Salinger and challenges to the modern Jewish canon, in Arguing the modern Jewish canon, eds Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint and Rachel Rubinstein, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 645-659.

Garrett, L., 2007, Introduction, in The Cross and Other Jewish Stories, eds Leah Garrett, Yale University Press, London, UK, pp. 1-23.

Garrett, L., 2003, Landscape in Jewish imagination, in Studying Cultural Landscapes, eds Iain Robertson & Penny Richards, Arnold - Hodder Headline Group, London UK, pp. 108-119.

Journal Articles

Garrett, L., 2011, Dazed and confused: Lamed Shapiro's American Stories, Studies in American Jewish Literature [P], vol 30, Purdue University Press, US, pp. 47-59.

Garrett, L., 2010, Just one of the Goys: Salinger's, Miller's, and Malamud's hidden Jewish heroes, AJS Review [P], vol 34, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, New York, US, pp. 171-194.

Garrett, L., 2005, Cynthia Ozick's Envy: A reconsideration, Studies in American Jewish Literature [P], vol 24, University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska, USA, pp. 60-81.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Anatomy of South African antisemitism: Afrikaner nationalism and South Africa jewry between the world wars .

Supervisors:

Markus, A (Main), Garrett, L (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Australian gorvernment policy on the entry and resettlement of jews from the Soviet Union: 1975-1995.

Supervisors:

Markus, A (Main), Garrett, L (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Saul Bellow's novel "Herzog" as a modern day Talmud.

Supervisors:

Garrett, L (Main), Auerbach, K (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Sexual violence as a weapon of genocide in the holocaust.

Supervisors:

Garrett, L (Joint-co), Thomson, A (Joint).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Hodge, F.

Program of Study:

She'erit Hapletah and the Jewish Displaced Persons' Press In the American Zone of Germany 1945-1950. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Garrett, L (Joint), Markus, A (Joint-Co).

Student:

Rubinstein, K.

Program of Study:

Concrete dreaming (thesis) followed by National subjects and narrative disruption in contemporary Israeli autobiography (exegesis). (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Garrett, L (Main), Caine, B (Associate), Oz Salzberger, F (Associate).

Student:

Slucki, D.

Program of Study:

The Jewish Labor Bund after the Holocaust: a comparative history. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Garrett, L (Main), Markus, A (Associate).