Academic Articles, Book Chapters, Interviews, and Reviews:

Academic Articles and Book Chapters:

“Grief Chains: interconnected losses in Roz Chast’s Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?” In Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, edited by Bushnell, Harrison-Kahan, and Walters. Wayne State University Press (forthcoming, May 2024).

“Expressions of Jewishness alongside grief in American graphic novels.” In The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel, edited by Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, and Fabrice Leroy. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 177-192.

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the fantasy of becoming.” In a special issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature, Special issue on Jewish women in popular culture, edited by Hilene Flanzbaum 41.2 (2022): 202-209.

“Introduction: Contemplating Death.” With Laura Limonic. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, special issue, “What’s Jewish About Death?” edited by Laura Limonic and Tahneer Oksman, 39.1 (Spring 2021): 1-20.

“Graphic Novel.” In Keywords for Comics Studies, edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley, and Shelley Streebey. New York University Press, 2020. 118-122.

“An Art of Loss.” In Spaces Between: Gender, Diversity, and Identity in Comics, edited by Nina Heindl and Véronique Sina. Springer, 2020. 187-200.

“Re-assembling a shared life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow.” In PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community, edited by Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff. Penn State University Press, 2020. 23-38. (Peer reviewed.)

“Introduction: a shared space.” In The comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself, edited by Oksman and O’Malley. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. xi-lvi. (Peer reviewed.)

“‘Not a word for little girls!’: Knowledge, word, and image in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn.” In Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Essays on Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels, edited by Derek Parker Royal. Bloomsbury, 2016. 29-40. (Peer reviewed.)

“Stranger in a Strange Land: Self-Creation and Self-Exile in Vanessa Davis’s Make Me a Woman.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 32.2 (Fall 2013): 141-166. (Peer reviewed.)

“Visualizing the Jewish Body in Need More Love.” Studies in Comics 1.2 (Nov. 2010): 213-232. (Peer reviewed.)

“Mourning the Family Album.” A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 24.2 (Winter 2009): 235-248. (Peer reviewed.) [Reprinted in Documentary & Archival Research, edited by Jason Hughes and John Goodwin. London: SAGE Publications, 2014.]

Short Essays and Narrative Non-Fiction Published in Academic Venues

“From surreality to surreality: on Nancy K. Miller’s cancer collages” In Bodies and Borders in Jewish Women’s Comics, edited by Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman. Syracuse University Press, 2023. 26-30.

“Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory and the ‘fragments of a history we cannot take in.’” In Women’s Studies Quarterly 48.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2020), Special Issue on “Inheritance,” edited by Maria Rice Bellamy and Karen Weingarten: 133-136.

“Seasons of Grief.” In Who Will Speak for America?: Envisioning a New National Community After Trump, edited by Nathaniel Popkin and Stephanie Feldman. Temple University Press, 2018. 41-48.

Interviews Published in Academic Venues

“‘You tell them a lot without trying’: Leela Corman’s Victory Parade and the Silenced Legacies of the Past.” In Drawing Memory, edited by Aarons. Detroit: Wayne State University Press (forthcoming, 2024).

“‘We carry that history’: An interview with Nora Krug.” Literature & Belief, Special issue on Jewish comics and graphic novels, edited by Aarons, 40.2 & 41.1 (2021): 127-145.

“Thinking Panoramically: An Interview with Lauren Weinstein.” In Graphic Details: Essays on Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, edited by Lightman. Jefferson, McFarland, 2014. 185-194.

“‘A Portrait of the World Through My Eyes’: An Interview with Miss Lasko-Gross.” In Graphic Details: Essays on Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, edited by Lightman. Jefferson, McFarland, 2014. 176-184.

“In Search of the Whole Truth: An Interview with Vanessa Davis.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 4.1 (2013): 179-184.

Book Reviews Published in Academic Venues

Reviews of:

The Healer’s Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief (Carver College of Medicine), edited by Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz. Literature & Medicine 40.1 (Spring 2022): 172-177.

Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford University Press), by Golan Y. Moskowitz). In geveb: a Journal of Yiddish Studies, 24 Oct. 2021.

Life Support: Invitation to Prayer (The Pennsylvania State University Press), by Judith Margolis. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, special issue, “What’s Jewish About Death?” edited by Laura Limonic and Tahneer Oksman, 39.1 (Spring 2021): 66-69.

Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York (NYU Press), by Allan Amanik. AJS Review 45.1 (April 2021): 211-213.

Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (NYU Press), by Joyce Antler. Contemporary Jewry 38.3 (Winter 2018): 437-439.

Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature (Routledge), by Rachel Dean-Ruzicka. The Lion and the Unicorn 42.3 (September 2018): 375-378.

JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews (University of Nebraska Press), by Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt. H-Net Reviews (H-Judaic). June 2017.

Cartoonists Against the Holocaust (Clizia), by Rafael Medoff and Craig Yoe. American Jewish History 101.2 (2017): 319-321.

Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online (The University of Wisconsin Press), edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak. Life Writing 12.3 (2015): 371-373.

The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia University Press), by Marianne Hirsch. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 29.2 (2014): 345-348.

Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First Century Storytelling (Stanford University Press), by Jared Gardner. Studies in Comics 3.2 (Dec. 2012): 387-389.

Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness (SUNY Press), by Helene Meyers. MELUS 37.3 (Fall 2012): 227-229.

Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (The University of Wisconsin Press), edited by Michael A. Chaney. Studies in Comics 2.1 (May 2011): 223-225.

Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury Academic), edited by A. David Lewis & Christine Hoff Kraemer. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 2.1 (June 2011): 96-98.

Graphic Women: Life Narrative & Contemporary Comics (Columbia University Press), by Hillary L. Chute. Contemporary Women’s Writing 5.3 (2011): 258-260.

On My Way to Someplace Else: Essays by a Daughter of Holocaust Survivors (CreateSpace), by Sandra Hurtes. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 7.2 (2010).