Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes

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Pierre Anctil is Professor of contemporary Canadian history and Canadian Jewish 
history at the University of Ottawa. He has written extensively on the history of the 
Montreal Jewish community and on current debates regarding cultural pluralism 
in Montreal. Among his contributions are translations from Yiddish to French of 
memoirs written by Jewish immigrants. He is the author of a literary biography 
of Montreal Yiddish poet Jacob-Isaac Segal. Recent publications include Les Juifs 
de Québec: Quatre cents ans d'histoire and his award-winning comprehensive histo-
ry, Histoire des Juifs du Québec. 
Brenda Beckman-Long is an associate professor of English at Briercrest College, 
which is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan. Her current research ex-
plores how recent Canadian novelists engage readers in historical crises and global 
traumas through testimonial fiction. She is the author of Carol Shields and The Writ-
er-Critic (University of Toronto Press, 2015).
Nathalie Dolbec, professeure agrégée au Département de langues, littératures 
et cultures de l’Université de Windsor, enseigne la littérature et la culture franco-
phones du Canada, ainsi que la théorie littéraire contemporaine. Elle s’intéresse, dans 
une perspective narratologique, au fonctionnement du discours descriptif dans la 
littérature francophone du Canada, en particulier à l’écriture migrante consacrée à 
la Shoah. Dolbec est l’auteure de l’ouvrage Les Rouages du descriptif chez Gabrielle Roy 
publié en 2017 aux Éditions Nota bene à Montréal. Elle a aussi publié un nombre 
appréciable d’articles et a participé à plusieurs colloques tant sur la scène interna-
tionale que nationale.   
Catherine Khordoc est professeure agrégée au Département de français de l’Uni-
versité Carleton. Ses recherches portent sur la littérature québécoise contemporaine 
dans une optique transculturelle et transnationale. Auteure de Tours et détours : le 
mythe de Babel dans la littérature contemporaine, elle a aussi publié plusieurs articles 
dans Études en littérature canadienne, French Cultural Studies, la Revue d’études cana-
diennes et Québec Studies, où elle a récemment co-dirigé un numéro notamment sur 
l’intertextualité. Elle prépare présentement un livre sur l’œuvre de Monique Bosco.
Joanna Krongold obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto’s Department 
of English and Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies in 2020. Building upon 
her master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where she studied literary rep-
resentations of trauma, Joanna’s doctoral research examines the use of metaphor and 
figurative dynamics in youth Holocaust literature. She has had extensive teaching 
experience both in person and online, leading courses on diverse topics and exper-
imenting with creative and immersive pedagogical practices. Her current research 
project is an exploration of the intersections between ecocriticism and Holocaust 
literature.
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Sara Monahan holds a PhD in American literature from Lehigh University and 
an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University. Her current re-
search focuses on Native and Indigenous bodies as sites of textual resistance and 
place-based activism and memory. Her article on Northern Paiute author-activist 
Sarah Winnemucca appeared recently in College Literature. An award-winning poet, 
Monahan’s work has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Crazyhorse, North Dakota Quar-
terly, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the 
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
Goldie Morgentaler is Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She is 
the translator from Yiddish to English of much of Chava Rosenfarb’s work, includ-
ing Rosenfarb’s seminal Holocaust novel, The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz 
Ghetto. Morgentaler’s translations have won several awards, including the Modern 
Language Association’s Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies. Her most recent book 
is a collection of Rosenfarb’s essays translated into English called Confessions of a 
Yiddish Writer, which won the 2019 Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the J.I. Se-
gal Award. She has also translated into English several short stories by the Yiddish 
classical writer I.L. Peretz. 
Ruth Panofsky, FRSC is Professor of English at Ryerson University, where she 
teaches Holocaust Literature and Canadian Jewish Literature. Her publications in-
clude the award-winning two-volume Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Crit-
ical Edition (2014), At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers 
(2008), and The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman (2006). She is 
editor of The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing (2020) and has published 
articles on Chava Rosenfarb’s “Bergen-Belsen Diary, 1945” and Bernice Eisenstein’s I 
Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors.
Anne Quéma teaches at Acadia University. Her publications include Power and Le-
gitimacy (University of Toronto Press, 2015) as well as chapters and articles in Gothic 
Studies, Philosophy and Literature, West Coast Line, and The Canadian Modernists Meet, 
Gothic Kinship, Sensing Law, and Wider Boundaries of Daring. Her critical writing on 
poetry includes essays on Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries (“Songs of Necropolitics,” Cana-
dian Literature, 2014), M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (“Metaphor, Law, and Poetry,” Jour-
nal of Law and Society, 2016), Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable (“Bioarchives of Affect,” 
Studies in Canadian Literature, 2020), and Oana Avasilichioaei’s Limbinal (“Phonotopia 
of Migrations,” Falschrum Books, 2021).
Norman Ravvin is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and critical work.  His recent 
novel of Poland and Vancouver is The Girl Who Stole Everything (Linda Leith). Other 
publications include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory, the nov-
el Lola by Night, the story collection Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish, and the 
co-edited volumes The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader and Failure’s Opposite: Listening 
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to A.M. Klein. His writing on the Holocaust has focused on such authors as Leonard 
Cohen, Mordecai Richler, and Bruno Schulz. He teaches in the Department of Re-
ligions and Cultures at Concordia University in Montreal, where he is the Interim 
Director of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies. 
Jesse Toufexis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and Religious 
Studies at the University of Ottawa. His dissertation applies Possible Worlds narra-
tive theory to North American Jewish fiction, arguing that Jewish fiction writing is 
a collective world-building enterprise by authors at different times and in different 
places, serving as a virtual home for those authors and their readers.
Lucas F.W. Wilson holds an MA in English from McMaster University, as well as 
an MTS from Vanderbilt University, with a Certificate in Jewish Studies. He is a PhD 
candidate in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University. His research mainly 
centres on second-generation Holocaust literature and oral history, but he also fo-
cuses on evangelicalism in the context of higher education. His academic work has 
also appeared in Flannery O’Connor Review and in edited collections published by the 
MLA and SUNY Press, and his public-facing work has appeared in LGBTQ Nation, 
Queerty, and RVA Magazine.


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