I am a first-year English Doctoral student at UC-Irvine, focusing on American Jewish Literature and comparing the American Jewish immigrant experience to the African American and Asian American experiences, specifically examining questions around generational trauma and relationships to temporality. My hope is to focus on female authors and the role of gender. I am also particularly interested in Cynthia Ozick's work and researching and writing on her later novels and essay collections. In the past I have taught American Jewish literature to high school students and created a curriculum around Jewish literature and identity building, along with leading adult Jewish book clubs and hosting an author series called, "Let's Talk," where I interviewed a variety of Jewish authors and thinkers.