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  Jonathan Freedman
Professor

U of M Affiliation(s)
Department of English Language & Literature
Program in American Culture
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies


Ph.D., Yale, 1985


Contact Information:
435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003
3036 Angell Hall
Phone: 734.764.0475
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email: zoid@umich.edu

Fields of Study: Late 19th-century British American literature.
Secondary Fields of Study: Cultural theory, film.


About Jonathan Freedman:

The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Website



Department of English Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/faculty/fibDetail.asp?ID=247

Personal Website
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~zoid/

Publications:

Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2008)

The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Aggression, and the Making of Literary Anglo-America (Oxford University Press, 2000).

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James (1997), Oscar Wilde: New Century Views (Prentice Hall, 1996, both edited collections).

“Henry James and the Problem of Anti-Semitism,” Between Race and Culture, in Bryan Cheyette, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture (Stanford University Press, 1990).

“Degeneration, Assimilation, and the Jew in Henry James’ The Golden Bowl,” (ALH, 1995).

“From Spellbound to Vertigo: Alfred Hitchcock and Therapeutic Culture in America” in Hitchcock's America.

“Autocanonization: Tropes of Self-Legitimization in ‘Popular Culture’,” (Yale Journal of Criticism, 1, Fall, 1987).





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