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Sarah Schwartzman Ramsey studies twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, with emphases on Jewish Studies, American religion, gender and sexuality studies, and narrative ethics. Spotlighting Jewish American women’s novels of the last thirty years, Sarah argues that this contemporary literature is an underexamined site for Jewish religious thought and praxis. Her dissertation examines ritualized memory work, sacred ancestral relationships, and the relationship between polyvocal narrative forms and feminist ethics. Key authors include Nicole Krauss, Rachel Kadish, Elizabeth Graver, Tova Mirvis, Allegra Goodman, Grace Paley, and Lore Segal, and well as an array of writers of young adult fiction.

Prior to doctoral study, Sarah earned a Master’s degree in Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside and served in various positions related to interdisciplinary humanities and curricular programming, college teaching, and faculty professional development. More recently, Sarah has presented work at the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), and the Society for Jewish Ethics (SJE), and she received the 2023 NRJE Wechsler Award for Emerging Scholars. Her most recent published work can be found in Studies in American Jewish Literature.