Nan Goodman

Nan Goodman selected to be a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Feb. 21, 2022

Nan Goodman has been selected to be a Fellow for Fall 2022 at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, she鈥檒l be working on her current book as part of an interdisciplinary cohort of fellows exploring the theme of "Jews...

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Recent Publications from Nan Goodman

March 31, 2021

Nan Goodman, Professor, English and Jewish Studies and Editor in Chief, English Language Notes, recently published the following: 鈥淭he Jewish Apostate and the American Expatriate: Leave-Taking in the Early American Republic,鈥 Journal of the Early Republic , 41.1, 69-86, 2021 She also contributed this short piece, 鈥淛ewish Apostasy and American...

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Professor Nan Goodman Delivers Talk at University of Sarajevo

Oct. 22, 2019

Earlier this month, Professor Nan Goodman delivered a talk titled 鈥淗ayonian Epistemology and the Tripartite Jewish God in the Age of Locke鈥 at a conference on Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Meet the New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies; Meghan Perea Promoted in Arts & Sciences

July 2, 2019

We are excited to announce the appointment of Professor Elias Sacks as the new Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. Professor Sacks succeeds Professor Nan Goodman , who will continue to serve as a faculty member with the Program in Jewish Studies and Department of English. This fall, Professor...

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Professor Nan Goodman Receives 2019 Excellence Award

March 11, 2019

The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to announce that Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, has been awarded a 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly Excellence Award in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work. This award celebrates faculty contributions of the highest...

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Professor Nan Goodman Publishes a New Book, "The Puritan Cosmopolis"

Feb. 16, 2018

We are pleased to announce Professor Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, recently published her newest book, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination . The book is now avaliable for purchase online from...

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Nan Goodman Publishes Article on Sabbatai Sevi

Sept. 26, 2017

Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather鈥檚 The Mystery of Israel鈥檚 Salvation, 鈥 in New Approaches to Puritan Studies , ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

Director Nan Goodman Interviewed for Intermountain Jewish News

Sept. 6, 2017

Recently, Dr. Nan Goodman was interviewed by Chris Leppek from Intermountain Jewish News, a weekly newspaper that covers events in Colorado and surrounding states as well as Israel and Jewish communities around the world. The article, titled "Literature meets law," discusses how Dr. Goodman came into her role as the...

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Director Nan Goodman publishes article on Sabbatai Sevi

Jan. 11, 2017

Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather鈥檚 The Mystery of Israel鈥檚 Salvation, 鈥 in New Approaches to Puritan Studies , ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

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End of the Year Letter from Director Nan Goodman

May 31, 2016

In Act I, Scene 1 of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, 鈥淵ou Can鈥檛 Take It With You,鈥 the character known as Grandpa, the patriarch of the eccentric Vanderhof family, returns home after attending the graduation ceremony at Columbia University, which he does every year for the sheer...

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