Monica
My blogs
- Reading the Bible as Literature
- Dreaming Without Memory in Strangled Sleep
- Great American Books
- Martini Rabbi
- The American Literary Response to Trauma
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer and Former Professor |
| Location | Studio City, California, United States |
| Introduction | I am a writer, storyteller, and former professor (UCLA, Pepperdine, LMU, Purdue) with expertise in representations of trauma, multi-ethnic literatures, Christianity and Judaism, immigrant narratives, and Critical Theory (I'm a graduate of the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory). I love to create stories. I adore books, wine, traveling, and shoes. I wrote a book called THE MIDRASHIC IMPULSE AND THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY RESPONSE TO TRAUMA and have published pieces in Newsweek, The New Republic, The Jewish Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, and other places. |
| Interests | Trauma, Religion, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Latino/a Narraties, Critical Race Theory, Midrash, Levinas, Blanchot, Immigrant Narratives, 20th-21st Century American Fiction, Judaism and Christianity, Holocaust Studies, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Post-WWII German Film, Wine, Shoes, Travel, Italy, Spain |
| Favorite Movies | Call Me By Your Name, Run Lola Run, A Bigger Splash, The Motorcycle Diaries, Walk the Line, The Constant Gardener, The Decalogue, Tsotsi, The Virgin Suicides, The Royal Tenenbaums, Biutiful, Dodgeball, The Lives of Others, Wings of Desire, Fugitive Pieces, One Thousand Times Goodnight, After the Wedding, The Invitation |
| Favorite Music | The XX, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Imogen Heap, Solomon Burke, Missy Higgins, Tupac, Andrew Bird, Angus and Julia Stone, Ari Hest, Lykke Li, Idan Raichel, Band of Skulls, The Kills, LP, Amy Shark |
| Favorite Books | City of God, Love (Toni Morrison), The Nakedness of the Fathers, Wide Sargasso Sea, Linda Hogan's Dwellings, Nine Talmudic Readings, The Far Euphrates, Blindness, I and Thou, The Writing of the Disaster, The Dying Animal, Heir To the Glimmering World, See: Under Love, The God of Small Things, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, Endgame, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, White Noise, Due Preparations for the Plague, The Winter Vault, People of the Book, The Magicians, Orpheus Lost |