Bio
Dr. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, originally from Vancouver, is a researcher and scholar of contemporary Jewish literature from the early writings of Mendele Mokher Sforim (Shalom Abramovitch) to current authors, such as Nathan Englander and Shalom Auslander. She teaches at Herzog College and the Schechter Institute, and has presented her work at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Israel and Korea. She is also part of the faculty of the Pardes Institute’s Summer and Winter Seminars. Her most recent article in Holocaust Studies is “Transgressive Post-Holocaust Narratives,” which examines literary texts that contend with Holocaust institutionalization, and her book, Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values, was released in 2022 (McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Dr. Mauer is also involved in community education, presently annually at the Masorti Women’s Study Day in Jerusalem, guiding book groups in her local community and presenting workshops and seminars to English education professionals.
Selected Publications
- Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Values (August 2022). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- “Breaking Down Jewish Love and Identity in Post-modern Times” (Review Essay on Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination and Re-imagining Jewish Identites by Efraim Sicher) forthcoming in the Journal of Jewish Identities. Winter 2023.
- “Transgressive Post-Holocaust Narratives: Mordecai Richler to Nathan Englander,” in Holocaust Studies (April 7, 2021) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2021.1902193
- “Women in Mordecai Richler’s Novels: Is There a Problem?” in Studies in American Jewish Literature. (Vol.2) 2016: 178–186.
- “The Truth About Montreal and Lies My Father Told Me,” in The Canadian Student Jewish Studies Journal. Montreal: Concordia University, 2008.
- “The Female Threat in Genesis,” Women in Judaism. University of Toronto. Web. www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism. Web. May 15, 2000.