Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Ph.D.

 

 

Education
B.A. Brooklyn College; M.A. Long Island University; Ph.D. University of Chicago

Research Interests
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky writes on nineteenth-century American literature and contemporary Jewish-American literature and culture. He is the author of Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving (1988) and coeditor of People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity (1996). His upcoming book is entitled Philip Roth and Woody Allen: The Loyal Opposition (1999). He has also recently edited The "Other" Romance: Re/Viewing an American Genre (1998).

Area(s) of Specialization
20th-Century American Literature; Jewish-American Literature and Culture

Courses Taught at UCCS
He teaches Jewish-American literature and Culture; modern American poetry; American drama; American autobiography; 20th-Century American Literature; the Global Experience, especially Eastern European Literature; and Kafka. He has, on occasion, offered (and will offer in the future) seminars in individual authors including Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Philip Roth, and Toni Morrison. His primary teaching responsibility is the multicultural, polyvocal study of American literature from the later nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth. He has a particular interest in the development of the American novel, from the post-Civil War era to the contemporary period, emphasizing social, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives.

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