Jonathan Freedman is Professor of English, American and Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan. He’s written on late-19th- and early 20th-century literature, film, and Jewish-American cultural formations.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“Transparent”: A Guide for the Perplexed
1: Jewiness “The Jewiest show ever,” proclaimed Forward in response to Amazon Studio’s available-only-online series Transparent. Recent essays from Jewish ...
What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Love and Theft in the 21st Century
"Buried not very far under the critique of racial theft is a privileging of African-American expressive culture as a resource in and of itself."...
Deconstructing De Man in the Digital Age
De Man’s life may have been scandalous, but why does his biography still strike a nerve, given deconstruction’s decline?...
