EDUCATION
1999  Ph.D., Northwest Semitic Philology, The University of Chicago.

1995  M.A., Northwest Semitic Philology, The University of Chicago.

1992  B.A., Literature, Bennington College.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006 - present   Lecturer I of Northwest Semitic Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2001 - 2006  Adjunct Assistant Professor in the History Department, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.

2001 - 2006  Adjunct Assistant Professor in the English Department, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY.

GRANT AWARDS
Winter 2007   Grant from the Lecturers' Professional Development Fund to create the website www.introlessonsinaramaic.com, a website that introduces Aramaic to individuals that have no experience with Hebrew or other languages.

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach (Studies in Biblical Literature 9; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004).

"Even unto a Spark: An Analysis of the Parallelistic Structure in the Wisdom of Ben Sira 40:11-44:15" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1999).

Articles
"Imaginary Texts in Pseudepigraphal Literature: The Angelic Hymns of Job’s Daughters in The Testament of Job," Henoch: forthcoming.

"Sirach 51:13-30 and 11Q5 (=11QPsa) 21.11-22.1," Revue de Qumran: 23/90 (2007): 207-231.

"The Poetry of 4Q416 2 iii 15-19," Dead Sea Discoveries 13 (2006): 177-193.

"Remarks on Ben Sira's 'Instruction on Shame,' Sirach 41:14-42:8," Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (2003): 388-400.

"Prelude to the Praise of the Ancestors, Sirach 44:1-15," Hebrew Union College Annual 72 (2002): 1-14.

"The Poetry of the Wisdom of Solomon Reconsidered," Vetus Testamentum 52 (2002): 385-399.

"Sirach 40:18-27 as T9ob-Spruch," Biblica 82 (2001): 84-92.

"Elephantine" in The Reader's Guide to Judaism, ed. Michael Terry (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).

Reviews
Review of "As Those Who Are Taught," The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL, edited by Claire Mathews McGinnis and Patricia K. Tull, Journal of Near Eastern Studies: forthcoming.

Review of Semitic Papyrology in Context: A Climate of Creativity; Papers from a New York University conference marking the retirement of Baruch A. Levine, edited by Lawrence H. Schiffman, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66 (2007): 298.

Review of Forgiveness in a Wounded World: Jonah's Dilemma, by Janet Howe Gaines, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66 (2007): 224.

Review of A Time to Tear Down and A Time to Build Up, by Michael V. Fox, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 61 (2002): 319-320.

Poetry
"Dead Letters, 500 B.C.E.," New Orleans Review: forthcoming.

"Filled like a Brush," Potomac Review 43 (2008): 32.

"Buddha's Smile," Cortland Review 84 (February, 2008), www.cortlandreview.com.

"Cock's Crow," "Aerialists," "In the Time of the Tang," Portland Review 54 (2007): 21-23.

"To Ohio," Cimarron Review 146 (2004): 77.

"One Iota," New Orleans Review 29 (2003): 95.

"Eastern Pennsylvania," Red River Review, www.redriverreview.com, August 2001.

"Phoenix," Poems Niederngasse, www.niederngasse.com, May, 2001.

"Composition," Plasmotica, www.plasmotica.com, 2000.

WORKS IN PROGRESS
"The Poetry of the Heavenly Other," in the forthcoming Festschrift for John J. Collins, eds. Daniel Harlow, et al. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, forthcoming in 2010.

The Poetry and Parallelism of the Non-Masoretic Poems of 11Q5.

WEB SITE
www.introlessonsinaramaic.com  This website provides lessons to those who wish to learn Aramaic but who have no knowledge of Hebrew or other languages, ancient or modern. The lessons were developed from my work teaching Aramaic at the University of Michigan.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Biblical Literature
American Oriental Society
American Schools of Oriental Research

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