Faculty & Staff

Michelle K. Ephraim

"Father's Day with Shakespeare" The Op-Ed section of The Washington Post, June 15, 2008, page B7: (reprinted in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Capitol Times, The Miami Herald, and many other newspapers around the world).
"Jephthah's Kin: The Sacrificing Father in The Merchant of Venice," The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 5.2 (2005), 71-93
"Jewish Matriarchs and the Staging of Elizabeth I in The History of Jacob and Esau," Studies in English Literature 43.2 (2003), 301-21
"The 'Play' Within the Play: Teaching Shakespeare to Engineers," Shakespeare Yearbook XII (2001), 131-42.
"From Jewish Matriarch to Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I and The Godly Queen Hester," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 30 (2001), 605-22

“Hermione’s Suspicious Body: Adultery and Superfetation in The Winter's Tale" (Performing Maternity in Early Modern England, eds. Kathryn McPherson and Kathryn Moncrief (Ashgate, 2007).
Chapter on The Merry Wives of Windsor, in A Student's Companion to Shakespeare, Vol. II (Greenwood Press, 2005), 455-477

Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage (Ashgate Press, 2008). Publisher's description

Caroline Bicks, Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (review) in Modern Philology 103.4 (2006), 529-533
John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod, eds. The Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays (review) Shakespeare Quarterly, 55.4 (2004), 475-479
Theresa M. Krier's Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare (review) Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 3.1 (2003), 166-9
Leslie Kane's Weasels and Wisemen: Ethics and Ethnicity in the Works of David Mamet (review) Theatre Journal 52.3 (2000), 43-4

"Why I Became an English Professor: For a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Shakespeare is a Refuge" in Lilith 30.1 (2005), pp. 18-19
"A Writing Handbook for Accountants," (CD-ROM) John Wiley & Co., May, 2000 (revised 2002)
Critical Approaches to Poetry, all from Bedford/St. Martin's VirtualLit:
- "A Psychoanalytic Reading of Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Fish'"
- "A Deconstructionist Reading of Theodore Roethke's 'My Papa's Waltz'"
- "A Feminist Reading of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'"
- "A New Historicist Reading of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'"
"Fiction and the Holocaust: Must Realism Be Paramount?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 31, 1998
"Greenblatt and the Jews," Tikkun, March/April 1997 (excerpted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 18, 1997)

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