Ellen G. Friedman is an American author, editor, and Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies at
The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a public university in Ewing Township, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Established in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, TCNJ was the first normal school, ...
where she serves as Coordinator of the
Holocaust
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and Genocide Studies program. Friedman is on the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Honors Faculties. She is the advisor to The Women's Center. Her current research is in cultural and gender studies.
Education
Friedman received her M.A. from
Queens College
Queens College (QC) is a public college in the New York City borough of Queens. Part of the City University of New York system, Queens College occupies an campus primarily located in Flushing.
Queens College was established in 1937 and offe ...
and earned her Ph.D. in English with Distinction from
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
.
Teaching
Friedman teaches undergraduate English courses on topics such as Modern American Literature; Contemporary American Fiction; Postmodern Fiction; Morality in Contemporary American Literature and Film; American Literature: 1860–1920; Women Writers; Representations of the Holocaust; and Literary Theory. Friedman also teaches undergraduate Women's & Gender Studies courses on topics such as Feminist Theories; Gender and Democracy; and a Senior Seminar: Postmemory & the Holocaust
Friedman also teaches select graduate courses & tutorials on topics such as Contemporary American Fiction Modern American Literature; Postmodern Fiction; Virginia Woolf; William Faulkner; Women Writers; Gender Trouble: Theory and Literature; Representations of the Holocaust; Feminist Literary Theory & 20th-century Women Writers; and Joyce Carol Oates
Publications
Books:
* ''Issues of Gender''. Co-edited with Jen Marshall. February, 2004.
* ''Morality USA''. Co-authored with Corinne Squire. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press,1998.
* ''Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook From The New Jersey Project''. With Charley Flint, Wendy Kolmar, and Paula Rothenberg. New York: Teacher's College Press. Athene Series, 1996. Principal editor and contributor.
* ''Utterly Other Discourse: The Texts of
Christine Brooke-Rose
Christine Brooke-Rose (16 January 1923 – 21 March 2012) was a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her experimental novels.
* ''Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction with Miriam Fuchs''. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1989. Co-editor and contributor.
* ''
Joan Didion
Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.
Didio ...
: Essays and Conversation''. Princeton: Ontario Review P, 1984. Editor and contributor.
* ''
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels ''Black ...
''. New York: Ungar, 1980. Paperback 1984.
Articles:
* “Sexing the Text: Women’s Experimental Fiction in the Twentieth Century.” ''Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature''. Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, Editors. London: Routledge, 2012: 154–67.
* “
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that deal ...
: Wandering Jew.” Forward ''Kathy Acker: Transnationalism''. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol, eds. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009: xi-xx.
* “Out-of-the-Box Education: An Innovative New Jersey Program Takes Women’s Studies Back to Elementary School.”
Ms Magazine
''Ms.'' is an American feminist magazine co-founded in 1971 by journalist and social/political activist Gloria Steinem. It was the first national American feminist magazine. The original editors were Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Mary Thom, Patricia ...
. October 2008.
* “Post-Patriarchal Endings: Some New American Fiction.”
Modern Fiction Studies
''Modern Fiction Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1955 at Purdue University's Department of English, where it is still edited. It publishes general and themed issues on the topic of modernist and contemporary fiction u ...
. 48 (fall 2002): 693–712.
*“ ‘Utterly Other Discourse’: The Anti-Canon of Women Experimental Writers from Dorothy Richardson to Christine Brooke-Rose.”
Modern Fiction Studies
''Modern Fiction Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1955 at Purdue University's Department of English, where it is still edited. It publishes general and themed issues on the topic of modernist and contemporary fiction u ...
(fall 1988): 353- 70.
* “Where Are the Missing Contents: (Post)Modernism, Gender, and the Canon.” PMLA, March 1993: 240–52.
Panels, Conferences, Public Lectures, Interviews
* “Sexing the Text: Women’s Experimental Fiction in the Twentieth Century.” Invited Lecture.
University of Turku
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, Finland. May 5, 2012
* “Bicycles and Chicken Farms: A Holocaust Story from The Seven. “ Visiting Scholar and Speaker at the Center for Biographical Research,
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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. Oct. 13th, 2011.
* “Herstories—For kids: Training Teachers as Gender Thinkers.” Gender and Education Association International Conference. London, March 2009. Panelist.
* Interviewed by Australia National Public Radio. Invited to be interviewed in November 2004 by Carmel Howard at studio in New York City for national broadcast on morality and Joyce Carol Oates.
* “Is the Category Woman the Same as the Category ‘Frau’”? Keynote Speaker. Approaching America: European Views-Transatlantic Perspectives: International Symposium on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Center for North American Studies (ZENAF).
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat
Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...
. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 21–22 January 2000.
* “Where Have All the Fathers Gone: Contemporary American Fiction.” Invited Lecture. W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures in American Studies.
Humboldt-Universitat
The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, ...
. Berlin, Germany. 25 January 2000.
* Panelist. C a.m. Canada Television, CTV. September 21, 1998. “Morality and the American Presidency.”