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Global Conversations: Associate Professor Devorah Baum in conversation with Dr. Andrew Dean

Melbourne Jewish Book Week

Event Date: 23 February 2023
Author / Presenters: Melbourne Jewish Book Week

Melbourne Jewish Book Week is proud to present this free event in collaboration with The Jewish Quarterly - an independent publication of literary journalism for nearly 70 years.

Devorah Baum is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Southampton. Her books include Feeling Jewish: a book for just about anyone (Yale University Press), The Jewish Joke (Profile) and the forthcoming On Marriage (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin). She co-directed the feature films The New Man and Husband. She guest edited the special issue of Granta #146 on 'The Politics of Feeling' and she has written for a range of publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Tate and the Jewish Quarterly.

Dr Andrew Dean (Deakin University) will interview Devorah on her latest essay, ‘The Myth of the Jewish Literary Mafia’ featured in the Jewish Quarterly.

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