Biography
Margot B. Valles (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Doctoral Minor in Jewish Studies, Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor in the department of English. She previously taught for the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Letters. Her dissertation, “Judaizing Romance and Romanticizing Judaization,” examines the way that medieval romances (including those about King Arthur) were adapted into Hebrew and Yiddish in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. She continues to explore the relationship between adaptation/translation and Jewishness in her teaching and research. Her courses include IAH 207: “Humor in 20th Century Jewish Literatures, Cultures, Identities” and ENG 356 Readings in Jewish Lit: “Jewish Masculinities.”