Can We Have it All?

Seriously, what does that mean—having it all? To me it is a particularly galling question because it is almost always asked of women, not men. I was struck this past week by the powerful presence of Ketanji Brown Jackson, testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary...

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Welcome to My Website

Thanks so much for taking the next step and reading my blog.  This is my first entry for this website.  I certainly hope that you will eventually be one of the readers of my memoir Experience is the Angled Road:  Memoir of an Academic (Koehler Books), launch date...

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Barbara Gitenstein is the author of some 30 academic articles on Jewish-American Literature and academic administration as well as the monograph Apocalyptic Messianism and Jewish-American Poetry