Founder, JEWISH VOICES: 200 Years of Poetry in English (1998)
Faculty, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Professor, English & Jewish Studies, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
Received Rutgers's highest AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
Fellowships from the Guggenheim, Mellon, and Newberry Library Foundations
Has taught many classes on Jewish literary culture in English along the East Coast
Now writing a book about 19th century Jewish poetry written in English
Books on W. B. Yeats (Johns Hopkins UP), Gerard Manley Hopkins (California UP) and Alfred Tennyson (Michigan UP)