Nan Goodman

Nan Goodman has been selected to be a Fellow for Fall 2022 at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, she’ll be working on her current book as part of an interdisciplinary cohort of fellows exploring the theme of "Jews...

Nan Goodman, Professor, English and Jewish Studies and Editor in Chief, English Language Notes, recently published the following: “The Jewish Apostate and the American Expatriate: Leave-Taking in the Early American Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic , 41.1, 69-86, 2021 She also contributed this short piece, “Jewish Apostasy and American...

Earlier this month, Professor Nan Goodman delivered a talk titled “Hayonian Epistemology and the Tripartite Jewish God in the Age of Locke” at a conference on Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We are excited to announce the appointment of Professor Elias Sacks as the new Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. Professor Sacks succeeds Professor Nan Goodman , who will continue to serve as a faculty member with the Program in Jewish Studies and Department of English. This fall, Professor...

The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to announce that Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, has been awarded a Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence Award in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work. This award celebrates faculty contributions of the highest...

We are pleased to announce Professor Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, recently published her newest book, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination . The book is now avaliable for purchase online from...

Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation, ” in New Approaches to Puritan Studies , ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

Recently, Dr. Nan Goodman was interviewed by Chris Leppek from Intermountain Jewish News, a weekly newspaper that covers events in Colorado and surrounding states as well as Israel and Jewish communities around the world. The article, titled "Literature meets law," discusses how Dr. Goodman came into her role as the...

Nan Goodman , Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation, ” in New Approaches to Puritan Studies , ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge University Press.

In Act I, Scene 1 of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, “You Can’t Take It With You,” the character known as Grandpa, the patriarch of the eccentric Vanderhof family, returns home after attending the graduation ceremony at Columbia University, which he does every year for the sheer...