Donald Weber
 Lucia,
Ruth and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English &
Chair of English
112
Shattuck Hall
312 Shattuck Hall
(413) 538-2062
(413) 538-2279
dweber@mtholyoke.edu
Education
B.A. State University of New York
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Current research interests: a comparison of UK-US debates on multiculturalism.
Selected Publications
Haunted in the New
World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to 'The Goldbergs' (Indiana
University Press, 2005)
"
Powers of Empathy:
Hollywood's Representation of Jews in Crossfire
and Gentleman's Agreement, in Key Texts in American Jewish
Culture ed. Jack Kugelmass
(forthcoming, Rutgers Univ. Press)
"
Accents of the Future," entry
on Popular culture in Cambridge
Companion to American Jewish Literature ed. Michael P. Kramer
and Hana Wirth-Nesher
(forthcoming, Cambridge Univ. Press)
"
Shame and Self hatred in the Early Fiction
of John Fante," in John Fante: A Critical Gathering,
ed. Stephen Cooper and David Fine (forthcoming, Farleigh Dickison
Univ.
Press), pp. 65-76.
"Taking
Jewish American Popular Culture Seriously: The Yinglish Worlds
of Gertrude Berg, Milton Berle, and
Mickey Katz," Jewish Social Studies 5 (1999), 124-53.
"Manners
and Morals, Civility and Barbarism: The Cultural Contexts of Seize the Day," in
New Essays on Seize the Day, ed. Michael P. Kramer (New York,
Cambridge Univ. Press 1998), pp. 43-70.
"The Jewish American World of Gertrude
Berg: The Goldbergs on Radio and Television,
1930-1950," in Talking
Back: Representations of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture,
ed. Joyce Antleer (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1998), pp.
85-99; 260-63.
"'No
Secrets Were Safe From Me': Situating Hanif Kureishi," The Massachusetts Review 39 (1997), 119-35.
"Memory
and Repression in Early Ethnic Television: The Example of Gertrude
Berg and
The Goldbergs," in The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons,
ed. Joel Foreman (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996), pp. 144-67.
"Outsiders
and Greenhorns: Christopher Newman in the Old World, David Levinsky
in the New" American
Literature 67 (1995), 725-36.
"From
Limen to Border: A Meditation on the Legacy of Victor Turner for
American Cultural Studies," American
Quarterly 47 (1995), 525-36.
Reconsidering
the Hansend Thesis: Generational Metaphors and American Ethnic
Studies," American Quarterly
43 (1991), 320-332.
"Historicizing
the Errand," American
Literary History 2 (1990), 101-18.
Teaching Schedule 2007-2008
English 101f Multicultural Families
English 345f Henry James into Film
English 337s The Political Imagination in Contemporary South Africa
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