Ashley Walters
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Affiliate Faculty for Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Director of Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture
EducationPhD in History, Stanford University
MA in Jewish Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
BA in Judaic Studies, SUNY Albany
BA in Anthropology, SUNY Plattsburgh
Research Interest
Ashley Walters is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies with a courtesy appointment in Women’s and Gender Studies. She also directs the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture. Her research interests include American and Eastern European Jewish history; the history of the radical left; studies of race, gender and sexuality; American and Jewish-American literature; and the history of the American South.
Courses Taught
- JWST 215 - Jewish History II: Modern-Present
- JWST 260- American Jewish History: Colonial-Present
- JWST 315 - Southern Jewish History
- JWST 300 - African Americans and Jews in US History
- JWST 201 - Bombs, Bolsheviks, and Birth Control: Jews and the Radical Left
- JWST 340/WGST 340 Jews, Gender, and Sex
Selected Publications
- Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters, eds. Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2024).
- Ashley Walters, “‘The Woman Who Wouldn’t’: Ethnnoracial displacement in early 20th century Jewish women’s proletarian fiction,” in Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2024).
- Ashley Walters, “‘Oriental Leaven:’ Anna and Rose Strunsky in the Unpublished Writings of Jack London and Sinclair Lewis,” American Jewish History 104, 2/3 (April/July 2020): 323-345.
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