Jan 9, 2019 By: yunews
Joy Ladin, director of the Beren Writing Center at and David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, has been publishing and speaking extensively.
Brandeis University Press published her second book of creative non-fiction, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, which received a starred review in and a glowing profile in .
The book was also the subject of Judaism Unbound's of the year. The book was officially launched at the Jewish Theological Seminary, which posted a , and she also did presentations of it when she delivered the 2018 Georgia Harkness lecture at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California as well as presentations at the University of Connecticut in Stamford and at Rutgers.
Ladin was also one of the featured poets at the biennial Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey, reading and speaking on four panels in two days.
She published two essays, In the Image of God, God Created Them: Toward Trans Theology in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (34.1 (2018): 5358) and Challenges to LGBT Inclusion in Jewish Communities: A Firsthand Look in The Changing Face of the American Jewish Family (Ed. Leonard Sharzer and Burton Visotzy. NY, NY: Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious Studies, 2018. 63-68).
She also published a poem, Comfort Animal, in the current issue of , the premiere poetry magazine in the country.
