Selected Talks
“When A Woman Gives Birth to a Raven: Gynecology and Zoology According to the Rabbis,” OSU, 2019
“Species: Rabbis, Humans, and Other Animals in Late Antiquity,” Columbia University, 2019
“Did the Rabbis of the Mishnah do Biology?” in “Is Ancient STS an Anachronism?” in TempoRealities, STS Symposium, University of Michigan, 2019
“What is a Human?” with Mike Chin, Scarab Club, Detroit, 2018
Additional invited talks and presentations at Princeton, UT Austin, New College Florida, Duke, Northwestern, University of Virginia, Yale University, Hebrew University, University of Kentucky, The Institute for Advanced Study, T'chiyah, and more.
I am an AJS Distinguished Lecturer, a program through which my speaker's fees are donated to the Association for Jewish Studies
Selected Workshops/Seminars
“Making Antiquity,” workshop in which participants use creative media (drawing, zine-making, fiction and non fiction prose etc.) to generate speculative histories
“Comics for Burned Out Academics,” workshop designed to engage playfulness, silliness, and improvisation as alternate, (dare we say) healing modalities for those who have been bruised by institutions of the academy and its disciplining of how knowledge is made and authority is bestowed
“Talmud for Beginners”
“Ancient Jewish Studies & Science Studies,” Graduate seminar, Columbia University, 2019
"Vision, Gender, Sexuality," Seminar, New College Florida, 2016
“Lust of the Eyes: Rabbis, Gender and the Gaze,” Seminar, Religious Studies Dept., University of Virginia, 2011
“Desiring Rabbis," two-part visit to History of Sexuality course, History Department, University of Michigan, 2017
“Talmudic Sexualities: Beyond Binaries,” Limmud Michigan, Wayne State University, 2017
Selected Classes Taught
Sex & Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture
Jewish Visual Culture from Antiquity to the Present
What is a Human? Nature and Knowledge in Antiquity
Letter and Spirit in Early Judaism and Christianity
Introduction to the Talmud and the Rabbis
Jewish Bodies/Jewish Texts
Space and Spatiality in Antiquity
Ritual Theory in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Body and the Senses in Antiquity
Ancient Law