NEW BOOK!

My new book, Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces was published by Rutgers University Press in January 2026. Through an archive of contemporary memoirs that grapple with Jewish experiences of war, Graphic War makes visible the consequences of state structures, militarized environments, and nationalisms on the female body and in doing so registers a shift from the persistent Jewish identification with 20th-century oppression toward a narrative of Jewish belonging based in transnational agency and activism in the 21st Century.

In addition to my recent book, Graphic War, I publish about war and memory in digital games and graphic narratives. My article, “Security Games: The Coded Logics of the Playable War on ISIS” (Critical Studies on Security 6.1) argues that the coded logics of digital war games mimic cultural structures that make up contemporary understandings of security in the current war on ISIS. My essay in Studies in Comics (6.2) titled “Contested Spaces in Graphic Narratives” argues that devices within the graphic form allow for a complex visual understanding of affective attachment to the state through possibilities of graphic, bordered texts that cut across traditional understandings of territoriality and occupation.  An overview of my work in the University of Wisconsin DesignLab and of my interest in literary media design is available on the UW-Madison Writing Center Blog.

ABOUT

I am currently Associate Professor of English and Humanities at SUNY Canton where I teach courses in contemporary American literature, digital media writing, and narrative and mobile games. I received my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015 and my M.A. in literature from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research examines rhetorical infrastructures across emerging media genres such as graphic narratives, hybrid storyscapes, and digital games in order to investigate the ways that media forms are shifting cultural attachments to contested territory in the U.S. and Israel-Palestine.