Michael Galchinsky

Michael Galchinsky is Professor of English and Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His work on Jewish women's writing includes The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (1996) and an edition of the selected writings of the Victorian Jewish writer, Grace Aguilar (2003). In addition, he is the co-editor, with David Biale and Susannah Heschel, of Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (1998), and the author of Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings (2008) and The Modes of Human Rights Literature: Towards a Culture without Borders (2016). He is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology.

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