Sarah Hammerschlag
Assistant Professor of Religion
Office: 208 NAB
Phone: (413) 597-2448
E-mail: shammers@williams.edu
On Leave
2009-2010
Education
B.A. Wesleyan University, 1996
M.A. Hollins College, 1997
M.A. University Of Chicago, 2001
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2006
Courses
· REL 203/JWST 101: Judaism: Innovation and Tradition
· REL 303/JWST 280/PHIL 282: The Turn to Religion in Postmodern thought
· REL 204/JWST 204/PHIL 204: Endtimes: Messianism in Modernity
· REL 271/COMP 271/ENGL 271: Religion and the Modern Literary Imagination
· REL 289T/JWST 491T/COMP 309T :Exile, Homecoming and the Promised Land
· REL 101: Introduction to Religion
Research Fields
· Modern Jewish Thought (French and German)
· Continental Philosophy
· Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Rhetoric, Modern Literature
· European Intellectual History
Program Connections
· Jewish Studies
Selected Publications
- The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. - Sowers and Sages: The Renaissance of Judaism in Postwar Paris. Monograph. (In Progress)
- “Reading May ’68 through a Levinasian Lens: Alain Finkielkraut, Maurice Blanchot and the politics of Identity” Jewish Quarterly Review, 98.4 (2008): 522-551.
- “Another, Other Abraham: Derrida’s Figuring of Levinas’s Judaism” Shofar, 26.4 (2008): 74-96
- “Troping the Jew: Jean François Lyotard’s Heidegger and ‘the jews,’” Jewish Studies Quarterly, 12.4 (2005): 371–98.