Sarah Hammerschlag
Assistant Professor of Religion

Office: 208 NAB
Phone: (413) 597-2448
E-mail: shammers@williams.edu

Office Hours

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

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.

Research Fields

Modern Jewish Thought (French and German)

Continental Philosophy

Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Rhetoric, Modern Literature

European Intellectual History

Program Connections

Jewish Studies