"My teaching and research interests fall into 4 categories:" 

a.) History of Religions: Myth, Mysticism, Millennialism, Body Modification, Ritual Studies, Comparative Exegesis;

b.) Jewish Studies: Bible, Midrash, Sacrifice, Temple Symbolism;

c.) Gender Studies:  Religion and Reproductive Technologies, Theories of Sexuality and Gender  

d.) Cultural Studies: Graphic Novels. 

Published Works

1. “Misconceptions: Female Imaginations and Male Fantasies in Parental Imprinting” (with Wendy      Doniger), Daedalus  127:1 (1998), 97-129.

2.  “Suffering, Jewish Concepts of,” in The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (ABC-CLIO, 2007).