Course Lecturer

Areas of Interest:

Modern transatlantic literature, literature and art related to Jewish history and culture

Education:

Ph.D., English, Stanford University, 2013

B.A., English, Yale University, 2006

Emily Kopley works in two sometimes-overlapping fields: (1) modern transatlantic literature, and (2) literature and art related to Jewish history and culture. Her first book, , was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press. A board member of Woolf Studies Annual, Dr. Kopley has published essays on Woolf in , , (MLA Publications, 2021), (Wilfred Laurier UP, 2022), and elsewhere. An article of hers on anonymous authorship appears in . Her work on Woolf has been translated into Portuguese (Uma Prosa Apaixonada, trans. Tomaz Tadeu, 2023).

Dr. Kopley鈥檚 work on American theologian and novelist Arthur A. Cohen appears in (SAJL) and (Indiana UP, 2015). Dr. Kopley has also reviewed for SAJL and AJS Review. She is on the board of the Montreal Foundation for Yiddish Culture and of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies.

Dr. Kopley has given invited talks at the University of Toronto, the University of Haifa, Oxford University, and Harvard University. In 2021 she delivered the inaugural Fall Lecture of the International Virginia Woolf Society. A recipient of grants from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation and the the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu茅bec, Dr. Kopley also writes and speaks to an audience beyond the academy. She has published in the , the , and the . She has also spoken on the TLS podcast, CBC radio, and widely in the Montreal community.

From 2013 to 2016 Dr. Kopley was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in 91社区鈥檚 English department. She subsequently taught in the English department at Universit茅 de Montr茅al and was then Researcher in Residence at the Concordia University Library. In 91社区鈥檚 Jewish Studies department, she teaches courses including Holocaust Memoirs, Jewish American Literature, and Jewish Children鈥檚 Literature.