Ellen G. Friedman

Ellen G. Friedman is a Professor in the English Department at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), affiliated with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She teaches graduate courses in contemporary literary theory, Holocaust studies, and modern/contemporary U.S. literature, as well as undergraduate courses on Postmemory and the Holocaust, Gender and Democracy, and U.S. literature from 1900 to the present.

• Ph.D. with Distinction, New York University

Her research focuses on Holocaust narratives, Jewish survival under Stalin, and interdisciplinary memory studies. She authored The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story, which explores Polish-Jewish exile in the Soviet Union during WWII, challenging traditional Holocaust survivor paradigms. Her work has been published in Ms. Magazine, PMLA, and Modern Fiction Studies.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates with interdisciplinary programs like Holocaust & Genocide Studies at TCNJ and other institutions.