Susan L. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is author of After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews and No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, [Writing Plague] operates as a master class in literary sensitivity and literary interpretation in historical context. The final product is a book is written with a sensibility that is informed by sophisticated self-consciousness, drawn from insights from the social sciences but in a manner of the author's own originality. Einbinder muses on the very mechanisms and media through which we come to grips with epidemic events, pushing back against the absolute claims of narrative in favor of a panoply of ways of writing, thinking, and experiencing plague. In Einbinder's hands and through her eyes, the texts come to life with empathy and in their fullness, opening up windows into the collective and personal experiences of plague, and onto plague as an occasion to understand the very values that made up a selection of early modern selves." (The Marginalia Review of Books)

Susan L. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is author of After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews and No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, [Writing Plague] operates as a master class in literary sensitivity and literary interpretation in historical context. The final product is a book is written with a sensibility that is informed by sophisticated self-consciousness, drawn from insights from the social sciences but in a manner of the author's own originality. Einbinder muses on the very mechanisms and media through which we come to grips with epidemic events, pushing back against the absolute claims of narrative in favor of a panoply of ways of writing, thinking, and experiencing plague. In Einbinder's hands and through her eyes, the texts come to life with empathy and in their fullness, opening up windows into the collective and personal experiences of plague, and onto plague as an occasion to understand the very values that made up a selection of early modern selves." (The Marginalia Review of Books)

Susan L. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is author of After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews and No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, [Writing Plague] operates as a master class in literary sensitivity and literary interpretation in historical context. The final product is a book is written with a sensibility that is informed by sophisticated self-consciousness, drawn from insights from the social sciences but in a manner of the author's own originality. Einbinder muses on the very mechanisms and media through which we come to grips with epidemic events, pushing back against the absolute claims of narrative in favor of a panoply of ways of writing, thinking, and experiencing plague. In Einbinder's hands and through her eyes, the texts come to life with empathy and in their fullness, opening up windows into the collective and personal experiences of plague, and onto plague as an occasion to understand the very values that made up a selection of early modern selves." (The Marginalia Review of Books)