Essays and Lectures

Selected Essays

Medium Profile
White Supremacy and the Broadway Musical (Medium)
As West Side Story Returns to Broadway, It Has a Lot to Say about Race in America (Washington Post)
Can You Have a Rewarding Intellectual Life Outside Academia? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Unspoken White Supremacy of To Kill a Mockingbird (Medium)
Looking for Lesbians in God of Vengeance and Indecent (HowlRound)
Want Your Synagogue to Be Truly Inclusive? Embrace Transliteration (The Forward)
The Failure of Inclusion (EJewishPhilanthropy)
Glitter in the Woods: A Week at Camp Camp (Huffington Post)
How I Escaped from Academia (and How You Can Too) (Huffington Post)

Talks

Having taught at multiple universities in the fields of English, American Studies, Jewish Studies, and Theatre, I can give a variety of talks including:

Yiddish Poetry in America
Queer Jewish Culture in America
Key Moments in American Musical Theater History
Race and the American Musical
Jews, Whiteness, and the Broadway Musical

To book a talk, send an email to warren@warrenhoffman.com

Public Lectures

2020 has been a year of visible antiracist action, as protests have sprung up across the U.S. in response to senseless killings of Black Americans. The country is taking a hard look at systemic racism in all facets of society, from immigration policy to employment practices to the justice system.

Race and the Broadway Musical, Library of Congress

Blacks and Jews on Stage and Screen, Humanities on the Road