Essays and Lectures
Essays
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
Whiteness and the Broadway Musical as the National Museum of American Jewish History (with Warren Hoffman and Elizabeth Wollman)
The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical at the Library of Congress
Humanities on the Road: Black and Jews on Stage and Screen