Anthony Wexler received a B.A. from Yeshiva University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Since graduating from JHU, he has held research and teaching fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Northwestern University, and Colby College. He has also delivered numerous lectures and taught seminars at adult education centers across the country. In all of his classes, he aims to help students become more confident and engaged writers and thinkers.
Anthony’s research focuses on Jewish American literature and the Holocaust in American life. His writing has appeared in academic and public venues including the AJS Review, differences, Philip Roth Studies, and The Globe and Mail. He is currently completing a book project titled At a Distance of Years: The Novel of Aging in the Shadow of Auschwitz. In it, he examines how a group of late-life novels challenge the ways the Holocaust has been received and represented in American life.
Before returning to JHU, Anthony was a lecturer in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University. While at Case, he was nominated for the J. Bruce Jackson, M.D., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring, and he won The Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Undergraduate Courses:
Reintroduction to Writing: On the Road in America
The Future of Holocaust Memory
Graduate Courses:
Writing Methods: Writing to Publish in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Special Topics in Writing: Teaching Writing Workshop
- Writing Studies
- American Jewish Literature and Culture
- Religion and Literature
- Representations of the Holocaust
- Jewish Studies