People

People

  • Miriam Jaffe
  • Miriam Jaffe
  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • At Rutgers Since: 1996
  • Phone Number: 8482025661
  • Miriam_Jaffe_CV_2025_6.pdf
  • Office Hours: By Appointment
  • Books:

    DeGuire, L. & Jaffe, M. (Eds.). (2025). Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference. Routledge.

     

    Kenny, M. & Jaffe, M. (Eds.). (2022). Social work in the age of disconnection. Routledge.

    Jaffe, M., Nicola, W., Floersch, J., & Longhofer, J. (Eds.). (2020). Spirituality in mental health practice: Case studies. Routledge.

    Jaffe, M., Conti, M., Floersch, J., & Longhofer, J. (Eds.). (2020). Social work and LGBTQ sexual trauma. Routledge.

    Jaffe, M., Conti, M., Floersch, J., & Longhofer, J. (Eds.). (2019). Social work and sexual trauma. Routledge.

    Jaffe, M., Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Winograd, W. (Eds.). (2017). Social work and K-12 schools. Routledge.
  • Awards:
      • 2022: Beloved Community Writing Award
    • 2008: Departmental Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Rutgers University
    • 2007: Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University
    • 2007: Departmental Graduate Achievement Award, Rutgers University
    • 2006: Mellon Dissertation Seminar, Princeton University
    • 2004: The Maurice Meyer III and Irma Meyer Endowed Student Fellowship
    • 2002: Pre-Dissertation Travel Award, Rutgers University
    • 2002: Graduate Assistantship to Richard Miller, Assistant Director of Writing Program
    • 2000: Bevier Fellowship, Rutgers University, Department of Literatures in English
  • Other Information of Interest:

     

     
  • Membership Affiliations:

    Philip Roth Society
  • Publications:

     

    Puddu, R., Jaffe, M., & Pozorski, A. (2026). Philip Roth’s Haunts: Liminal Spaces and Metaphysical States in Exit Ghost. Contemporary Literature. 66(3).

     

    Jaffe, M., Kelly, E.K., Kafle, M., Tam, B. (2024). Finding a pedagogy of empathy of empathy in a common read project. IRB Approved. Studies for Teaching in Higher Education. 30(2), 396–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2324727

     

    Jaffe, M. (2024). Kafka in the classroom: What we learn from Roth’s teaching notes. Philip Roth Studies. 20(1).

     

    Jaffe, M. (2024). Roth’s legacy and cancel culture. The Bloomsbury Guide to Philip Roth. Aimee Pozorski & Maren Shuerer (Eds.).

     

    Jaffe, M. & de Segovia de Kraker, L. (2023). Book Review: Human Blues. Philip Roth Studies, 19(2), 108-111.

     

    Hembrough, T., & Jaffe, M. (2022). Recognizing and examining the value of professional writing. Writing and Pedagogy, 14(2), 157–158. https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.24068

     

    Jaffe, M., Nicola, W., & Bembry, N. (Social Work Writing Collective). (2022). Integrated literacy instruction for social work educators as anti-racist pedagogy. Critical and Radical Social Work, 1-15. doi.org/10.1332/204986021X16554589377161

    Jaffe, M., Kelly, E. K., Williams, A., Beroiza, A., Kafle, M., & DiGiacomo, M. (2021). Collaboration and potential space: Creative play in the writing alliance. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-16. doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1989581

    Jaffe, M. (2021). Narrative medicine. Philip Roth in context. (M. McKinley, Ed.). Cambridge University Press.

    Jaffe, M. (2021). The practice of close reading in social work education. Writing & Pedagogy. 12(1).

    Jaffe, M. (2017). Case and frame: Teaching case study composition. Clinical Social Work Journal, 45(3), 285-292.

    Pozorski, A. & Jaffe, M. (2017). Writing progeny: Elisa Albert and Philip Roth. Open Library of Humanities, 3(2).

    Jaffe, M. (2016). To sing the body sidatique: AIDS in Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein. RFEA, (2). 10-21.

    Jaffe, M. (2014). Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture. ed. by Paul Miller and Daniel Morris. Studies in American Jewish Literature, 33(2). 272-275.

    Jaffe, M. (2014). Roth's contribution to the narrativization of illness. Comparative Literature and Culture, 16(2), 3-10.

    Jaffe, M. (2013). Psychosis and the city: Jew York in Saul Bellow’s The Victim. The Saul Bellow Journal. 26(1-2), 41-56.

    Jaffe, M. (2013). Philip Roth and the autobiographical gesture. Critical insights series. (A. Pozorski, Ed.). EBSCO.

    Jaffe, M. (2013). A mentality of manipulation: The (r)evolution of Philip Roth. Philip Roth—the continuing presence: New essays on psychological themes. (J. Statlander-Slote, Ed.). Northeast Books and Publishing. 99-108.

    Jaffe, M. (2013). Book Review: Allison Schachter’s “Diasporic Modernisms.” Philip Roth Studies. (D. Parker, Ed.). 9(1). 115-117.

    Jaffe, M. & Pozorski, A. (2012). Anything but fragile and yielding: Women of Roth’s recent tetralogy. Philip Roth Studies. (D. Gooblar, Ed.). 8(1). 81-94.

    Jaffe, M. (2012). Philip Roth: Death and celebrity. Roth and celebrity. (A. Pozorski, Ed.). Lexington. 67-78.

    Jaffe, M. (2008). Black-Jewish doubling in The Tenants and The Human Stain. Philip Roth Studies. 4(1). 47-56.

    Jaffe, M. (2007). Book review: Elisa Albert’s How This Night is Different. Studies in American Jewish Literature. 109-111.

    Jaffe, M. (2002). Keeping it all together: Emotional intelligence in the classroom. Using the new humanities reader teacher’s manual. (K. Spellmeyer & R. Miller, Eds.). Houghton Mifflin.

    Special Issue Journal Editorships:

    Jaffe, M. Guest Editor. Roth@90 Special Issue. Philip Roth Studies. 19(2) (2023).

     

    Jaffe, M. (2013). Teaching writing with technology. Writing and Pedagogy. 5(2).

    Pozorski, A., & Jaffe, M. (2009). Mourning Zuckerman. Philip Roth Studies. 5(2).