Dr. Michael Galchinsky is a featured special guest on Saturday morning. At Georgia State University, Galchinsky teaches courses in nineteenth-century British Literature and Jewish Studies, and he serves as the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and he is currently an Associate Professor of 19th Century British Literature, Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, and Narrative Theory at Georgia State University.

In his scholarship, Dr. Galchinsky has focused on the Victorian novel, women's studies, and and Jewish history and culture. His book The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (1996) was highlighted in a 1999 special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture. As a 1998 Visiting Skirball Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he began editing a collection of the writings of the Victorian Jewish poet, novelist, and theologian Grace Aguilar, published in 2003.

He has also made forays into diaspora theory and cultural studies: he co-edited with David Biale and Susannah Heschel Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (1998). His new book Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings (2007), a study of Jewish human rights activism since World War II, combines sociology, and legal and intellectual history.

Galchinsy will be speaking Saturday morning; the title of his lecture is "Using Culture to Teach about Rights: Protest, Testimony, Laughter, Lament."

Vist Galchinsky's web page