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Religious Studies and Jewish Studies

Professor of World Literature, Religious Studies and Community Engagement

Specialties:

Religion, Existentialism, Kafka, Nietzsche, The Holocaust, Judaism, Jewish culture, Modern Jewish writers

Bio:

Beth Benedix is a Professor of World Literature, Religious Studies, and Community Engagement at DePauw University. She is the author of  Ghost Writer (A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story)  (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018),  Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabès  (Fordham University Press, 2003), editor of and contributor to  Subverting Scriptures: Critical Reflections on the Use of the Bible  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and a contributor of chapters, articles, introductions and reviews to a variety of collections and journals. She is Founder and Director of The Castle ( www.castlearts.org ), a non-profit organization that provides integrated-arts and project-based workshops in Putnam County, Indiana, public schools.