Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides

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Education

• DS, Jewish Studies, 2017, The Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership 
• MA, 1992, Carnegie Mellon University
• BS, 1990, Columbia University

Teaching

• ENG 110
• ENG 210
• ENG 221
• ENG 310
• ENG 330
• ENG 361
• ENG 362

Professional experience

Selected non-fiction publications

• “Changes in the Ashkanormative nature of SciFi stories,” with Valeria Frankel, in Anthology: Jewish Fantasy: International and/or Minority Cultures, Valerie Frankel, Ed. Lexington Pub., forthcoming.
• “Golems in Television and Movies,” in Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, Valerie Frankel, ed. Lexington Pub., 2022.
• “Jewish Sioux Falls,” in The History of Sioux Falls, Jon Lauck and Patrick Hicks, ed., Belt Pub., 2022, forthcoming.
• Jews of Missouri: an ornament to Israel. Ozarks Studies Institute, 2021.
• Creating Community: The Jews of Springfield, Missouri. Greene County Historical Society, 2021
• The Evolution of the Non-liturgical Parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Haggadah, deGruyter, 2017.
• “Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman's Story,” in Judaism and Gender, Leonard Greenspoon, ed., Purdue UP, 2021, pp. 123-134, forthcoming.
• “Exploring Midwestern v. Great Plains Regional Variation By Way of the Jewish Immigrant Experience,” in Search of the Interior Borderlands: Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?, Jon Lauck, ed., Augustana University, 2019.
• Guest Editor. OzarksWatch: The Magazine of the Ozarks — Special Issue: Documenting Jews of the Ozarks, vol. 12, no. 1&2, 1999.

Selected fiction publications

• We are in Exile/Estamos en Galut, Hakadosh, 2016.
• A Shout in the Sunshine, The Jewish Publication Society, 2007

Research and professional interests

• American Judaism
• Jewish literature

Awards and honors