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Samantha Pickette

Samantha Pickette is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and the Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in American Jewish literature, film, and popular culture and is most interested in the intersection of gender and Jewish identity in representations of American Jewish life. Her work has been published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Shofar, and Studies in American Jewish Literature.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Samantha Pickette." (Viewed on October 12, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/pickette-samantha>.