Course Lecturer

Areas of Interest:

Modern transatlantic literature, literature and art related to Jewish history and culture

Education:

Ph.D., English, Stanford University, 2013

B.A., English, Yale University, 2006

Biography:

Emily Kopley works in two sometimes-overlapping fields: (1) transatlantic modernism and (2) literature and art related to Jewish history and culture. Her first book, the critical biography (Oxford University Press, 2021), was the subject of a 2024 forum in . On Woolf, Dr. Kopley has published articles in and , book chapters in (MLA Publications, 2021) and (Wilfred Laurier UP, 2022), and short essays in various outlets. An article of hers on anonymous authorship appears in . Dr. Kopley鈥檚 writing on Woolf has been translated into Portuguese (, trans. Tomaz Tadeu, 2023).

Dr. Kopley鈥檚 research on American theologian and novelist Arthur A. Cohen has been published in and (Indiana UP, 2015). Dr. Kopley has also written for AJS Review and . She is on the board of the Montreal Foundation for Yiddish Culture and of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies.

Dr. Kopley has given invited talks at the University of Toronto, Washington State University, the University of Haifa, Oxford University, and Harvard University. In 2021 she delivered the inaugural Fall Lecture of the International Virginia Woolf Society. She has received grants from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu茅bec, the Modern Language Association, the Association of Jewish Studies, and the Access Copyright Foundation.

Dr. Kopley also writes and speaks to an audience beyond the academy. She has published in the , the , and the . She has also spoken on the TLS podcast, CBC radio, and widely in the Montreal community.

From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Kopley was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in McGill鈥檚 English department. She subsequently taught in the English department at Universit茅 de Montr茅al and then held the position of Researcher in Residence at the Concordia University Library. In McGill鈥檚 Jewish Studies department, she teaches courses including Introduction to Jewish Literature, American Jewish Literature, Holocaust Memoirs, Jewish Children鈥檚 Literature, and Jewish Biography. She has been recognized repeatedly by McGill鈥檚 鈥淭hank a Prof鈥� program.

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