Areas of Research/Interest: Jewish mysticism and philosophy, gender construction and the history of religion, symbolism and myth, philosophical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of religious experience.
External Affiliations: Association for Jewish Studies; American Academy of Religion; World Congress of Jewish Studies; Medieval Academy of America; American Academy of Jewish Research.
Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Professor at the Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, spring 2005; National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship awarded to Language, Eros, Being, 2006; Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, fall semester 2000; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, spring 1996; American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Historical Studies, awarded to Through a Speculum That Shines, 1995; National Jewish Book Award for Excellence in Scholarship, awarded to Through a Speculum That Shines, 1995。
Select Publications:
Luminal Darkness: Imaginal Gleanings From Zoharic Literature. Oneworld Publications, 2007.
Footdreams and Treetales: 92 Poems. Fordham University Press, 2007.
Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death. University of California Press, 2006.
Venturing Beyond: Morality and Law in Kabbalistic Mysticism. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination. Fordham University Press, 2005.
Pathwings: Poetic-Philosophic Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Time and Language. Station Hill/Barrytown Press, 2004.
Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics. State University of New York Press. 1995.
Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995.
Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Princeton University Press. 1994.
Abraham Abulafia--Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy, and Theurgy. Los Angeles: Cherub Press. 2000.
Reading the Veil: Concealment and Secrecy in the History of Religions. New York: Seven Bridges Press. 1999.
