Caroline Rody, Professor of English and director of the English Distinguished Majors Program, teaches courses across the spectrum of multiethnic American literatures, including a survey of Jewish American fiction and a course on the historical imagination in contemporary Jewish fiction.

Her forthcoming book with Oxford University Press is “Writing the Great House: Transformations of a Topos Across World English Fiction.” Her previous books are The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Oxford, 2009) and The Daughter's Return: African American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History (Oxford, 2001). Among her articles are “Jewish Post-Holocaust Fiction and the Magical Realist Turn,” in Moments of Magical Realism in U.S. Ethnic Literatures (2012) and “The Magical Book-Within-the-Book: I. B. Singer, Bruno Schulz, and Contemporary Jewish Post-Holocaust Fiction,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century (2020). She is at work on an article titled “Are There Great Houses in Jewish Fiction?” and a book project, “House Made of Books: Essays on Contemporary Jewish Fiction.”