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Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

Luke’s teaching specialisms include sociology of religion, political philosophy, antisemitism, Freud and psychoanalytic sociology, and Jewish history and literature

Research Interests

Luke’s research is primarily focused on fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish literature, particularly Amy Levy, and on representations of Shekhinah in Jewish mystical literature

Professional Bodies

Senior Fellow of the HEA

Member of Jewish Historical Society

Publications

Amy Levy: Collected Writings (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)

“‘Zion, Memory and Hope of All Ages’: Nina Davis Salaman’s Romantic-Zionist poetry.” Literature and Theology (Oxford ºüÀêÊÓƵ Press) (2021): 1-23.

“Active/Passive, ‘Diminished’/‘Beautiful,’ ‘Light’ from Above and Below: Rereading Shekhinah’s Sexual Desire in Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs).” Feminist Theology (Sage) 28, no. 3 (2020): 297-315.

“‘I Sleep, but my Heart Waketh’: Contiguity between Heinrich Heine’s ‘Imago’ of the Shulamite and Amy Levy’s ‘Borderland.’” Association for Jewish Studies Review (Cambridge ºüÀêÊÓƵ Press) 40, no. 2 (2017): 219-240.

“Kedushah in Anglo-Liberal Judaism: Lily Montagu’s Employment of the Holy in the Everyday.” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Toronto) 13, no. 2 (2017): 1-27.

“Shekhinah as ‘Shield’ to Israel: Refiguring the Role of Divine Presence in Jewish Tradition and the Shoah.” Feminist Theology (Sage) 25, no. 1 (2016): 62-88.

“How Shekhinah became the God(dess) of Jewish Feminism.” Feminist Theology (Sage) 23, no. 1 (Sept., 2014): 71-91.

“Emergent Liberal Judaism and Lily Montagu’s Proto-Feminist Project: Exploring the Precursive and Conceptual Links with Second-Wave Jewish Feminism.” Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Manchester) 9 (2012): 1-20.

“Exile and Redemption: Amy Levy’s Association with Yehuda Halevi and the Transmission of the Sephardic Tradition of Hebrew Poetry.” Literature and Theology (Oxford ºüÀêÊÓƵ Press) 26, no. 2 (June 2012): 125-43.

“Rethinking the Book of Esther: Hermeneutics and Shechinah Theology in the Poetry of Amy Levy‏‏.” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Toronto) 9, no. 2 (2012): 1-17.

“Imagining Fin-de-Siècle Anglo-Jewish Minority Sub-Genres: Proto-Feminist Visions of Religious Reform in ‘East’ and ‘West End’ London in Amy Levy’s Reuben Sachs and Lily Montagu’s Naomi’s Exodus.” Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Manchester) 8 (2011): 69-83.

Lily Montagu’s Shekhinah (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011).

Second-Wave Jewish Feminism, 1971-1991: Foundational Theology and Sacral Discourse (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011).

“Reading Jewish Identity, Spiritual Alienation, and Reform Judaism through the Veil of Abstract Self-Hatred, Racial Degeneration, and Anti-Semitism in Julia Frankau’s Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll.” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Toronto) 8, no. 1 (2011): 1-20.

“‘The Ghetto at Florence’: Reading Jewish Identity in Amy Levy’s Early Poetry, 1880-1886.” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History (Indiana ºüÀêÊÓƵ Press/Project Muse) 31, no. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2011): 1-30.

From Anglo-First-Wave towards American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism: Negotiating with Jewish Feminist Theology and its Communities in the Writing of Amy Levy (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2010).

Review of Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow, Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016). Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Toronto) 13, no. 1 (2016): 1-10.

Review of Diane Wyshogrod, Hiding Places: A Mother, A Daughter, an Uncovered Life (Albany: State ºüÀêÊÓƵ of New York Press – Excelsior Editions, 2012). Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Toronto) 11, no. 2 (2014): 1-4.

Review of Jan Feldman, Citizenship, Faith, & Feminism: Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights (Waltham: Brandeis ºüÀêÊÓƵ Press, 2011). Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Toronto) 11, no. 1 (2014): 1-6.