Na’amit Sturm Nagel is a Doctoral Candidate in the English department at the University of California-Irvine. Her research focuses on Jewish American literature, specifically fiction and life-writing by women during second-wave feminism and the identity politics of the late twentieth century. Her most recent publication is “The Lord of History in Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Ruth,” published in Studies in American Jewish Literature. Sturm Nagel has also published op-eds and book reviews in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Moment Magazine, Lilith, The Forward, Lehrhaus, The Jewish Journal, and Kveller.