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Name: Jane Mushabac
Dept: English
Position: Associate Professor
Education: PhD, The Graduate Center (CUNY); MA, Harvard University; BA, Cornell University
Expertise: New York City history overview; Sephardic Studies; Herman Melville
Selected Publications: A Short and Remarkable History of New York City, co-author, Fordham University Press and the Museum of the City of New York, 1999, fifth printing 2008;  “Is ‘Sephardic’ a Name Brand,” Conversations, 2010; “New Jersey,” short story, Chautauqua, 2010; Tovah: Out of Her Mind! contributing writer to Tovah Feldshuh’s Off-Broadway show, 1996, currently touring here and abroad; Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews, radio play, Midstream Yiddish/Ladino issue 2004, broadcast NPR 1992, CD Western Wind, 1992; essays on Moby-Dick in  Columbia Journal of American Studies online, 2007,  and  Approaches to Teaching Melville’s Moby-Dick,  Modern Language Association, 1985; Melville’s Humor: A Critical Study, Archon, 1981
Phone: 718.260.5346
E-mail: jmushabac@citytech.cuny.edu