Philippe Codde is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Ghent University. He has published articles on a variety of topics in journals including Poetics Today, Yiddish (Modern Jewish Studies), Partial Answers, Studies in American Fiction, English Language Notes, and the Saul Bellow Journal, as well as in volumes such as Lost on the Map of the World: Jewish-American Women's Quest for Home in Essays and Memoirs, and Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature.