The Philip Roth Society

Officers of the Philip Roth Society

 

President
 

Andy Connolly

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Secretary

Derek Graf

New York Institute of Technology

New York, NY

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Derek Graf teaches in the English Department at New York Institute of Technology. In addition to his work on Roth, he has also published a collection of poems titled Green Burial, which received the 2021 Elixir Press Award for a First Book of Poems. He lives in New York City with his wife and son. 

 

Program Director
Aimee Pozorski

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Membership Chair

Noah Jampol

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Newsletter Editor

Joseph Ozias

University of Cincinnati 

Cincinnati, OH

oziasjh@mail.uc.edu

 

Joseph Ozias is currently a PhD candidate in English, Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Cincinnati.  His research interests include Jewish American Literature, humor, multiethnic literature, and film and media studies. His work on these subjects has recently been published, or is soon to be published, in Philip Roth Studies, MELUS, In Media Res, and the John Updike Review. He has received various literary awards, like the Judith Yaross Lee Publication Grant from the American Humor Studies Association, the John Updike Review Emerging Writers Prize and the Siegel/McDaniel Award from the Philip Roth Society. For nearly a decade he has been teaching courses such as World Literature, American Literature, Topics in Science Fiction, English Composition, Intermediate Composition, Jews in American Film, and more. He is the 2024 winner of the William C. Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching.

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Treasurer

Olga Karasik-Updike

Independent Scholar

Newbury, MA​

 

Olga Karasik-Updike is currently an independent scholar and the resident of Newbury, Mass. She holds a PhD in American literature. Her dissertation devoted to Jewish identity in Philip Roth’s novels was defended at Kazan Federal University, Russia, in 2006. Her post-doc (Habilitation) research was devoted to Jewish identity in the works of contemporary Jewish American authors and was defended at Kazan Federal University as well in 2015. For more than twenty years Olga taught English and World Literature in Russian universities. She is the author of more than forty publications on Philip Roth, John Updike, Jewish American authors, and Holocaust Literature in Russian and English. Olga has been involved with the Philip Roth Society since 2013.

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Philip Roth Studies Executive Editors

Maggie McKinley

Harper College

Chicago, Illinois

 

Matthew Shipe

Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri