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My research addresses how minorities find a literature in a majority culture. In its first phase, I specialized in Anglo-Jewish women’s writing. In my monograph,  (Bloomsbury, 2015; paperback 2017) and several articles on the subject, I brought together religion, gender, and affect studies to recover women’s theological writing in literary texts during the nineteenth century. More recently, I have broadened my scope by editing an anthology on religious feeling in the nineteenth century (, Routledge 2020). The anthology decenters dominant religious groups by juxtaposing sources from a wide array of established, dissenting, and minority religions and also by prioritizing writing by women and non-white writers from across the English-speaking world. This global outlook carries through into my current project on Jewish travel writing, begun while I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. This project advances the established conversation between diaspora and migration studies and Jewish studies by examining real and fictionalized narratives of cross-cultural journeys.