PhD (University of Chicago)
Dr. Alexandra Zirkle served as the the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies 2018-2019 Post-Doctoral Associate. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2016, completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz) in 2017, and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Notre Dame in 2018.
Dr. Zirkle has taught courses on subjects including modern Jewish thought, medieval and modern biblical exegesis, and Jewish-Christian relations at the University of Chicago, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, and the University of Notre Dame. Professor Alexandra Zirkle is currently a scholar of modern Jewish thought, biblical hermeneutics, and Jewish-Christian relations at the University of Buffalo. Her research centers biblical interpretation as a mode of critical inquiry, restores nineteenth-century figures to the canon of modern Jewish thought, and explores the ways that the interpretation of scripture is always also a mode of political speech.