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Tahneer Oksman Tahneer Oksman is a writer, teacher, and scholar. She is the author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Columbia University Press, 2016), and the co-editor of The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself (University Press of Mississippi, 2019), which won the 2020 Comics Studies Society (CSS) Prize for Best Edited Collection. She is also co-editor of a multi-disciplinary Special Issue of Shofar: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, titled “What’s Jewish About Death?” (March 2021). For more of her writing, you can visit tahneeroksman.com. Website X Articles Reviews Books Interview Digging through the Past: A Conversation with Rutu Modan Tahneer Oksman December 6, 2021 Essay “Where Should the Story Begin?” The Worlds of Holocaust Graphic Memoirs Earlier this week, Tahneer Oksman traversed the depictions of space in women’s graphic memoirs included in her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and… Tahneer Oksman April 7, 2016 Essay Drawing a Room of Her Own With the recent release of her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, author (and frequent… Tahneer Oksman April 4, 2016 Interview Interview: Roz Chast by Tahneer OksmanTahneer Oksman spoke to Roz Chast about her recently published book Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant.Tahneer Oksman: What compelled you… Tahneer Oksman August 13, 2014 Interview Interview: Anya Ulinich by Tahneer OksmanTahneer Oksman sat down recently with Anya Ulinich to discuss her first graphic novel, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel, published today by Penguin Books.… Tahneer Oksman July 29, 2014 Essay Beyond the Book: Vanessa Davis Responds to Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix by Tahneer OksmanIt can be disorienting to imagine your favorite cartoonist’s works hanging in a museum. How do you preserve the intensely private and intimate… Tahneer Oksman February 12, 2014 Interview Interview: Nancy K. Miller by Tahneer OksmanNancy K. Miller’s new memoir, Breathless: An American Girl in Paris, recounts the years that the author spent abroad after graduating from Barnard… Tahneer Oksman December 9, 2013 Interview Interview: Howard Jacobson on “The Swag Man” by Tahneer OksmanHoward Jacobson is a Manchester-born author and the recent recipient of the Man Booker Prize, as well as two Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizes… Tahneer Oksman July 19, 2013 Nonfiction Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman Nonfiction A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York Liana Finck Fiction The UnAmericans: Stories Molly Antopol Visual Arts Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps Art Spiegelman Nonfiction A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch Ilana Szobel Nonfiction Dynamic Belonging: Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities Harvey E. Goldberg, Steven M. Cohen, and Ezra Kopelowitz, eds. Nonfiction “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs Tahneer Oksman
Interview Digging through the Past: A Conversation with Rutu Modan Tahneer Oksman December 6, 2021
Essay “Where Should the Story Begin?” The Worlds of Holocaust Graphic Memoirs Earlier this week, Tahneer Oksman traversed the depictions of space in women’s graphic memoirs included in her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and… Tahneer Oksman April 7, 2016
Essay Drawing a Room of Her Own With the recent release of her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, author (and frequent… Tahneer Oksman April 4, 2016
Interview Interview: Roz Chast by Tahneer OksmanTahneer Oksman spoke to Roz Chast about her recently published book Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant.Tahneer Oksman: What compelled you… Tahneer Oksman August 13, 2014
Interview Interview: Anya Ulinich by Tahneer OksmanTahneer Oksman sat down recently with Anya Ulinich to discuss her first graphic novel, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel, published today by Penguin Books.… Tahneer Oksman July 29, 2014
Essay Beyond the Book: Vanessa Davis Responds to Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix by Tahneer OksmanIt can be disorienting to imagine your favorite cartoonist’s works hanging in a museum. How do you preserve the intensely private and intimate… Tahneer Oksman February 12, 2014
Interview Interview: Nancy K. Miller by Tahneer OksmanNancy K. Miller’s new memoir, Breathless: An American Girl in Paris, recounts the years that the author spent abroad after graduating from Barnard… Tahneer Oksman December 9, 2013
Interview Interview: Howard Jacobson on “The Swag Man” by Tahneer OksmanHoward Jacobson is a Manchester-born author and the recent recipient of the Man Booker Prize, as well as two Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizes… Tahneer Oksman July 19, 2013
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Nonfiction Dynamic Belonging: Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities Harvey E. Goldberg, Steven M. Cohen, and Ezra Kopelowitz, eds.
Nonfiction “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs Tahneer Oksman
