• BA in Literature from Swarthmore College
• MA in the Yiddish Studies Program at Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• PhD in the Yiddish Studies Program at Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

• Adventures in Yiddishland:  Postvernacular Language and Culture, University of California Press, 2005 (forthcoming).
• Co-author/co-editor, with J. Hoberman, of Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting, Princeton University Press/The Jewish Museum, New York, 2003.
• Editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust, Yale University Press/YIVO Institute, 2002.
• While America Watches:  Televising the Holocaust, Oxford University Press, 1999.

• “Anthologizing the Vernacular:  Collections of Yiddish Literature in English Translation,” in The Anthology in Jewish Literature, ed. David Stern, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• “Der Zweite Weltkrieg in den amerikanischen Bildwelten” (trans. Bram Opstelten), in Mythen der Nationen:  Arena der Erinnerungen, ed. Monika Flacke, Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin), 2004. 
• “'The Time of Vishniac': Photographs of Prewar East European Jewry in Postwar Contexts,” in Polin:  A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, vol. 16, 2003.
• “Imagining Yiddishland:  Language, Place, and Memory,” in History & Memory, vol. 15, no. 1, 2003.
• “'Die Geschichte kommt nicht so hübsch verpackt daher':  Die Auseinandersetzung um den FilmLiberators” (trans. Irmgard Hölscher), in Jahrbuch zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, Fritz Bauer Institut (Frankfurt a.M.), 2002.
• “The Man in the Glass Box:  Watching the Eichmann Trial on American Television,” in Visual Culture and the Holocaust, ed. Barbie Zelizer, Rutgers University Press, 2001.
• “Beyond the Mother Tongue:  Learning the Meaning of Yiddish in America,” in Jewish Social Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, 2000. 
• “Heritage and Holocaust on Display:  New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust” (review essay), The Public Historian, vol. 22, no. 1, 1999. 
• “Schindler's Discourse:  America Discusses the Holocaust and Its Mediation, from NBC's Miniseries to Spielberg's Film,” in Spielberg's Holocaust:  Critical Perspectives on “Schindler's List,” ed. Yosefa Loshitzky, Indiana University Press, 1997.
• “'This Is Your Life':  Telling a Holocaust Survivor's Life Story on Early American Television,” in Journal of Narrative and Life History, vol. 4, nos. 1 & 2, 1994.  Republished in German translation (by Anna-Luise Knetsch) as “'This is your life, Hanna Bloch Kohner':  Die Geschichte einer Auschwitz-Überlebenden im amerikanischen Fernsehen 1953,” Jahrbuch zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, Fritz Bauer Institut (Frankfurt a.M.), 1996.
• “Meinungsverschiedenheiten:  Kritische Betrachtungen zum US Holocaust Museum” (trans. Cilly Kugelmann), in Babylon:  Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart, vol. 13-14, 1994.
  

• “American Responses to the Holocaust,” conference on 350 Years of American Jewry, Akademie für politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany, May 2005
• “Living Room Witnesses:  American Television and the Holocaust,” Albright College, February 2005.
• “Queer Yiddishkeit:  Practice and Theory,” Conference on the Legacy of Eastern European Jewry Today, Schloss Elmau (Germany), 2004.
• “Mapping Yiddishland:  Speech, Space, and the Imaginary,” Second Annual Yiddish Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

Professor Shandler's teaching interests include Yiddish literature and culture, Jews and the media, Holocaust Representation, East European Jewish folkways, American Jewish literature and culture, and contemporary Jewish vernacular culture.

• Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University, 2005. 
• Finalist, Koret Jewish Book Award, for Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust, 2003.
• Saul Viener Book Prize, for While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust, awarded by the American Jewish Historical Society, 2001.
  

• American Jews and the Media
• Ethnography of Contemporary Jewish Life
• History of Jewish Art
• Holocaust Literature
• Jewish Places, Jewish Spaces (undergraduate seminar)
• Modern Yiddish Literature and Culture
• Remembering the Shtetl
• Yiddish Folklore and Ethnology