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Roni Masel is a 2020-2021 postdoctoral fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Roni is currently working on a book manuscript, Disruptive Pleasure: Violence and the Grotesque in Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures, which considers fictionalized episodes of anti-Jewish violence in Hebrew and Yiddish.

Roni Masel proposes a “failed watching” of Netflix’s new series Unorthodox that sidesteps questions of authenticity in representation and instead “generates what we could call queer pleasure or OTD pleasure.”