Ellen G. Friedman is an American author, editor, and Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies at The College of New Jersey where she serves as Coordinator of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program.

Her current research is in cultural and gender studies.

from Queens College and earned her Ph.D. in English with Distinction from New York University.

Friedman teaches undergraduate English courses on topics such as Modern American Literature; Contemporary American Fiction; Postmodern Fiction; Morality in Contemporary American Literature and Film; American Literature: 1860–1920; Women Writers; Representations of the Holocaust; and Literary Theory.

Friedman also teaches undergraduate Women's & Gender Studies courses on topics such as Feminist Theories; Gender and Democracy; and a Senior Seminar: Postmemory & the Holocaust [3] Friedman also teaches select graduate courses & tutorials on topics such as Contemporary American Fiction Modern American Literature; Postmodern Fiction; Virginia Woolf; William Faulkner; Women Writers; Gender Trouble: Theory and Literature; Representations of the Holocaust; Feminist Literary Theory & 20th-century Women Writers; and Joyce Carol Oates [4] Books: Articles: