Ameliah earned her B.A. in English for Secondary Teachers at Western Kentucky University in 2013. For her honors undergraduate thesis, she explored images of Jewish identity in literature from the Second Temple period. After teaching English abroad and at American secondary schools, her interest in Jewish Studies led her to Duke University, where she earned her M.A. in Religious Studies in 2019. She joined the Carolina-Duke program in 2020. Her research focuses upon issues of Jewish identity in early twentieth-century German-Jewish and Yiddish literature, with a focus on women writers and their significant contributions to Jewish literary modernism. She is particularly interested in how these authors draw upon biblical motifs for modernist aims.
Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies