The Department of Jewish Studies successfully recruited Sara J. Milstein, an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The New Faculty Fellows program appoints recent Ph.D.s in the humanities to two-year positions at universities and colleges across the United States where their particular research and teaching expertise augment departmental offerings. The fellowship includes teaching three courses and integration and exchange with the scholarly community at Rutgers. Milstein earned her doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic Studies in 2010 from New York University with a dissertation entitled “Reworking Ancient Texts: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature.” Her publications include: The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative (E.J. Brill, Cuneiform Monographs Series, 2010), coauthored with Daniel Fleming, and “From Rambam to Richard Wright: Job, the Delayed Angel, and the Conception of Modern Midrashim” in Why Hidest Thy Face: Job in Traditions and Literature, Mishael Caspi, ed. (D. & F Scott Publishing, Inc., 2002). In the fall, she will teach “Women in the Bible,” and in the spring, “Jewish Society and Culture I,” and “Beginnings: A Literary Reading of Genesis.”