Jane Statlander-Slote has a B.A. in English with a minor in Education; an M.A. in English Literature, a PhD in American Literature and Culture; will receive an M.F.A. in Film and a M.S.W in Social Work in 2014 and 2015. She is an internationally published writer of journalism, literary criticism, theater and film criticism, poetry, plays, essayist and prize winning filmmaker and invited to present papers at various international conferences on Psychoanalysis and Literature; Jewish-American Literature and Film. She has won a number of awards for her poetry which has been published in many countries. Her documentary, "Out of Newark: The Life and Work of Philip Roth" will be included in the Library of Congress's Permanent Archival Collection of American Literary and Film Culture; and a short film has been included in the PBS Short Film Festival shown throughout California to more than 18,000 viewers among other distinctions and awards. She is presently working on a documentary, "The Return of the Lost Ones" which is about the descendants of those forced to convert to the Catholic Church who now want to return to their original belief system, Judaism. These descendants are numbered in the many millions and this is a very interesting and pressing phenomenon that will take this film to many locations in Spain, Portugal, Central/South America, the Caribbean, Morocco and Israel. She was a Professor of English at Miami International University of Art & Design and is married to the world-famous ethicist-philosopher, Michael Slote.

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