Brenner published seven books, and more than 80 articles in academic journals
Comparative Literature Studies,
Studies in American Jewish Literature,
Israel Studies,
Slavic Review,
AJS Review, Jewish Studies Quarterly,
Discourse,
Studies in Religion,
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and
Critical Inquiry. In 1992 she won the
Canadian Jewish Book Award for literary criticism. •
A.M. Klein, The Father of Canadian Jewish Literature: Essays in the Poetics of Humanistic Passion (1990) •
Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum (1997) •
Inextricably Bonded—Israel Jewish and Arab Writers Re-Visioning Culture (2003) •
The Freedom to Write: The Woman-Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction (2008, in Hebrew) •
The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (2014) •
Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942–1947 (2019)
Selected articles • "A. M. Klein's 'The Hitleriad': Against the Silence of the Apocalypse" (1990) • "Edith Stein: A reading of her feminist thought" (1994) • "Between Identity and Anonymity: Art and History in
Aharon Megged's
Foiglman" (1995) • "Back to the Future: Evolution of the A/Teleological in Recent Israeli Fiction" (1996) • "Writing Herself against History: Anne Frank's Self-Portrait as a Young Artist" (1996) • "Mother's Curse or Cursed Mother: Forgotten Stories in Forbidden Languages in
Meir Shalev's
Esau" (1997) • "'Hidden Transcripts' Made Public: Israeli Arab Fiction and Its Reception" (1999) • "The Search for Identity in Israeli Arab Fiction: Atallah Mansour,
Emile Habiby, and
Anton Shammas" (2001) • "Voices from Destruction: Two Eyewitness Testimonies from the
Stanisławów Ghetto" (2008) • "Ideology and Its Ethics:
Maria Dąbrowska’s Jewish (and Polish) Problem" (2011) == Personal life and legacy ==