Lori Hope Lefkovitz
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Lori Hope Lefkovitz is the Ruderman Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Northeastern University and founding director of Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women and Gender Studies, the first such center at a rabbinical seminary.
A graduate of Brandeis University
, Lefkovitz received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University
and was a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in women's studies, a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at Hebrew University, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, and in 2004, a Fulbright Professorship at Hebrew University. She was previously an Associate Professor at Kenyon College
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Among the courses she teaches or has taught at RRC are: Literary Approaches to Bible; Bible and the Feminist Imagination; Writing for the Rabbinate; Gender and Judaism; Queering Jewish Studies; Jewish Literature.
Since Kolot's founding in 1996, Lefkovitz has convened a landmark conference, together with the Renfrew Center, on Food, Body Image & Judaism, which examined eating disorders; established the Rosh Hodesh: “It’s a girl thing!” program, that has popularly been adopted across the country; and, together with Ma’yan, co-founded Ritualwell.org, a Web site for contemporary Jewish ritual now maintained exclusively by Kolot, with Lefkovitz its Executive Editor. Through a joint initiative, she established a program with Temple University
awarding a certificate in Jewish Women's Studies.
Lefkovitz serves on editorial and professional boards and lectures widely to academic and Jewish audiences. She is married to Rabbi Leonard Gordon, spiritual leader of Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, MA, with whom she has two daughters.
; A Mensch Among Men; Sister to Sister; and Contemporary Critical Theory.
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A graduate of Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
, Lefkovitz received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and was a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in women's studies, a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at Hebrew University, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, and in 2004, a Fulbright Professorship at Hebrew University. She was previously an Associate Professor at Kenyon College
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...
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Among the courses she teaches or has taught at RRC are: Literary Approaches to Bible; Bible and the Feminist Imagination; Writing for the Rabbinate; Gender and Judaism; Queering Jewish Studies; Jewish Literature.
Since Kolot's founding in 1996, Lefkovitz has convened a landmark conference, together with the Renfrew Center, on Food, Body Image & Judaism, which examined eating disorders; established the Rosh Hodesh: “It’s a girl thing!” program, that has popularly been adopted across the country; and, together with Ma’yan, co-founded Ritualwell.org, a Web site for contemporary Jewish ritual now maintained exclusively by Kolot, with Lefkovitz its Executive Editor. Through a joint initiative, she established a program with Temple University
Temple University
Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
awarding a certificate in Jewish Women's Studies.
Lefkovitz serves on editorial and professional boards and lectures widely to academic and Jewish audiences. She is married to Rabbi Leonard Gordon, spiritual leader of Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, MA, with whom she has two daughters.
Publications
Widely published in the fields of literature, critical theory, and Jewish Women's Studies, her articles, book chapters, and reviews have appeared in Nashim; Narrative; The Women's Passover Companion; Lilith; Sh'ma Magazine; The Reconstructionist; Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts; Gender and Judaism; Lifecycles; Kerem; The Kenyon ReviewThe Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
; A Mensch Among Men; Sister to Sister; and Contemporary Critical Theory.
- The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel (UMI Research Press, 1987)
- Editor, Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (SUNY Press, 1997)
- Co-editor with Julia Epstein, Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust (University of Illinois Press, 2001).
- Author: In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010)
External links
Sources
- http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/narrative/v010/10.1lefkovitz.html
- http://jwa.org/feminism/_html/JWA047.htm
- http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/jewish/panel3_03.htm
ategory:1956 births
Category:Living people
Category:American Jews
Category:Brandeis University alumni
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Jewish American writers
Category:Jewish feminists
Category:American feminists
Category:Kenyon College faculty