Sadie Gottesman and Arlene Gottesman Reff Professor of Gender and Judaism and Director, Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women's and Gender Studies
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llefkovitz@rrc.edu

A graduate of Brandeis University, Lori Lefkovitz, PhD., received her master of arts and doctorate in English from Brown University. She received a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in women's studies, a Golda Meir postdoctoral fellowship at Hebrew University, a Fulbright Professorship at Hebrew University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. Previously associate professor of English literature at Kenyon College, Lefkovitz is the author of The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel (UMI Research Press, 1987) and editor of Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (SUNY Press, 1997) and Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust (with Julia Epstein, University of Illinois Press, 2001). She is widely published in the fields of literature, critical theory and Jewish women's studies; her work includes articles, book chapters and reviews. Lefkovitz is executive editor of Ritualwell.org and co-directs the Certificate Program in Jewish Women's Studies jointly sponsored by Kolot and the Women's Studies Program of Temple University.