Lori Hope Lefkovitz

Lori Hope Lefkovitz (born May 6, 1956) is an American Jewish studies academic. She works at Northeastern University, where she serves as the Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies and directs the Jewish Studies Program. She is the founding director of Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women and Gender Studies, the first such center at a rabbinical seminary.

Biography

Teaching and academia

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.

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.

Lefkovitz serves on editorial and professional boards and lectures widely to academic and Jewish audiences.

Feminism Lefkovitz has expressed interest in reviving or reclaiming Jewish women's folk practices and holidays. Sh'ma Magazine; The Reconstructionist; Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts; Gender and Judaism; Lifecycles; Kerem; A Mensch Among Men; Sister to Sister; and Contemporary Critical Theory.

Books The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel (UMI Research Press, 1987)

As editor

Chapters

Articles