Judith Raiskin

Judith Raiskin is a Professor at the University of Oregon, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences, where she contributes to Disability Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She earned her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (1979), M.A. from the University of Chicago (1982), and Ph.D. from Stanford University (1989).

Her research focuses on

• Post-colonial literature and cultural studies
• Gender and comparative feminist theory
• Caribbean studies
• Disability Studies and LGBTQ studies
• Sexuality and legal rights in same-sex parenting

She co-created The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, which archives interviews and cultural artifacts of lesbian women in Eugene, Oregon, and is developing a documentary titled Outliers and Outlaws based on this work.

Her notable publications include the book Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and the Norton Critical Edition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (WW Norton & Co., 1999). Her work spans postcolonial critique, feminist theory, and intersectional analyses of identity and culture.