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Lori Harrison-Kahan is a Professor of the Practice in the English Department at Boston College. She specializes in American literature and culture, women’s writing, and comparative race and ethnic studies. Her research focuses on recovering overlooked Jewish American women writers and their contributions to literary and social movements.
Education:
- A.B., Princeton University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Interests: Lori’s work bridges literary recovery and feminist historiography, particularly examining the intersections of gender, race, and Jewish identity in American literature. She co-edited The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (2019), which won the SSAWW Best Book Edition Award, and Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (2020). Her current book project, West of the Ghetto: Pioneering Women Writers and Jewish American Literary Culture, explores late 19th- and early 20th-century Jewish women writers in the Western U.S.
Awards:
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award (2016)
- SSAWW Best Book Edition Award (2021)
Grants and Fellowships: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and Modernist Studies Association. Recent fellowships include the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Scholar-in-Residence (2016) and Robert E. Levinson Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library.
Teaching and Leadership: Teaches courses like American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice and Hamilton and American Culture. Served as book review editor for MELUS and currently edits a volume on Jewish women’s writing with Annie Atura Bushnell and Ashley Walters.
Public Engagement: Active in public humanities, including author talks on her edited works and contributions to The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism. Her CNN op-ed on #MeToo’s historical roots highlights connections between 19th-century feminist journalism and modern activism.
