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Dr. Nora Nachumi is an Associate Professor of English at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, and serves as Director of the Minor in Women's Studies and Co-Chair of the Academic Integrity Committee. She holds a BA in English (SUNY Purchase) and a PhD in English with a Women's Studies certificate (CUNY Graduate Center). Her research focuses on celebrity studies, 18th- and 19th-century British literature, theater, and women writers like Jane Austen, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald. She teaches courses on literary genres (comedy, satire, detective fiction), women's studies, and film.
Education:
- BA, English (with honors), State University of New York at Purchase
- PhD, English, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (with Women's Studies certificate)
Research Interests: Dr. Nachumi explores intersections of gender, theater, and celebrity in historical and contemporary contexts. Her work analyzes how women writers engaged with theatrical and public spheres, while also examining adaptations of classic literature (e.g., Jane Austen) in film and digital media. Recent courses include Composition and Rhetoric, Women's Studies Theory, and topics in British literature.
Awards:
- Senior Class Professor of the Year
- Dean Bacon Award
- Yeshiva University Research Grant
- Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber, and Fred Zwas Book Grant
Grants and Advising: She has secured grants supporting feminist scholarship and pedagogical innovation. Her advising focuses on mentoring students in interdisciplinary humanities projects, particularly those combining literary analysis with gender studies or media studies.
Publications: Dr. Nachumi authored Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage (2008) and co-edited Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance (2022) and Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2022). Her work appears in journals and anthologies on theater, adaptation, and women's literary history.
