Karen E.H. Skinazi, Ph.D

Karen E. H. Skinazi is Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Culture and Director of the Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at Hebrew Union College. Her teaching includes the courses “Jews in American Popular Culture,” “Literature of Resistance,” “Representing: Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews,” and “Rabbis in the Cultural Imagination.” Previously, Dr. Skinazi taught at universities in Canada, the US, and the UK and has held fellowships at Oxford University and with the Posen Library of Culture and Civilization. She did her Ph.D. at New York University. Dr. Skinazi is the author of Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2018) and writes widely on Jewish culture and Jewish gender studies. She is currently working on two research projects: a monograph on British Muslim and Jewish women’s writing, entitled Chani and Fatima Join a Book Club: Reading for Peace and a study of English-language literature by Sephardic and Mizrahi writers in the UK and USA.

Academic Credentials

New York University, Ph.D.
New York University, M.A.
York University, BA (Honours)