Jyl Lynn Felman is an author, performance artist, and lawyer who taught Women's Studies at Brandeis University for eight years. Currently she teaches in the Judaic Studies Program and the Commonwealth College of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire, a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law, and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts. She is the recipient of several writing fellowships and performance grants from the University of Massachusetts, the Berkshire Forum, and the Flower Foundation. Ms. Felman is a popular professor on the UMass campus, where her work focuses on feminist theory, performance and pedagogy; contemporary autobiography, race, gender, and sexuality.

Ms. Felman's memoir Cravings, was published in 1997 and Hot Chicken Wings, a collection of short stories was a 1993 Lambda Literary Finalist. If Only I'd Been Born A Kosher Chicken, her autobiographical, one woman show aired nationally in 1997 on C-SPAN'S Performance Series. Ms. Felman has appeared at over twenty-five universities in England, Canada, the United States, Australia, and the Czech Republic. She has been featured on radio and TV, including the BBC and NPR. Never A Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance was recently published to wide acclaim. Performing Cultural Rituals, a dynamic collection of autobiographical monologues, rants and outrageous acts will be published in 2007.