Courses Taught

Reading and Writing Autobiography, Creative Writing Fiction, Ghosts That Haunt Us: Writing Memories, Independent Study: Playwriting, Advanced Prose Writing and The Narrative Essay, Art, Activism, and Academics: The Work of Black, Feminist Poet and Writer Audre Lorde, Rhetoric and Composition, Freshman Composition, Writing For Social Thought and Political Economy, Jewish Women Writers, Contemporary Jewish American Literature, Film, and Culture, The Holocaust and Jewish Identity, Women in Culture and Society, Advanced Feminist Theory, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Feminist Pedagogy, Harmonies and Tensions: US Blacks and Jews, Blacks, Jews, and Roma.

Teaching Experience

--------------- Select Publications ---------------

• Performing Cultural Rituals (forthcoming) Routledge, 2007.
• Never A Dull Moment: Teaching, and the Art of Performance, Routledge, 2001.
• Cravings: A Sensual Memoir, Beacon Press, Sept., 1997. Pbk., Nov., 1998.
• Hot Chicken Wings, Aunt Lute Books, October, 1992; Virago, July, 1996.

• "Public Exposure," Tikkun, 12:5 (Sept./Oct., 1997) 63-64.
• "Nurturing The Soul," Tikkun, 10:10 (July/August, 1996) 78-82.
• "The Meaning Of Blood," Jewish Currents, (May, 1996) 34, 48.
• "Border Crossings," Tikkun, 10:7 (Jan/Feb, 1996) 66-67.
• "If Only I'd Been Born A Kosher Chicken," Tikkun, 9:4 (August, 1994) 47-50, 78-79; excerpted in Nice Jewish Girls, Plume/Penguin, (1996) 83 -87; and Through The Kitchen Window, Beacon, (1997) 360-362; reprinted and anthologized in Surface Tension, Simon & Schuster, (1996) 218-230; and Searching for Your Soul, Schocken, (1999) 226-236.
• "Lost Jewish (Male) Souls," Tikkun, 10:3 (May/June, 1995) 27-30.
• "Transgression In Jewish Literature," Judaica Librarianship, 8:1-2, (1993-94) 119-120.
• "Hairdos and Don'ts,"Forward,(July 30, 1993) 12; expanded and anthologized as "L'Dor V Dor,"Her Face In The Mirror, Beacon, (October, 1994) 216-220.
• "Gay, Jewish and Whole," Jewish Currents, (January, 1993) 5-7.
• "Meditation For My Sisters," Childless By Choice, Her Books, (1992) 76-82.
• "Stranger In A Strange Land," Inside Magazine, (September, 1992) 45-46, 48; expanded and reprinted as "Beyond Ketah Aleph,"Sojourner,17:11( 1992) 5-6.
• "The Forbidden," Women's Studies Journal at MSU, 6:1 (Fall, 1992) 20-21.
• "For Love And For Life," Tikkun, 3:1 (January/February, 1988) 64-65.
• "Why I Want To Be A Rabbi," The Tribe Of Dina, Beacon, (1989) 189-196.

• "Her Job," Korone, Womanspace Inc., 7 (1992) 20-22.
• "Jelly Rolls," A Loving Voice, The Charles Press, (1991) 258-267.
• "Voices," Bridges, 1:4 (Spring, 1991) 35-41.
• "Miss Ohio," Korone, Womanspace, Inc., 6 (1990) 32-36.
• "Absence," Bridges, 1:3 (Fall, 1990) 63-68.
• "Hot Chicken Wings," Speaking For Myself, Crossing, (1990) 140-154; reprinted and anthologized in Tide Lines, Gynergy Books, (1991) 12-21.
• "Crisis," Sinister Wisdom, 27 (Fall, 1984) 66-74, reprinted and anthologized in Speaking For Myself, Crossing, (1990) 57-70;
• "Zmira," Syracuse Review, 1:1 (1975) 4-7.

• "Reclaiming Tradition," Lambda Book Report, 6:02, (Sept., 1997) 18-19.
• "Aimee & Jaguar," Sojourner, 21:11 (July, 1996) 31.
• "Overcoming Foreskin Envy," Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, 2:4 (Fall, 1995) 39.
• "Fly Girl," Lambda Book Report, 4:12 (September/October, 1995) 31.
• "What Possesses Rainbow Rosenbloom?" Forward, (February 3, 1995) 10.
• "The Representation Of Evil," Sojourner, 19:6 (February, 1994) 38-39; edited version reprinted as "Judy Chicago," Lilith, 19:2 (Summer, 1994) 15-16.
• "Voices That Remember," Lambda Book Report, 3:4 (May/June, 1992) 26-27.
• "There's Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You," National Women's Studies Association Journal, 3:1 (Winter, 1991) 138-142.
  

Plays Produced As Adaptations From Hot Chicken Wings

• “Power, Politics, and Potboilers: Feminist Pedagogy and the (de)Gendered Professor.” Curriculum Development and Women and Gender Studies for the 21st Century, Conference and Colloquium between the University of Havana Women’s Studies Department and The Massachusetts Five College Women’s Studies Consortium, University of Havana, Cuba, January 2004.
• “Art, Activism, and Academics: The Work of Audre Lorde.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, New York, December 2002.
• “Performance as Pedagogy,” Quinsigamond Community College, May 2002.
• “Performance as Pedagogy,” IDEAS Fellows Summer Institute, July 2002.
• “Performance as Pedagogy,” Minneapolis Public School System, Faculty Development Conference, July 2002.
• “Performance as Pedagogy,” University of Texas, El Paso, April 2002.
• “Performance as Pedagogy,” Yale University, Queer Teas at Yale, Faculty and Graduate Forum, November 2001.
• “Performance as Pedagogy/Pedagogy as Performance, Faculty Lectures, Lesley College, November 2001.
• “Academic Bodies In Motion,” London School of Economics, Gender Studies, October 2001.
• "Masculinities and Feminities in Performance," Charles University, Center for Gender Studies, Lecture Series, "Feminism and Ethnography," Prague, Czech Republic, May 2001.
• "From Damsels in Distress to GI Joe in the Last Row," Harvard University, School of Education, Gender Studies Brownbag Series, April 2001.
• "Metaphor in Contemporary Jewish Women's Memoir;" and "Mothers or Madwomen: Mentoring in Feminist Pedagogy," National Women's Studies Conference, Boston, 2000.
• Keynote Speaker/performer, National Conference on Women in Medicine, Northampton, 1998.
• "The Art of Memoir," Miami International Book Fair, Miami, 1997.
• "Jewish Identity in the Arts," University of Massachusetts Jewish Faculty Conference, Amherst, 1997.
• "Musings on Memoirs," Mid-Atlantic Gay Writers' Conference, Washington, D.C., 1997.
• "Nurturing the Soul," Tikkun Summit On Ethics & Meaning, Washington, DC, 1996.
• "Eye to Eye," African and Jewish American performance with Shirley Hayden-Whitely, University Women and Theatre Conference, Emory University, 1995.
• "Jewish and Female," Keynote Address, American Jewish Congress Feminist Symposium, Chicago, 1994.
• "Jewish Lesbian Literature," Jewish Women's Resource Center, New York, 1994.
• "Library Collection Policies," Association of Jewish Libraries Conference, New York, 1993.
• "L'Dor V Dor: Generation to Generation," American Jewish Congress Symposium, Chicago, 1993.
• "Cross Cultural Connections," International Women, Judaism and Psychology Conference, Seattle, 1992.
• "African and Jewish American Identity" with Shirley Hayden-Whitley, Women's Studies Conference, Bowling Green State University, 1992.

• Castle Hill Arts Center, Writing Intensive, 2005.
• Wellfleet Public Library, Weekend Writing Retreat, 2004, February 2005.
• Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, 2004.
• California State College, Northridge, 2004.
• Duke University, Graduate School, 2003.
• University of New Orleans, 2003.
• Wooster College, 2003.
• Trinity College, Women's Studies Program, 1998.
• Lesley College, Sociology Department, 1998.
• University of Rhode Island, English Department, 1998 .
• Simmons College, English Department, 1997.
• Emory University, Creative Writing, English, Women's Studies Program, 1997.
• Western Michigan University, Visiting Scholar Program, 1996.
• Northwestern University, Norris Center Programs Board, English, Creative Writing Program, and Judaic Studies, 1996.
• University of Chicago, Champaigne, Hillel Lecture Series, 1996.
• Mt. Holyoke College, Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 1995.
• Brown University, International Women's Week, 1994.
• University of Kansas, Keynote Address, Gayla Week, 1993.
• Bowling Green State University, International Women's Week, 1993.
• Iowa State University, Center for Campus Life, 1993.
• Temple University, International Women's Week, 1993.
• Grinnell College, Noun Program in Women's Studies, 1993.
• University of California, Jewish Women's Resource Center, San Diego, 1993.
• State University of New York, Binghamton, Creative Writing, Women's Studies, 1992.
• Michigan State University, Women's Studies Series, 1992.
• Oberlin College, English Department and Creative Writing, 1992.
• Smith College, Keynote Women's Week, with Sabrina Sojourner, "Blacks & Jews," 1992.

• Southern Pacific Radio, California, Interview for Cravings, 1998.
• "If Only I'd Been Born A Kosher Chicken," one woman autobiographical show, aired nationally on C-SPAN's performance series, 1997.
• National Public Radio, "Book News," Interview for Cravings, 1997.
• Wisconsin National Public Radio, Interview for Cravings, 1997.
• "Inner Views," Florida's Premier On Air Magazine, 1997.
• "The Late Show," BBC, Southern Counties, England, 1996.
• "Woman Talk," BBC, London, England, 1996.
• "Jewish London," BBC, London, England, 1996.
• "Chris Mills Show," BBC, Radio Bristol, England, 1996.

• Judge, 12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, Biography/Autobiography Category, 2000.
• Brandeis University, selected as Professor of the "Best Course Survey," for Introduction to Women's Studies; Feminism 2000 and Beyond; and Black Jewish Relations in the U.S., 2000.
• Brandeis University, Senior Survey, Ranked 2nd out of over 350 faculty, 1999.
• Finalist, Writing Fellowship, Toni Morrison Judge, State Univ. of New York, Albany, 1983.
• Five College Women's Studies Research Associate, Mount Holyoke College, 1995.
• Cravings, #1 Best Seller List, Nonfiction, "Gazette," July 1, 1998.
• Hot Chicken Wings, #6 Best Seller List, Fiction, "Valley Advocate," November 12, 1992;
  #6 Best Seller List," Red and Black Books," Seattle, Washington, Winter 1992.
• Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, Hot Chicken Wings, 1993.
• Performance Grant, Flower Foundation, 1991.
• Writer In Residence, Berkshire Forum, 1991.
• Graduate Writing Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978