Santa Clara University

Joan Rappaport, Ph.D.

Lecturer (Academic Quarter)

Joan Rappaport has been a lecturer at Santa Clara for over ten years, teaching courses on Jewish and feminist themes in literature and the Bible. Her academic background includes a B.A. in English from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
  

Courses

   Courses taught at Santa Clara University
        RSOC 76   Representing the Holocaust
        RSOC 27   Immigrant Jewish Writers

      

Research

Publications

"Thyra Winslow" and "Elma Levinger" in Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Routledge Press, 1997.

"Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America: A Review Essay." Modern Judaism, May 1994.