Dr. Karen E. H. Skinazi is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol in the UK. A literary and cultural critic, she specializes in women’s writing. She is the author of Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2018), which was awarded Honorable Mention for the Canadian Association for American Studies’ Robert K. Martin book prize, and she also published a critical edition of Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna’s 1916 novel, Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2012). She is currently working on a project examining the productive interface between Muslim and Jewish women’s lives, literature, and activism. Her essays have appeared in such academic journals as Legacy, Shofar, OLH, and MELUS, as well as such popular venues as The Conversation, The Jewish Daily Forward, and Tablet Magazine.
