Karen Skinazi

Karen Skinazi 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). She writes widely on Jewish culture and Jewish gender studies and is currently working on a book about 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 United Kingdom and the United States. Her teaching includes courses on Jews in popular culture, contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, and rabbis in the cultural imagination.