Charlotte Fonrobert
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, of Classics and of German Studies
Department:
Religious Studies
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union (1995)
M.A., Graduate Theological Union/Center for Jewish Studies (1989)
B.A., Kirchliche Hochschule (Protestant Seminary Berlin) and Free University of Berlin (1986)
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert specializes in Judaism: talmudic literature and culture. Her interests include gender in Jewish culture; the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity; the discourses of orthodoxy versus heresy; the connection between religion and space; and rabbinic conceptions of Judaism with respect to GrecoRoman culture. She is the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender(2000), which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of that year and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (2007), together with Martin Jaffee (University of Washington). Currently, she is working on a manuscript entitled Replacing the Nation: Judaism, Diaspora and the Neighborhood.