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Shoshana Olidort
Comparative Literature
Graduation Year
2021
Dissertation Title
"Performing Intersectional Identities: Four Jewish Women Poets in the 20th Century"
Shoshana Olidort is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, specializing in poetry and poetics and Jewish literatures in the 20th and 21st centuries. A 2019-2020 Mellon Fellow, she is completing a dissertation that examines poetry as a mode of performing identity through a consideration of five 20th century Jewish women poets writing in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.