Judith Raiskin
Associate Professor
| Office | 321 Hendricks Hall |
| Telephone | (541) 346-2566 |
| raiskin@uoregon.edu |
Interests
- Postcolonial literature
- Lesbian literature and culture
- Travel writing and tourism
- Literature of migration
- Pacific Island cultural studies
Research
Judith Raiskin is currently working on a project on the politics of travel ads that includes a digital database of historic and contemporary ads.
Publications
- Snow on the Cane Fields: Women’s Writing and Creole Subjectivity (University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
- Norton Critical Edition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (New York: WW Norton & Co., 1999)
- Navigating the Narratives of the New Pacific: Gender and Contemporary Pacific Island Literature (In progress)
Selected Articles
- “Telling Tales Out of School: Indigenous Knowledge and Pacific Island Literature,” Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific, Ed. Kathy Ferguson and Monique Mironesa (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008)
- "Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Identities," The Lesbian Postmodern. Ed. Laura Doan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
- "The Art of History: An Interview with Michelle Cliff," The Kenyon Review ns. Vol. XV, no. 1 (Winter 1993), pp. 57-71.
- "Jean Rhys: Creole Writing and Strategies of Reading," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 22:4, October 1991, pp. 51-67.
Biography
Professor Raiskin received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley (1979), her MA from the University of Chicago (1982), and her PhD from Stanford University (1989).