Chair of English

Professional Biography

Rishona Zimring grew up in Chicago, and went on to attend college and graduate school at Yale University, where she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1993. Her dissertation, “Genealogies of the Modern Metropolis: Gender and Urban Space in Zola, Gissing, James, and Conrad,” was awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities. She has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Woolf Studies Annual, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Modernism/Modernity. In 2005, she organized the annual conference on Virginia Woolf: The Art of Exploration. At Lewis & Clark, she teaches courses on modernist British fiction, Joyce and Woolf, postcolonial literature, gender and aesthetic expression, and the history of love in the novel. Her current projects are a study of social dance and the literary imagination in interwar Britain and an essay on the conflict between science and piety in novels by John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, and Ian McEwan.