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Lisa Freinkel, Mentor
English

Tove Holmes, McNair Scholar

Lisa Freinkel is an Associate Professor of English who received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993 and joined the UO faculty in 1995. She is a participating faculty member in the Comparative Literature, Judaic Studies, and Women’s Studies Programs, and was a recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching (2001). Recent publications include Reading Shakespeare’s Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets, (Columbia University Press, 2001); “Wittenberg 1522: Martin Luther and the Whole Man,” for The New History of German Literature, David Wellbery, editor (Harvard University Press, forthcoming); and “The Merchant of Venice: ‘Modern’ Anti-Semitism and the Veil of Allegory,” in Modern and Postmodern Shakespeares, Hugh Grady, editor (Routledge, 2000).