Faculty biography - Diane Lichtenstein
Diane Lichtenstein has taught in English and Women’s Studies at Beloit College for more than twenty years. She teaches literature courses such as “U.S. Personal Narratives,” “Bad Girls and Boundary Crossers: Twentieth-Century Novels by American Women,” “African-American Women’s Fiction,” and “Jewish American Fiction.” She has also taught Post-Colonial Literature and Theory as well as a senior capstone course titled “Pursuing Happiness,” and she has team taught a course with Professor Sturtz titled “The Education of American Girls, Pre-1880.” Professor Lichtenstein has been honored with Beloit’s Teacher of the Year Award.
Professor Lichtenstein earned her B.A. at Brown and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers as well as articles on specific authors including Emma Lazarus and Fannie Hurst, on the importance of the specific locations of Women’s Studies programs, and on collaborative leadership. She is also very interested in the theories and practices of interdisciplinarity.
At Beloit Professor Lichtenstein has served as Chair of Women’s Studies, Chair of English, Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, Chair of the Arts and Humanities Division, and as Associate Dean.
Professor Lichtenstein loves cities and good food, and looks forward to exploring Chicago and its restaurants with participants in the Newberry Seminar. Her older daughter will graduate from Macalester College in 2011, and her younger daughter attends Earlham College.