Gwynn Kessler
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish Studies, Rabbinic Literature, Gender Studies

Office: 123 Anderson Hall
Phone: (352) 392-1625
Email: gkessler@religion.ufl.edu

Gwynn Kessler received her Ph.D. in Rabbinics, with a specialization in Midrash from the Jewish Theological Seminary (May 2001). She is revising her dissertation, The God Of Small Things: The Fetus and Its Development in Palestinian Aggadic Literature, for publication. Her current research uses feminist and queer theories to interpret (and critique) rabbinic constructions of gender and the body. In addition to teaching courses on rabbinic literature, gender and the Hebrew Bible, and Introduction to Judaism, she teaches a course on GLBTQ Jews and Judaism and a course on biblical and rabbinic constructions of God's gender.