Gloria Orenstein

  • Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
  • USC Dornsife College of Letter, Arts and Sciences
Office: (310) 471-7485

Expertise Summary

An expert on photonics, nanophotonics and photonic crystals

Expertise

  • women in world literature
  • feminist arts and literature
  • ecofeminist art
  • women's movement
  • salon women (women who held salons)
  • ecofeminism and the goddess
  • re-emergence of the goddess inliterature and art
  • shamanism, especially Sami (Lapp)shamanism
  • surrealism/ theater
  • contemporary Jewish women artists

Languages

  • French
  • English

Additional Information

    Author of The Reflowering of the Goddess (1990) and Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (1992)

  • Trained under a Sami shaman