Dr. Joy Ladin is a pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish and holds the David and Ruth Gottes­man Chair in Eng­lish at Stern Col­lege. She received her PhD at Prince­ton, MFA in cre­ative writ­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts at Amherst, and BA from Sarah Lawrence Col­lege. A nation­al­ly rec­og­nized speak­er on gen­der and Jew­ish iden­ti­ty she has spo­ken around the coun­try and has been fea­tured on a num­ber of NPR pro­grams most notably, ​“On Being with Krista Tippett.”