Lori Lefkovitz holds the Ruderman Chair in Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, where she directs the Jewish Studies Program and is a professor of English. From 2013-2022, she served Director of the Northeastern University Humanities Center. Her book, In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Women’s Studies category. She is the founding executive editor of the website ritualwell.org