Rowena Kennedy-Epstein

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing at the University of Bristol (UK). She is the author of Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century (Cornell UP, 2022) and she recovered and edited Muriel Rukeyser’s lost Spanish Civil War writings: “Barcelona, 1936: Selections from the Spanish Civil War Archives” (CUNY Lost and Found, 2011) and Savage Coast (Feminist Press, 2013). She is co-editing the volume The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose (Cornell UP, 2023) and writing the first biography of Rukeyser for Bloomsbury. She is a 2022-23 NEH Public Scholars Fellow.