Creativists in Dialogue talks with Evelyn “Evi” Torton Beck Ph.D.: scholar, teacher, healer, feminist, Sacred Circle Dance leader, and lifelong advocate against antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia, racism, and other oppressions.
Evelyn Torton Beck holds Ph.D.s in both Comparative Literature and Clinical Psychology. She has pioneered numerous interdisciplinary courses on topics as diverse as Women in the Arts, Mothers and Daughters, Jewish Women in International Perspective, Women and the Holocaust, Death and Dying in Modern Literature, Lesbian Studies, Gender, Power and the Spectrum of Difference, and Feminist Perspectives on Psychology, among others.
As an author, Evi has focused on Franz Kafka and the Yiddish Theater, Frida Kahlo, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. She has written on the impact of sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia on identity development. She edited Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology. She has lectured in Europe, Japan, and throughout the United States.
She has presented language-focused workshops at the National Association of Poetry Therapy and at The Power of Words Conference as well as workshops in Meditative Dance, Enhancing Joy in Your Life, Health and Healing, Stages of Women’s Lives from Child to Crone, and Creative Aging.
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A Conversation with Evelyn "Evi" Torton Beck