Daphne Patai

Daphne Patai
Born1943 (age 8182)
in Jerusalem
AwardsGuggenheim Foundation fellowship; NEH fellowship; National Humanities Center fellowship; Samuel Conti faculty fellowship
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin
ThesisForms of myth in contemporary Brazilian fiction: technique and ideology (1977)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Main interestsUtopian Studies; higher education; feminism; Brazilian literature and culture

Daphne Patai (born 1943) is an American scholar and author. She is professor emeritus of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her PhD is in Brazilian literature, but her early work also focused on utopian and dystopian fiction. She is the daughter of the anthropologist Raphael Patai.