Daphne Patai
Daphne Patai | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) in Jerusalem |
| Awards | Guggenheim Foundation fellowship; NEH fellowship; National Humanities Center fellowship; Samuel Conti faculty fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
| Thesis | Forms of myth in contemporary Brazilian fiction: technique and ideology (1977) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Main interests | Utopian 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.