Rishona Zimring
Professor of English
Spring 2026: Wednesdays 12-2PM & by appointment
Rishona Zimring joined Lewis & Clark’s English Department in 1995. She is the author of Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain (Ashgate Press, 2013), as well as wide-ranging essays about modern literature, dance, visual culture, and cultural history. The recipient of a 2015 Lorry Lokey Faculty Excellence Award for distinguished teaching, scholarship, and leadership, Professor Zimring has also received fellowships and awards from the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Newberry Library. Recent publications include “Dance” in Vaughan Williams in Context, “Katherine Mansfield and Reading,” and “Katherine Dunham’s Chicago Stage: Crossing to Caribbean Négritude.” She is currently researching a book-length project titled Olive and Al: A Story of Partnership in Life, Law and Letters, with fellowship support from the American Philosophical Society, the New York Public Library, and the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her interest in creative partnerships has led to the recent publication of “Found in Translation: The Epistolary Friendship of Rosika Schwimmer and Ignazio Silone,” conference presentations on ekphrasis in the writing of Ezra Pound, Erich Auerbach, and Rachel Cusk, and a paper on the Alpine expedition and friendship of Leslie Stephen and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.