
She has lectured in Europe, Japan, and throughout the United States. She edited Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology. She has written on the impact of sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia on identity development.

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.Īs an author, Evi has focused on Franz Kafka and the Yiddish Theater, Frida Kahlo, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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.Įvelyn Torton Beck holds Ph.D.s in both Comparative Literature and Clinical Psychology.
