Responding to Cosmic Catastrophe with Feminist Conviviality: Mrs. Noah as Our Model
January 18, 2026
Mrs. Noah rebukes Noah for favoring elite power-hoarders over fellows facing ecological disaster.
Dr. Susan Nakley is professor of English literature at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she serves as associate chair of the English Department and directs the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. Nakley studies the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval drama and literary approaches to religious and cultural politics more widely. She is the author of Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales (University of Michigan Press, 2017) and has co–edited two collections: a special issue of The Chaucer Review on antisemitism, ethics, the intellectual and Chaucer’s poetry titled “What We Think About When We Think About the Prioress’s Tale” (Vol. 59, No. 3, July 2024) with Karla Taylor, and The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer (Routledge, 2024) with Craig E. Bertolet.
Mrs. Noah rebukes Noah for favoring elite power-hoarders over fellows facing ecological disaster.
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
