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Daphne Patai | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 80–81) in Jerusalem |
| Awards | Guggenheim Foundation fellowship; NEH fellowship; National Humanities Center fellowship; Samuel Conti faculty fellowship |
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| 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.[1] Her PhD is in Brazilian literature, but her early work also focused on utopian and dystopian fiction.[citation needed] She is the daughter of the anthropologist Raphael Patai.