Jennifer Ruth Keller is a writer and educator living in eastern Washington state. With degrees from Stanford (BA, PhD) and The University of Chicago Divinity School (MA) she has taught at research universities, liberal arts colleges, and state land-grant schools. She was the Robert Aird Chair in Humanities at Deep Springs College for five years, as well as the inaugural professor of The Arete Project, an all-women's educational program built on the Deep Springs model.
Her book on forgetting and the written word, Ordinary Oblivion and The Self Unmoored was published in 2014.
Ordinary Oblivion and The Self Unmoored
“This is an extraordinarily creative, and lyrically written, meditation on the philosophical meaning and experiential richness of what is, by any measure, one of Plato’s most creative and lyrical dialogues. Countering the all too common belief that Plato was strictly hostile to poetry and poets, an idea the Phaedrus belies, Rapp weaves contemporary poetic voices into her meditation on this preeminently Greek philosophical vision. The result is a tapestry of exceptional beauty and insight.” (―Louis Ruprecht Georgia State University)
“Rapp’s ambitious and exciting work plumbs the depths of Plato’s text with verve and sings with a voice as poetic as Plato’s own.” –Highly Recommended (―Choice Magazine)
Featured Writing
Two Thumbs in the Dark
When I opened my Instagram account I named it to go with a book of essays I was starting to write. Several years later, as I’m finishing that collection, the name has come to mean...
The Great Unknowing
Published in The Threepenny Review, September 2020 “…woman is her body as man is his, but her body is something other than her.”Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex That spring I walked into the hospital...
