Professor, Humanities
Professor, Humanities Department
Coordinator, Comparative Religious Studies Program
E-mail
jrycenga@earthlink.net
jennifer.rycenga@sjsu.edu
Additional Contact Information
Phone Number(s)
(650) 440-0063 (cell)
(408) 924-1367
Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday 7:30-8:15 am, 10:30-11:45 am
Jennifer Rycenga is Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at San José State University. Her areas of interest include American religious history, religion and music, feminist analyses of religion, lesbian history, religion and politics, and feminist analyses of music.
She has published numerous articles, and co-edited the volumes Frontline Feminisms with Marguerite Waller (Routledge, 2000), and Queering the Popular Pitch with Sheila Whiteley (Routledge, 2006). She is currently working on a cultural biography of white Abolitionist educator Prudence Crandall (1803-1890), and two edited volumes: one on Sexualities and Knowledges with Margie Waller, and That Word is Liberty: Essays on Matilda Joslyn Gage. She is also co-editing a reader of the works of Mary Daly, with Linda Barufaldi.
She received the Ph.D. in the area of Religion and Music from the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. She has been teaching at SJSU since 1995.
Prof. Rycenga is an avid birder, with a North American Life List of over 675 species, and 1300 species worldwide. Ask her about your backyard visitors and encounters with birds that go bump in the night! She serves as president of the Sequoia Audubon Society in San Mateo county.
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