Julia Epstein, PhD

Leadership Team Member

Julia Epstein is a fundraising and media relations consultant for social justice nonprofit organizations. She was a Senior Associate with Susan Kleinman Wallis Consulting LLP and served as Director of Development & Communications at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, CA, and at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in Berkeley, CA.

Prior to her development career, Julia taught at the College of William & Mary, Drexel University, and Haverford College, where she was Barbara Riley Levin Professor of Comparative Literature. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Women’s Leadership Institute and Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Mills College, Oakland, CA, a member of the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, and a Rockefeller Fellow at the Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Her publications include two books, Altered Conditions: Disease, Medicine and Storytelling, and The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women’s Writing, two co-edited essay collections, Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust and Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, as well as numerous articles on 18th-century literature, cultural studies, and the history of medicine.

She earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.