Eva Kollisch, who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria when she was a teenager to become an American professor and memoirist who broke new ground in feminist studies and championed equal rights for lesbians, died on Oct.
10 at her home in Manhattan. She was 98. The cause was a chest infection, her son, Uri Berliner, said. The author of two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” (2000) and “The Ground Under My Feet” (2007), Ms.
Kollisch taught for 30 years at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., where, with Gerda Lerner, Joan Kelly and Sherry Ortner, she helped introduce a foundational women’s studies curriculum.
Professor Lerner recalled in an interview in 2000, “We took four faculty: Joan Kelly for Renaissance, myself for American history, Eva Kollisch for literature and Sherry Ortner for anthropology.