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Talia Abu

Talia Abu completed her PhD on James Joyce in the English Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Her research focuses on food studies and the regulation of emotions in modernism.
Shuli Barzilai

Shuli Barzilai

Shuli Barzilai is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books include Lacan and the Matter of Origins (Stanford UP, 1999), a study of the development of Jacques Lacan’s thinking about the mother’s role in psychical formation, and Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times (Routledge, 2009) in which she traces how the Bluebeard story is retold from the situated perspectives of writers such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Angela Carter, and Margaret Atwood. Her essay

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“Reading ‘Snow White’: The Mother’s Story,” first published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1990), has been anthologized and frequently taught in courses on feminism, critical theory, and autoethnography. Her essays have also appeared in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,Diacritics, Dickens Quarterly, Marvels & Tales, Partial Answers, PMLA, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Word & Image, among other journals, and in edited collections, including Critical Insights: Margaret Atwood (2012), Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television (2014) and The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales (2015).

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Galia Benziman

Galia Benziman

Galia Benziman (MA Advisor) is an Alon Fellow (2011-2014) and Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on British literature of the long nineteenth century; in particular, on Dickens, Hardy, the history of childhood, and the Elegy.

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She has published two books: Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture (2012, Palgrave Macmillan) and Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry: Codes of Bereavement (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). Her essays appeared in Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in the Novel, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, and other platforms.

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Karin Berkman

Karin Berkman

Karin Berkman completed her doctorate on the poetry of Seamus Heaney in the English Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation, 1948-1990,” led by Prof. Louise Bethlehem, she studied the notion of exile in South African poetry.

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Her research on South African and African poetry has been published in Critical Arts, Scrutiny and English in Africa. Her research interests include Irish literature, twentieth-century British and American poetry, South African poetry during apartheid and post-apartheid, post-colonialism and literary theory.

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Louise Bethlehem

Louise Bethlehem

Louise Bethlehem is Golda Meir Fellow (2002-2003) and Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her book, Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath (Unisa Press, Brill 2006), was published in Hebrew translation by Resling in 2011.

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She has co-edited nine volumes in the field of South African literature, African Studies and Cultural Studies, including the prizewinning volume South Africa in the Global Imaginary, co-edited with Leon de Kock and Sonja Laden (Unisa, 2004). Between 2014 and 2019, she was Principal Investigator of the research project Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation, 1948-1990 funded by a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC). In recognition of the importance of her research, she was appointed to Academia-Net: an Expert Database of Outstanding Female Scholars and Scientists, with the participation of 47 European science and research organizations. Bethlehem has held research fellowships from the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has served on the Academic Committee of the Institute. She has supervised over 30 graduate students, many of whom have gone on to secure academic appointments in their own right. 

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Ruben B

Ruben Borg

Ruben Borg (Chair) is an Alon Fellow (2008-2011) and Associate Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include Irish modernism, posthumanism, cyborg theory, and the dialogue between cinema and literature. His work has appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism / modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Poetics Today, and in numerous other journals devoted to twentieth-century literature and film. He has also contributed chapters to collaborative volumes on Deleuze, Beckett, and Posthumanism.

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Ruben is the author of The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida (2007), and of Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite (2019). He has co-edited three books on Flann O'Brien: Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies (listed in The Irish Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2014), Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority (2017) and the award winning Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour (2020: awarded the IFOBS prize for best book-length publication on Brian O'Nolan in 2021). His current project is a book on James Joyce and emotions.

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Sanford Budick

Sanford Budick

Sanford Budick received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1966. Before being appointed Professor of English at The Hebrew University he was Professor of English at Cornell University. At The Hebrew University he served twice as chair of the English department, was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, and was founding-director (1980-2000) of the Center for Literary Studies. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships. He has written books on Dryden, on eighteenth-century poetry, on Milton, on Kant’s relation to Milton, and on the Western theory of tradition.

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He has edited collections of essays with Geoffrey Hartman and Wolfgang Iser. With Wolfgang Iser he directed a three-year research project of the The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development on “The Institutions of Interpretation.” He is currently writing about Shakespeare’s plays, Wordsworth’s poetry, and Milton’s influence on Wordsworth.

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Noa Erez

Noa Erez

Noa Erez, graduate of the English Department, teaches writing and language skills in the English Department and in the Joseph Saltiel University Preparatory Center at the Hebrew University. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. Her current research focuses on subversive representations of gender and sexuality in fan fiction. 

Chaya Fischer

Chaya Fischer

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chaya.fischer@mail.huji.ac.il

Chaya Fischer teaches language and writing skills in the English Department at the Hebrew University. Her work includes developing innovative curricula for academic reading and writing courses based on her background in Cognitive Science. She is an Associate Editor ofPartial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas.

Zachary Garber

Zachary Garber

Zachary Garber teaches Gothic and Romantic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a DPhil candidate and Clarendon Scholar in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, where he researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chronicle adaptations and the genre’s relevance to contemporary politics. His dissertation ties in with his broader interest in the relationship of historiography to fiction, particularly the narrative techniques used by historical novelists to present their texts as historical artifacts and the relationship invoked between author, narrator, and reader to cope with competing visions of the violent past. His latest article appears in English: Journal of the English Association (2022).
Yara Ibrahim

Yara Ibrahim

Yara Ibrahim teaches language and writing skills in the English Department at the Hebrew University. Her master's thesis focused on surveillance and memory in dystopian fiction.
Rivka Ilani

Rivka Ilani

Rivka Ilani teaches language and writing skills in the English Department at the Hebrew University. Her current research is focused on temporal evolution within the pastoral mode in 19th and 20th century novels.
Taylor Johnston

Taylor Johnston

Taylor Johnston is a teaching fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a postdoctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she researches 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American fiction, literary realism, and critical race theory.

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In 2019-20, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Tel Aviv University's Center for the Study of the United States in partnership with the Fulbright program. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (2019) and her M.A. in English with a Creative Writing focus (2018) from UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, The Raymond Carver Review, and is forthcoming in Twentieth-Century Literature. Her first book project, That Class Which Is Not One, explores critical representations of the white lower middle class in American fiction of the 1970s and 80s. Most recently, she has conducted research on racial affect in African American fiction and the politics of twentieth-century pandemic fiction.

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Micha Lazarus

Micha Lazarus

Micha Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works on the intellectual history and literary culture of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and in particular on the reception of the classics in sixteenth-century England. He is General Editor of Sources in Early Poetics (Brill), and co-convenor of Poetics before Modernity, an international project on the history of literary criticism. Before coming to the Hebrew University, Micha spent several years as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Warburg Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

Yael Levin

Yael Levin

Yael Levin is associate professor of English, the associate provost for academic affairs at the Rothberg International School and President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is currently working at the Mandel Scholion Research Center on 'The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture'. Her monographs include Joseph Conrad: Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in journals and volumes including The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies.

Judy Levy

Judy Levy

Judith Levy is Senior Teacher (retired) in the Dept. of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of V. S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography (Garland Press, 1995; reissued by Routledge, 2016), and articles on Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Nadine Gordimer, Christa Wolf and collective memory, among others. 

Nuria

Nuria Levy

nuria.levy@mail.huji.ac.il
Nuria Levy teaches language and writing skills in the English Department at the Hebrew University. Her current research is focused on female reading in Jane Austen’s novels. 
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Shachar Livne

Shachar Livne

Shachar Livne is an adjunct lecturer in the English Department and a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University.

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Her Dissertation explored Dante Alighieri's reception among his poetic successors in the 14th century. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded several scholarships, among them the President's and Azrieli Fellowships. She also spent time as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's English Department, as well as at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Her research interests include Middle English literature, Medieval poetics, English Petrarchism, and the reception of the Classical and Italian heritage and poetics in the British Isles during the late medieval and early modern periods.

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Naomi Mandel

Naomi Mandel

Naomi Mandel (BA advisor) was Professor of English and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island before joining the faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is Associate Professor of English and holds the Ann and Joseph Edelman Chair of American Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary literature and critical theory, with particular interests in the aesthetics and ethics of violence.

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She is the author of Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America (University of Virginia Press, 2006) and Disappear Here: Violence after Generation X (Ohio State UP, 2015), and has published three volumes of edited essays, including Bret Easton Ellis (Continuum, 2010) and Novels of the Contemporary Extreme (co-edited with Alain-Philippe Durand; Continuum, 2006). Her work on American Slavery, the Holocaust, and the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Dialectical Anthropology, and boundary 2. Mandel’s current research focuses on the visual and literary culture of the digital revolution and the Information Age.

 

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Liza Michaeli

Liza Michaeli

Liza Michaeli is a Jerusalem-born Russian poet and philosopher. She is completing a doctorate in Rhetoric, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Jewish Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley.  She regularly teaches in literature, existential philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, religion, and music. Recovering the Pain, her first book, originating in her dissertation, considers what it means to touch life and live it, in its physical struggle, honestly, to say "yes" to life, physically. Her second book project, How We Are with One Another, considers what it takes to be human with one another.