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Miriam Poupko

Miriam Poupko

miriam.poupko@mail.huji.ac.il

Miriam Poupko teaches language and writing skills in the English Department at the Hebrew University. She also teaches and develops curricula for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses in the Israeli tertiary education system.

Shlomith Rimmon Kenan

Shlomith Rimmon Kenan

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned her B.A and M.A degrees, summa cum laude, at the Hebrew University. Received her Ph.D from the University of London and did her postdoctoral studies at Yale University and Paris. She is a theoretician of literature an internationally respected narratologist.

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Her books – The Concept of Ambiguity, The Example of James; Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics; A Glance beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity – are widely acclaimed, and the second has been translated into eight languages. Prof. Rimmon-Kenan has also published numerous essays in professional periodicals both about narratology and about specific authors like James, Faulkner, Nabokov, Morrison, and others. In the last few years Prof. Rimmon-Kenan has been exploring interdisciplinary junctions like literature and psychoanalysis, law, history, and medicine (illness narratives). After joining the Israel Academy (2013), her interdisciplinary research has broadened to include ideology and politics. In collaboration with Prof. Susan Lanser, Brandeis University, USA, she studies narratives concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Together, they organized a few international seminars on the subject and published several essays in prestigious periodicals. And they are still at it! Prof. Rimmon-Kenan supervised 44 doctoral students and was a visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Helsinki. In 2019 she received a prestigious award on behalf of the International Society for the Study of Narrative: The Wayne C.Booth Lifetime Achievement Award. She is married, mother of two and grandmother of one..

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Leona Toker

Leona Toker

Leona Toker is Professor Emerita of English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000), Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (2010), Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading (2019), and articles on English, American, and Russian writers.

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She is Editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, a semiannual refereed academic periodical sponsored by the Institute for Literatures of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University. Her current research deals with narratological issues and with Vladimir Nabokov’s midlife works.

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Eynel Wardi

Eynel Wardi

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mseynel@mscc.huji.ac.il

Eynel Wardi is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other Speaking Subjects (2000).

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Ruben Weiss

Ruben Weiss is a doctoral student in the English Department at the Hebrew University who teaches the tutorial to the introductory course to literary theory. He is a fellow at the Mandel Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and an Associate Editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. His dissertation focuses on how child characters and representations of childhood are used by four nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors—Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, and Virginia Woolf—to make sense of British history.

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Jon Whitman

Jon Whitman

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msjdw@mscc.huji.ac.il

Jon Whitman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where for many years he also directed the Center for Literary Studies. His research explores the interaction of intellectual and imaginative changes from antiquity to the modern period. He is the author of Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique (co-published by Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press in 1987) and the editor of two collective studies: Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period (published by Brill in 2000) and Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period (published by Cambridge University Press in 2015). 

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Shira Wolosky

Shira Wolosky received her B.A. from Brown University (summa, Phi Beta Kappa) and her Ph.D. with distinction from Princeton University in Comparative Literature in 1981. She was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University in 1985, where she is Professor of English and American Studies.

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Her books include Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War (Yale UP, 1984); Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language (Stanford UP, 1994); The Art of Poetry (Oxford UP, 2002); “Nineteenth Century American Poetry,” the Cambridge History of American Literature IV (2004); Defending Identity with Natan Sharansky (Public Affairs, 2008); The Riddles of Harry Potter (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010); Feminist Theory Across Disciplines (Routledge, 2013), as well as other writings on literature, religion, and contemporary theory.
Her awards and research appointments include a Fulbright Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Tikvah Fellowship at NYU Law School, and a Drue Heinz Visiting Professorship at Oxford. She was also a Fellow at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Katz Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is currently working on a book on Jewish Thought and Postmodern Theory, with special focus on Emmanuel Levinas.

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Tara Zafft

Tara Zafft

Tara Zafft teaches language and writing skills in the English Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her BA degree, cum laude, in Russian Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She was awarded her PhD degree in Modern Languages from the University of Bath.
Her current research and writing interests concern women’s writing and contemporary poetry. She has most recently published works in Rumors Secrets and Lies, Poems about Abortion, Pregnancy and Choice (2022, Anhinga Press), The San Diego Poetry Annual, and Write-Haus.
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Tzachi Zamir

Tzachi Zamir is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton, 2006), Ethics and the Beast (Princeton, 2007), Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self (The University of Michigan Press 2015), Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford, 2017) and Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2019). He is also the editor of Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford, 2017).