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Areas of Interest:

Studies in the novel, history and theory of the novel, Israeli literature and society, modern Jewish fiction.

Education:

Ph.D. Princeton University; M.A. Georgetown University; B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Taught Previously at:

Brandeis, Cornell and Princeton

Grants, Awards and Fellowships:

-Visiting Professor, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Haifa University (Spring 2016)
-Visiting Professor, Paris INALCO (Fall 2015)
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2006-09)
- FQRSC programme pour l'茅tablissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs (2006-2009)
- Lady Davis Fellowship, Institute of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University (2008-09)
- W. and F. Hewlett Foundation, "Strengthening Interdisciplinary Connections" (2000-2001)
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-2001)
- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (2007, 2000)

Publications:

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Books

(Penn State UP, 2020)

(Stanford University Press, 2012)

(Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2003)

Articles

鈥淎. B. Yehoshua and the Novel of Vocation,鈥� Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 37 (2019): 688-710 (special issue in memory of Alan Mintz z鈥漧).

鈥淗ebrew Literature in the 鈥榃orld Republic of Letters鈥�: Translation and Reception, 1918-2018鈥� (with Madeleine Gottesman),听Israel Studies Review听33.2 (2018): 1-25.

"The Watchman鈥檚 Stance in A. B. Yehoshua鈥檚 Fiction,"听Hebrew Studies听58 (2017): 357-382.

"Holidays in A. B. Yeshoshua's Opus and Ethos,"听Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Studies听35.2 (2017): 55-80.

鈥淯nflattening Mrs. Micawber,鈥澨�Dickens Quarterly听33.3 (2016): 201-222.

鈥淟a formation d鈥檜ne identit茅 isra茅lienne dans l鈥櫯搖vre de A.B. Yehoshua.鈥� Une journ茅e avec Avraham Yehoshua.听La c茅libataire, revue Lacanienne听30 (2016): 161-172.

鈥淎gnon鈥檚 Conversation with Jeremiah in听A Guest for the Night: `Aginut in an Age of National Modernization鈥澨�AJS Review听38.2 (2014): 395-416: 听

鈥淲here is the Sephardism in A. B. Yehoshua鈥檚听Hesed Sefardi/The Retrospective?鈥澨�Sephardic Horizons听4.1 (2014):听

鈥淭he Life and Times of the Picaro-Converso from Spain to Latin America,鈥� in听Sephardism,听Ed. Y. Halevi-Wise听(Stanford UP, 2012):143-66.

"A Taste of Sepharad from the Suburbs of Mexico: Rosa Nissan's Ladino in听Novia que te vea听and听Hisho que te nazca," in Sephardic Identity in the Americas, Ed. M. Bejarano and E. Aizenberg (Syracuse UP, 2012).

"Reading Agnon's听In the Prime of Her Life in Light of Freud's Dora," Jewish Quarterly Review听98.1 (2008): 29-40.

" 'The Double Triangle Paradigm' in Hebrew Fiction: National Redemption in Bigenerational Love Triangles from Agnon to Oz,"听Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 26听(2006): 309-343.

"Ethics and Aesthetics of Memory in Contemporary Mizrahi Literature,"听The Journal of Israeli History听20.1 (Spring 2001): 49-66.

"Little Dorrit's Story,"听The Dickensian听94.446 (1998): 184-94.

"The Rhetoric of Silence in Conrad's听Lord Jim,"听Anatomies of Silence听(1998): 98-105.

"Storytelling in听Like Water for Chocolate," The Other Mirror听(1997): 123-131.

"The Play within the Play as a Model of Fictionality,"听Mundos de Ficcion II听(1996): 899-91.

Book Reviews

鈥淶eruya Shalev鈥檚 Pain,鈥� Words Without Borders (January 2020 issue)

"Gilead Morahg, Compassion and Fury: On The Fiction of A. B. Yehoshua," Hebrew Studies 56 (2015): 101-104.

鈥淒an Miron, From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking,鈥� Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 11.1 (2013): 173-177.

鈥淒eborah Starr and Sasson Somekh, Eds. 鈥�Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff,鈥� Sephardic Horizons 2.1 (Winter 2012): 听

鈥淵ael Feldman, Glory and Agony: Isaac鈥檚 Sacrifice and National Narrative,鈥� Shofar 30.4 (2012). Print version forthcoming. Online version:

鈥淣itza Ben-Dov, Ve-hi鈥檛ehilatkha: Iyyunim bi-yetsirot Shai Agnon, A. B. Yehoshua ve-Amos Oz,鈥� AJS Review 35.1 (2011): 208-11.

Current Research:

Representations/manipulations of history in the modern literary imagination.