Research Fields

• English literature
• Victorian literature
• The long nineteenth century

About

Prof. Galia Benziman is Associate Professor of 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.

 

Selected Publications

Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture (2012, Palgrave Macmillan)

Thomas Hardy's Elegiac Prose and Poetry: Codes of Bereavement (2018, Palgrave Macmillan)

“Dickens, Hard Times, and the Erasure of Female Origins,” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 2020

“Talking Birds and Talking to Birds: Transcending the Child in Barnaby Rudge,” Dickens Studies Annual 2021

“Oliver Twist: Urban Aesthetics and the Homeless Child,” in The Oxford Handbook to Charles Dickens, 2018

 

Selected Awards

Alon

Golda Meir

Fulbright

Rotenstreich

 

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Historical Approach to English Literature

Becoming Women - the Female Bildungsroman

Puritan, Romantic and Victorian Childhood

Versions of Pastoral

 

Master's degree courses

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