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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