Research Fields

• Contemporary Literature in English
• Global Literatures
• Popular Culture
• Violence--aesthetic and ethical aspects
• Trauma; Digital culture
• History of Technology

About

Prof. Naomi Mandel's research focuses on contemporary literature and critical theory, with special interest in the ethics and aesthetics of violence. She was Professor of English and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island, USA before joining the faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mandel’s current research focuses on the visual and literary culture of the digital revolution and the Information Age.

 

Selected Publications

Naomi Mandel. 2019. “Towards a new complicity for new media.” Comparative Literature Studies (CLS), 56, 4, Pp. 693-710

Mandel, Naomi. Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015

Mandel, Naomi, ed. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park. London: Continuum, 2011

Durand, Alain-Philippe and Naomi Mandel, eds. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. London: Continuum, 2006.

Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust and Slavery in America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.

 

Selected Awards

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Golda Meir Fellowship Fund, Faculty Fellowship | 2018-2019

 European Institutes for Advanced Study, Warsaw, Poland, 10-month residency Senior Fellowship | 2017-2018

The Israel Science Foundation, grant No. 1555/20. Hacking as Literary and Technological  Reciprocity: Backgrounds and Effects of the Human/Machine Symbiosis | 2020-2024

 

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to Fiction

American Literature and Culture

The 20th Century English and American Novel

Hacker Culture 

Classic Science Fiction

Representing Violence, (Amirim honors program)

Master's degree courses

20th Century Literary Theory

The 9/11 Novel

Image/Culture

The Vietnam War in Literature and Film