Research Fields

• Modernism
• Posthumanism
• Continental philosophy
• Literature and Film
• Dante and Modernism

About

Ruben Borg is an Associate Professor in English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His work has appeared in numerous journals devoted to twentieth-century literature and film. His research interests include Irish Modernism, twentieth-century philosophy (especially the work of Gilles Deleuze), and the influence of Dante on modernist writers. His current project is a book on James Joyce and emotion.

 

Selected Publications

“Three Articles of Posthuman Modernism: The Metacinema of Marcel L'Herbier (and Friends).” Modernism/modernity (Print +) 4.4 (March 2020).

Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019.

“Putting the Impossible to Work: Beckettian Afterlife and the Posthuman Future of Humanity.” Journal of Modern Literature 35.4 (Summer 2012): 163-180.

“Mirrored Disjunctions: On a Deleuzo-Joycean Theory of the Image,” Journal of Modern Literature 33.2 (Spring 2010): 131-148.

The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida. Continuum Literary Studies. London: Continuum, 2007.

 

Selected Awards

Alon Fellowship (2008-2011)

ISF Grant

IFOBS Prize for best book-length publication on a Flann O'Brien theme (2019-2021)

 

Teaching

Narcissus on the Liffey: Image and Identity in Six Modern Irish Writers

Dante and Modernism

Spotlight Theory: Posthumanism

(BA) Paranoid Hermeneutics

The 19th Century British and American Novel

Modernism and Beyond