Research Fields
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
- the Subject
- Disability Studies
- Narratology
- Writer's Bloc
About
Yael Levin is Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, director of The Barbara and Morton Mandel Doctoral Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Vice President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is the author of Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford UP, 2020). Her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies as well as in a number of edited collections.
Selected Publications
Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism. London: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad’s Novels. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"Beckett's Path of Least Resistance: Attention, Distraction, Drift.” Estudios Irlandeses. 14:2 (2019) 38-51.
“Univocity, Exhaustion and Failing Better: Reading Beckett with Disability Studies.” Journal of Beckett Studies 27.2 (2018): 157-174.
“The Spatialization of Moral Judgment: Borders in Conrad’s “Amy Foster,” Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes.” Conradiana 49.2-3 (2017): 85-102.
Selected Awards
2021-2023 Awarded funding from the Scholion School of Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the research group “Attention and the Evolution of the Human Subject.”
2020 Awarded a grant to host “Coming to Attention” by the Israel Science Foundation. This is a workshop on New Modernisms that was held in Jerusalem during 6/2021.
2017-2020 Recipient of the Israeli Science Foundation three-year research grant for the project “Pioneering the Slow: Joseph Conrad’s Other Modernisms.”
Teaching
BA
20th Century Novel
Horror: At the Margins of Subjectivity
Villains in English Literature
American Literature and Culture
MA
Writer's Block
20th Century Literary Theory