About

Louise Bethlehem is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her book, Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath (2006) was translated into Hebrew by the Resling imprint (2011). She has co-edited nine volumes on South African literature, anti-apartheid expressive culture, African studies and cultural studies and was the Principal Investigator of the prestigious European Research Council project, APARTHEID-STOPS between 2014-2019.

Selected Publications

1. Bethlehem, Louise and Tal Zalmanovich, (eds). (2020). “Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle.” Special edition of Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 34(1), 128 Pages. Taylor and Francis: London and New York.

2. Bethlehem, Louise. 2018. “Restless Itineraries: Anti-Apartheid Expressive Culture

                and Transnational Historiography.” Social Text 36 (3 [136]): 47-69. 

https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-6917766.

3. Bethlehem, Louise. 2018. “Continuity and Change in Postapartheid Fiction,” Oxford Research             Encyclopedias: Literature, DOI.10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.193

4. Bethlehem, Louise. 2013. “Lauren Beukes’s Post-Apartheid Dystopia: Inhabiting Moxyland,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50(5): 522-534. Article featured in September 2015 among top twenty articles published in this journal in the previous five years.

5. Bethlehem, Louise. 2006. Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and Its Aftermath.  xvii + 145 Pages. Unisa (University of South Africa) Press, Pretoria; Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.

Selected Awards

Consolidators’ Grant European Research Council for the project APARTHEID-STOPS: “Apartheid the Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation, 1948-1990.”

Teaching

Postcolonial Theory

Gender, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism

Postapartheid Literature

Globalization and Solidarity in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

Modernism and Beyond

J.M. Coetzee: Postcolonial Metafiction

About

Micha Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works on the intellectual history and literary culture of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and in particular on the reception of the classics in sixteenth-century England. He is General Editor of Sources in Early Poetics (Brill), and co-convenor of Poetics before Modernity, an international project on the history of literary criticism. Before coming to the Hebrew University, Micha spent several years as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Warburg Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

Selected Publications

1. ‘Birdsongs and Sonnets: Acoustic Imitation in Renaissance Lyric’, Huntington Library Quarterly 84.4 (2021), 681-715.  [online here]

2. ‘Sublimity by fiat: New Light on the English Longinus’, in The Places of Early Modern Criticism, ed. Gavin Alexander, Emma Gilby, and Alexander Marr (Oxford, 2021), 191-205.  [online here]

3. ‘Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 73.1 (2020), 33-77.  [online here]

4. ‘The Dramatic Prologues of Alexander Nowell: Accommodating the Classics at 1540s Westminster’, Review of English Studies 69.288 (2018), 32-55.  [online here]

5. ‘Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England’, in Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press, 2016).  [online here]

Selected Awards

Herzog August Bibliothek Research Fellow, Wolfenbüttel (2022)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2022)

Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow, Warburg Institute, London (2020-2021)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2020)

Gordon Duff Prize in book history, University of Cambridge Libraries (2020); Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2012)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2019)

Renaissance Society of America Research Fellow (2018)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Award, Washington D.C. (2017)

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin (2016)

Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (2015–2021)

Teaching

Seventeenth-Century Poetry (B.A. seminar, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Poetry (B.A. lecture course, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Shakespeare (B.A. lecture course, Semester B, 2022/3)

Making it New in Renaissance England (M.A. seminar, Semester B, 2022/3)

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