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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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

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

About

Dr. Amir Engel is a lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem German department. He studied philosophy, literature and culture-studies at the Hebrew University and completed his PhD at the German studies department at Stanford University, California, USA. Subsequently, Engel taught and conducted research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His main topics of interest include German Romanticism and German postwar literature and culture, theories of myth, literature and philosophy and history of culture. He is also interested in intercultural transference, Jewish German culture, and German 20th century intellectual history. He has written a book about Gershom Scholem and has published articles about Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, Martin Buber, Jacob Taubes, Salomon Maimon and others.

Selected Publications

Amir Engel, Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) (Paperback edition Summer 2019).

Jacob Taubes, From Cult to Culture. Eds. Amir Engel and Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 445 pp.

Amir Engel, “A Brave New Word: Hannah Arendt’s Postwar Reading of Kafka” in Kafka after Kafka Eds. Iris Bruce and Mark Gelber (Rochester: Camden House), 2019, 29-44.

Amir Engel, “Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West-Germany,” New German Critique 140, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2020, 1- 20.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Love and Romantics in German Literature (Fall-Spring 2018-9)

Literature after the Catastrophe: Postwar German Culture (Spring 2019)

Freud-Nietzsche-Marx: Meditations on a Changing World (Fall 2019)

Introduction to German Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries (Spring 2019)

Introduction to German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries (Fall 2018)

The German Enlightenment (Spring 2018)

Introduction to German Literature in the 19th and 20th centuries (Spring 2018)

Introduction to German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries (Fall 2017)
 

Master's degree courses

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About

Alexander Kulik is a philologist and historian whose research concentrates on the cross-cultural transmission of texts and ideas. He studied at the Moscow State University, received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University. Kulik has authored five books and edited seven volumes. Together with Moshe Taube he initiated and headed the international research group at the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies. He founded and headed the Brill book series Studia Judaeoslavica. Alexander Kulik has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, University College London, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Université de Lausanne, Freie Universität Berlin, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, and National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Presently, he serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and Chair of the Academic Committee of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. He holds the Tamara and Savely Grinberg Chair of Russian Studies at the Hebrew University. Prof. Kulik is a member of the International Committee of Slavists.


Selected Publications

Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004 / Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005)

3 Baruch: Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009)

Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; with S. Minov)

Jews in Old Rus’: A Documentary History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for HURI, forthcoming)

Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press; editor-in-chief, with G. Boccaccini, L. DiTommaso, D. Hamidovic, M. Stone, 2019).

Selected Awards

2007—2011       Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in Intercultural Transmission,” ILS 550,000.

2010—2016       European Research Council (ERC), “Jews and Slavs in the Middle Ages: Interaction and Cross-Fertilization,” EUR 1.044 million

2014—2018      German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), “Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven: Judaeo-Christian Encounters and the Last Lingua Sacra of Europe” (with Moshe Taube [HU], Rainer Kampling [FU Berlin], Florentina Badalanova Geller [FU Berlin]), EUR 180,000

2016—2021      Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “The Bible in Russian Modernism” (with Roman Timenchik), ILS 600,000

2020—present   Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “Jews in Eastern Europe: 10th-14th centuries,” ILS 560,000

Teaching

BA

Russian and Slavic Linguistics

Old Church Slavonic

Introduction to Russian Culture

Introduction to Russian and East European Film and Film Theory

Russian Literature and Film

Jews of Medieval Rus'

Apocalyptic Literature

MA

The Bible in Slavic Traditions

Slavic Pseudepigrapha

The Bible in Russian Modernism

Russian Modernism in the Intercultural Context

Studies in Thematic Criticism

Literature and Art

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

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

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
 

About

Aldina Quintana Rodríguez is a tenured senior lecturer based in the the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and  the Department of General Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a specialist in Spanish Philology, Ibero-Romance Languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching
focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language variation of Spanish and Judeo-Spanish.

Dr. Quintana Rodríguez holds an M.A. degree in Spanish Philology and Geman Philology from the Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following completion of the PhD, Dr. Quintana was a post-doctoral fellow of the Women’s Group of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) before joining the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Romance and Latin American Studies in 2009.
Dr. Quintana Rodríguez has been corresponding academician of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) since 2015.

About

Yuval Tal is a historian of modern France and the French colonial Empire in North Africa. His research brings the history of Christians, Muslims, and Jews from across Europe and the Mediterranean into a shared analytical framework. This desegregated method allows him to bridge the divide between national and imperial histories of Europe and bring into view sublimated ethnic premises and biases that haunt European liberal democracies.

Selected Publications

“The ‘Latin’ Melting-Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021), 85-118.

“The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30 (2018), 17-36.

Teaching

Gender and Law in France, 1870-2022

Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern France 

After Empire: Decolonization and the Remaking of Europe

The Right to the City in Modern Paris: Race, Sexuality, and Capitalism

Selected Publications

Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton, 2006)

Ethics and the Beast (Princeton, 2007)

Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self (The University of Michigan Press, 2014)

Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford, 2017

Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Shakespeare: Selected Plays

Ecocriticism

Money and Literature

Shakespeare: from text to performance

Master's degree courses

Poetic Justice

Philosophy and Literature

Love in Philosophy and Literature

Shakespeare's Comedies

The Poetry of Faith