Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
School of Humanities

Core Faculty, Global Middle East Studies

Core Faculty, Jewish Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Critical Theory

Modern Hebrew and Arabic literature and film; critical theory; political theory; conflict, law and colonization; translation studies; visual studies

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Frankel Institute Fellow, 2022-2023 (on leave)
UCHRI Residential Research Group Fellow, 2019
Anne Tanenbaum Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 2015-2016
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2013-2014

I am currently completing a manuscript entitled “Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Israel-Palestine,” which looks to Hebrew and Arabic literature to reassess the meaning of political conflict. My research and teaching interests include Modern and contemporary Israeli and Palestinian literature and film, the concept of Arab Jews and their cultural production, critical and political theory, conflict, law and colonization, visual studies and questions of translation and comparison.

Book:
Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Israel-Palestine, Fordham University Press, forthcoming.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Zionist Speculation: Colonial Vision and Its Sublime Turn,” Theory & Event, Vol. 26, no. 1, 2023, pp. 154-185.

“Reorienting Visual Reading: From Colonial Visions to the Subtexts ‘Facing Us,’” Qui Parle, vol. 31, no. 2, 2022, pp. 189-229.

“Through Locked Doors: Shimon Ballas, Portraits of Exile and the Form of Comparison,” in a special issue in memory of the Iraqi-Jewish author Shimon Ballas of ha-Kivun Mizrah, Vol. 37, 2020, pp. 94-99 (Hebrew).

“Resistance into Incitement: Translation, Legislation, ‘Early Detection’ and the Palestinian Poet’s Intention,” Arab Studies Journal, vol. 27, no.1, 2019, pp. 118-54.

“Humor and the Law of Rights: Voltaire’s Cosmopolitan Optimism and Emile Habiby’s Dissensual Pessoptimism,” Comparative Literature, vol. 71, no. 2, 2019, pp. 171-93.

“From Representation to Performance: The Politics of the Tent Phenomenon in Recent Political Protests in Israel and Palestine" (Hebrew). Israeli Visual Culture Anthology. Eds. Sivan Shtang and Noa Hazan. ha-?ibuts ha-Me?u?ad and Shen?ar Press, 2017, pp. 198-223.

“Nihilism and Repetition: Dahlia Ravikovitch’s Reiterations as Critique.” The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel. Eds. Nitzan Lebovic and Roy Ben Shai. Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 151-76.

“Translation.” Mafte'akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought, vol. 2E, 2011, pp. 113-46.

“Tirgum (Translation),” Mafte'akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought, vol. 2, 2010, pp. 157-92 (Hebrew).


Translations:
Lezra, Jacques. “Translation.” Mafte'akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought, vol. 6, 2013, pp. 111-36 (Hebrew).

Bollas, Christopher. Hysteria. Tolaat Sefarim Press, 2009 (Hebrew).


Media:
“Conspiracies,” a podcast by a UCHRI Residential Research Group, Foundry, January 2020.

“Vampires,” a podcast by a UCHRI Residential Research Group, Foundry, September 2019.

“‘You Never Return, You Go’: An Interview with Elias Khoury,” Erets ha-Emori, July 2013 (Hebrew, online).

“Save Bab al-Shams.” Erets ha-Emori, January 2013 (Hebrew, online).

“I am Not Here,” The New Hebrew Diaspora Series, Erets ha-Emori, July 2012 (Hebrew, online).

American Comparative Literature Association

Association for Jewish Studies

Middle East Studies Association

Editor, US Editorial Collective, Postcolonial Studies (2018-2021)

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Last updated
01/25/2023