Student
| MA Thesis Title | Supervisor | Year
Completed
|
Yuval Carmel
| Ghostly Hauntings of the Past: The Gothic Ghost in Works by Wharton, Leroux, and du Maurier
| Eitan Bar-Yosef
| 2024
|
Amit Haddad
| Textual Melancholia in Glikl's Memoirs
and Emma Lieber's The Writing Cure
| Yael Segalovitz &
Iris Idelson-Shein
| 2023
|
Ido Lior
| Heroes from Hell: Shylock, Caliban
and Lucifer in Early Modern Literature
and Postmodern Popular Culture
| Aaron Landau
| 2023
|
Eden Ashkenzi
| Listening In: Sound in Tommy Orange's
There There and Claudia Rankine's
Citizen: An American
| Yael Ben-zvi & Yael Segalovitz
| 2023
|
Tal Maletin
| Dickinson's Resistance: Self–Archiving
in Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Letters
| Zohar Weiman-Kelman
| 2023
|
Neta Kleine
| Body of Work: Corporeal Pain in the
Poetry of Mina Loy and Marina Tsvetaeva
| Yael Segalovitz
& Efraim Sicher
| 2022
|
Nitzan Halperin
| Readers and Reading in Charlotte
Brontë's Jane Eyre and in Three
Contemporary Re-imaginings
| Eitan Bar-Yosef | 2022
|
| Tom Cohen | Yoruba Mythology and Cosmology
in Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon
| Yael Ben-zvi &
Lynn Schler
| 2021
|
Ido Zac
| Israeli Nationalism in Shimon Halkin's
Hebrew Translation of Leaves of Grass
| Yael Segalovitz
& Yael Ben-zvi
| 2021
|
Asaf Bracha
| H.G. Wells and the Environment:
Nature, Ecology, and Pollution in Three
Works by Wells
| Eitan Bar-Yosef
| 2021
|
Nazeny
Hovakimyan
| The Child in the New England Primer
and the Mcloughlin Brothers’ ABC Books:
from Piety to Playfulness
| Barbara Hochman
& Yael Ben-zvi
| 2021
|
Dor Goldtzvaig
| Reading Two Coming-of-Age Novel
Sequences by Louisa May Alcott
| Chanita Goodblatt
& Ilana Rosen
| 2021
|
Priel Cohanim
| Freed from the Shackles of Any History: Archival Practices in DC Comics' Flashpoint
| Zohar Weiman-Kelman & Yael Ben-zvi
| 2020
|
Shiran Goldstein
| Cursed by Nature? The Male and Female
Witch in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
| Aaron Landau
| 2019
|
Michal Calo
| "The Clitoris in Her
Last Speech":
Muriel Rukeyser’s Corporeal Poetics
| Barbara Hochman &
Zohar Weiman-Kelman
| 2019
|
Steven Weinberg
| Kafka’s The Trial: A Reevaluation of
Morality and a Critique of Jurisprudence
| Mark Gelber | 2019
|
Ksania Katzman
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
Reading Darwin in Edith Wharton's
"Bunner Sisters" and The House of Mirth
| Barbara Hochman & Yael Ben-zvi
| 2019
|
Bracha
Faygel Vaknin
| Conceiving Virginia Woolf’s Life:
A Multi-Generic Approach
| Chanita Goodblatt | 2019
|
Shira Levy
| Storytelling, Temporality and Familial
Narrative in Grace Paley's Short Fiction
| Zohar Weiman-Kelman
| 2018
|
Elise Gelkoff
| (R)Evolutionary Mothers
in Edith Wharton’s Early Fiction
| Barbara Hochman
& Yael Ben-zvi
| 2018
|
Naama Schwartz
| Rethinking the Gothic Effect:
Excess, Transgression and the
Role of Disidentification in Gothic Fiction
| Eitan Bar-Yosef | 2018 |
| Yael Nehushtai | Urban Horror in Victorian and Postmodern Gothic Fiction: The Mysteries of London
and American Psycho
| Efraim Sicher | 2017 |
| Uriel Rosenbloom | Alienated American Homes:
Cosmic and Gothic Houses in
H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction | Barbara Hochman & Catherine Rottenberg
| 2017 |
| Milana Badalov | Converted Daughters and Betrayed Fathers: Representations of the Semitic Other in Marlowe, Shakespeare and Cervantes
| Aaron Landau | 2017 |
Tagrid Morad
| Varying Perspectives on Margaret Mead: Autobiography, Memoir and Letters
| Chanita Goodblatt | 2017 |
| Jacqueline Kim Meyer | Witchcraft and Magic in Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays: A Shifting Perspective
| Aaron Landau | 2016 |
| Elina Gomberg | Blame It on the Mother: Ideals of
Motherhood in America, 1892-2003
| Barbara Hochman | 2016 |
| Eiman Jummal | Negotiations of Adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and
Yusef Idris's The Sinners
| Yael Ben-zvi | 2016 |
| Ohad Reznick | Passing for White and Passing for Gentile
in Postwar American Fiction
| Barbara Hochman
& Eitan Bar-Yosef | 2016 |
| Michal Slossberg | Intertextuality as a Form of Critique in Edith Wharton's "Bunner Sisters" and "Summer"
| Barbara Hochman
& Eitan Bar-Yosef | 2016 |
| Naomi Yeshayahou | Villains and Lackeys in Victorian Literature (1860-1881) | Catherine Rottenberg & Eitan Bar-Yosef
| 2016 |
| Hiba Nser | Social Class and Marriage in Jane Austin's Persuasion
| Chanita Goodblatt
| 2015
|
| Kathi Pearlmutter | Poetry and History in WWI Commonwealth Cemeteries in Israel
| Chanita Goodblatt | 2015 |
| Eyal Soffer | The Machiavellian Sources of Frank
Herbert's Dune
| Chanita Goodblatt
| 2015
|
| Nevet Tachnai | Marital Abuse in the Nineteenth-Century
British Novel
| Efraim Sicher | 2015 |
| Valerie Khaskin | Feminist Discourse and the Changing
of the Vampire, 1890s-2000s
| Eitan Bar-Yosef | 2015 |
| Leonard Stein | To Conceal In Order to Reveal: Identity Formation in Crypto-Jewish American Literature
| Efraim Sicher | 2015 |
| Inna Speisky Kotovski | Domestic Drama and Shakespearean High Tragedy
| Aaron Landau | 2015 |
| Boris Grushko | The Fetishization of Foreignness
in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence
| Eitan Bar-Yosef | 2014 |
| Shany Rozenblatt | The Representation of Jewish Masculinity
in Contemporary American Sitcom
| Efraim Sicher | 2014 |
| Lilach Shahar | Heredity and Environment, Alcohol, Gender Norms, and Sexuality: The Influence of
Zola's l'Assommoir on Norris's McTeague
| Barbara Hochman | 2014 |
| Mark Elliott Shapiro | Irony After Auschwitz?
A Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Poetry of Dan Pagis and A. M. Klein
| Efraim Sicher | 2013 |
| Adaya Amar | Power and Sexuality in the Narrative
of the House of David
| Chanita Goodblatt | 2013 |
| Aviv Ben-Aliezer | How Women Who Were Artists' Models
for the Pre-Raphaelite Painters Became
Artists Themselves
| Eitan Bar-Yosef
& Guy Beiner | 2013 |
| Idmit Drori | Reading Poetic Metaphor: An Empirical Study | Chanita Goodblatt | 2013
|
Ilana Bergsagel
| The Ethics of Relationships in John Donne's Love Poetry
| Chanita Goodblatt
| 2013
|
| Shimron Louis Lyons Tubman | From Kitchen to Kitchen: The Domestic Path
to Freedom in Uncle Tom's Cabin
| Barbara Hochman | 2013 |
| Elizaveta Futerman | Rethinking Barthes' Photographic Evidence through Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
| Yael Ben-zvi | 2012 |
| Yehudit Gilead | In Bluebeard's Castles: Jane Eyre and the Interpellated [S]ubject
| Eitan Bar-Yosef
& Aaron Landau | 2012 |
| Sima Goldenfeld | F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving Representation
of War - from High-School Prose to The Great Gatsby
| Barbara Hochman | 2012 |
| Beeba Matthew | Layers of Identity in Minority Literature in Israel: A Comparative Reading of Anton Shammas, Eli Amir and Sami Michael
| Chanita Goodblatt | 2012 |
| Danielle Rubin | To Live Together in the Finest Sense: The Confidence-Man's Fictional Community
| Yael Ben-zvi | 2012 |
| Adva Salomon | The Story of the Breedloves: Voicing the 'Pathological' Family in Toni Morrison's
The Bluest Eye
| Yael Ben-zvi | 2012 |
| Hila Maiman | No Time to Be Sentimentering:
Sentimentalism in Huckleberry Finn
| Barbara Hochman | 2011 |
| Donna Metreger | The Image of the Mother in the Hebrew Bible
| Chanita Goodblatt | 2011 |
| Sima Murinson Goldenfeld | Fitzgerald's Evolving Representation of War – From This Side of Paradise to The Great Gatsby
| Barbara Hochman | 2011 |
| Peter Doughty | Wise Blood: Self-Knowledge and the Ethics
of Dialogism
| Barbara Hochman | 2010 |
| Irena Bar-Sela | Age and Aging: Age Markers in the Representation of the Old Woman in Contemporary English Fiction
| Barbara Hochman
& Gerda Elata | 2009 |
| Miri Chertok | The Sun Also Rises: The Passion
of Roberto Cohn
| Barbara Hochman | 2009 |
| Alana Sobelman | In Defense of Fiction: Representations of Trauma in Shoah Literature
| Mark Gelber | 2009 |
| Ilana Vinnitzky | The City in the Poetry of Aleksandr Blok
| Efraim Sicher | 2009 |
| Oren Bahar | Psychoanalytic Readings
of Edgar Allan Poe's Male and Female Texts
| Mark Gelber | 2008 |
| Linda Dayan | The Anatomy of an Anthology: Malcolm Cowley's Portable Faulkner
| Barbara Hochman | 2007 |
| Shlomi Deloia | Retrieving the Footprints: Passing into Whiteness and the Construction of Jewish American Cultural Identity in Anzia
Yezierska's Bread Givers
| Barbara Hochman
& Tresa Grauer
| 2006
(with distinction) |
| Hamutal Yellin | A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Masked Criticism in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
| Barbara Hochman | 2006 |
| Marya Levin | What Makes the Man: Character versus Literacy in The Virginian and Martin Eden
| Barbara Hochman | 2005 |
June O. Leavitt
| The Tarot in Yates, Eliot, and Kafka
| Marg Gelber
| 2005
|
| Daphna Sharan | Black Invisibility: Faulkner's
"A Rose for Emily" and "Dry September"
| Barbara Hochman | 2005 |
| Zehava Rotman | Letters and Readers in Jane Austen | Barbara Hochman | 2005
|
