American and British Poetry; philosophy and literature; trauma studies; war literature; disability studies; 18th-century English culture

(a) Authored Books

1. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2022. Poetic Prosthetics: Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

(b) Articles in peer-reviewed journals

1. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2008. "Robinson Crusoe, Wittgenstein, and the Return to Society." Philosophy and Literature 32, no. 2: 278-292.

2. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2017. "'Buoyed Up by That Coffin': Contemporary Soldier Poetry and the Poetic Prosthesis." Symplokē 25, no. 1-2: 389-404.

3. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2018. "Wilfred Owen, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Battle with Language after War." Philosophy and Literature 42, no. 2: 344-360.

4. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2018. "The Collapsing Roof of History: James Joyce, Josephus Flavius, and the Duty of Memory." South Atlantic Review 83, no. 2: 47-66.

5. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2021. "Henryk Grynberg and the Feminine Task of Surviving War." Archiwum Emigracji: The Archives of Polish and East European Emigration, accepted.

6. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2021. "Jonathan Swift and the Nature of Modern Violence." College Literature, accepted.

(c) Chapters in peer-reviewed volumes

1. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2020. "A Good Coffin: The War Poetry of Gerardo Mena." In Different Drummers: Military Discipline and Its Discontents. Edited by Tad Tuleja. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado. 165-176.

(d) Non-referred publications

1. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2013. "Call me Don Draper: 'Mad Man begets Mad Men' – Moby Dick on Madison Avenue.'" Salon.com.

2. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2018. Diamond Purse: A Novella [In Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Bella Luna Publishing.

3. Ron Ben-Tovim, 2021. Pekham: A Novel [In Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Tanjir Publishing (accepted).

2004 - 2007
B.A. (Magna cum Laude)
Tel Aviv University, English and American Studies & Philosophy

2008 - 2010
M.A. (Summa cum Laude)
Tel Aviv University, English and American Studies
Advisor: Professor Karen Alkalay-Gut; part of the direct PhD track

2011
Cornell University, School of Criticism and Theory

2010 - 2015
Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University, School of Cultural Studies
Advisor: Professor Karen Alkalay-Gut
Title of Dissertation: War and the Undoing of Language