Twentieth Century American Prose Fiction; Comparative Modernisms (Anglo-American, Brazilian, Israeli); Psychoanalysis; Attention and Sound Studies; Translation Studies; The Gothic and Posthumanism

Articles and chapters

“William Faulkner, Cleanth Brooks, and the Living-Dead Reader of New Critical Theory,” Arizona Quarterly, 75.1 (2019): 49-83.

“I Dressed His Wounds, God Cured Him: Freud’s Evenly Suspended Attention,” in Violent Origins: Freud, Moses, Religion, Berkeley Forum of the Humanities Series, eds. Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018).

“‘Sisterless’: Identity Politics and Queer Narration in Shimon Adaf’s Aviva-No,” forthcoming from CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, special issue on “Poetry in Israel: Forging Identity,” 2019.

“Clarice Lispector and the Jewish Tradition of Mistakes,” forthcoming in After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Adriana X. Jacobs and Claire Williams, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures Series (Cambridge: Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2020).

Authored Critical Introductions

“The Poetics of Trash,” Critical Introduction to my translation of Derekh Ha-Yisurim Shel Ha-Guf [The Via Crucis of the Body] by Clarice Lispector (Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me’uchad/Sifriat Po’alim, 2016), 85-104 [Hebrew].

“To Catch the Thing: A Distracted Reading in Close to the Wild Heart,” Critical Introduction to the Hebrew translation of Karov el ha-Lev ha-Pir’i [Near to the Wild Heart] by Clarice Lispector, trans. Miriam Tivon (Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me’uchad/Sifriat Po’alim, 2018) [Hebrew].

“‘This Book is a Silence’: Lispector’s Anti-Star Novella,” Critical Introduction to She’at ha-Kokhav [The Hour of the Star] by Clarice Lispector, trans. Miryam Tivon (Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbutz ha-Me’uchad/Sifriat Po’alim, forthcoming 2019) [Hebrew].

BA 2005 - 2008
Tel Aviv University, Double Major in Comparative Literature & Psychology

MA 2008 - 2012
Tel Aviv University, Department of Literature Name of advisor: Prof. Iris Milner Title of thesis: The Melancholic Language of Clarice Lispector

PhD 2012 - 2018
University of California Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature, Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies
Name of advisor: Prof. Chana Kronfeld
Title of dissertation: New Criticism Int.: The Close Reader in the U.S., Brazil and Israel