Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1981, M.Phil. Major: Modern Hebrew Literature. Minor: Russian Fiction and Theory, Columbia University, 1980, M.A., Medieval Hebrew Literature, Hebrew College, Brookline, 1976, B.A. Hebrew Literature and Language; English Lit, Tel Aviv University, 1967.

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Research Interests:

Hebrew and Comparative Literature: Bible to Modern; literary theory; gender and cultural studies; psychoanalytic criticism.

Affiliations:

American Comparative Literature Association; International Comparative Literature Association; Board Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, 1995-present; organizer and Chair, Modern Language Association, 1992-1996; Board Member, Prooftexts, 1985-present; Board Member, Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies,1994-present; Board Member, Program Committee, Association for Jewish Studies, 1983-1986, 1989-1992.

Fellowships/Honors:

Littauer Foundation Grant (1997, 2001); NYU Research Challenge Award (1997-8, 2002). The Friedman Award for Hebrew Literature Scholarship (2003); Coolidge Fellowship for Crosscurrent Summer Research Colloquium (2006); Rabbi Sally Priesand Visiting Professor of Jewish Women’s Studies at HUC-JIR, Cincinnati. The Koerner Fellowship, Oxford Center for Hebrew Culture, 1996; National Endowment for Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1989; Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Research Abroad, 1984-1985; American Comparative Literature Association Travel Grant, 1983.

Selected Works:

“On the Cusp of Christianity: Virgin Sacrifice in Pseudo-Philo and Amos Oz.” JQR, 97: 3 (Summer 2007): 379-415.

“From Essentialism to Constructivism? The Gender of Peace and War in Gilman, Woolf, Freud.” Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and History of Ideas, January 2004, pp. 113-145.

No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women's Fiction. Gender and Society Series, Columbia U.P., 1999 [was a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist]

Lelo Heder Mishelahen: Migdar uLeumiut biYetziratan shel Sofrot Israeliot. Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 2002. (HEB) [won the Friedman Memorial Prize for Hebrew Literature, 2003]

Forthcoming: From Jesus to Oedipus: Rewriting “Isaac” in Tel Aviv.

Postcolonial Memory, Postmodern Intertextuality: Anton Shammas’s ARABESQUES Revisited. Publication of Modern Language Association. 114:3. 373-389. May 1999.

Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature, coed. Modern Language Association Publications. 1989.

Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilingualism. Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press. 1986.

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