McGill University Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); M.A. (Georgetown University); Ph.D. (Princeton U); Associate Professor
Literary Theory, History of the Novel, and Comparative Literature (esp. Nineteenth-Century English literature, Twentieth-Century Latin American literature and Contemporary Israeli literature)
Brandeis, Cornell, and Princeton.
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2006-09)
- FQRSC Programme pour l'établissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs (2006-2009)
- Lady Davis Fellowship (2008-09)
- W. and F. Hewlett Foundation, "Strengthening Interdisciplinary Connections" (2001)
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-01)
- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (2007, 2000)
Books
Sephardism: Spanish/Jewish History & the Modern Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2012)
http://www.amazon.com/Sephardism-Spanish-Literary-Imagination-Stanford/dp/0804777462#_
Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2003)
http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9780313320071
Articles
“The Life and Times of the Picaro-Converso from Spain to Latin America,” in Sephardism. Stanford UP, 2012.143-166.
“Rebecca Goldstein’s Spinoza,” in Sephardism. Stanford UP, 2012. 275-83.
A Taste of Sepharad from the Mexican Suburbs: Rosa Nissán's Stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca,” in Sephardic Identity in the Americas. Eds. Bejarano and Aizenberg. Syracuse UP, 2012.
“Reading Agnon’s In the Prime of Her Life in Light of Freud’s Dora,” Jewish Quarterly Review 98.1 (2008): 29-40.
“The ‘Double Triangle’ Paradigm in Hebrew Fiction: National Redemption in Bi-generational Love Triangles from Agnon to Oz.” Prooftexts 26 (2006): 309-343.
“Ethics and Aesthetics of Memory in Contemporary Mizrahi Literature.” The Journal of Israeli History 20.1 (2001): 49-66.
“Little Dorrit’s Story.” The Dickensian No. 446 V. 94 Part 3 (1998): 184-94.
“The Rhetoric of Silence in Conrad’s Lord Jim.” Anatomies of Silence. Eds. Cacoullos and Sifianou. Athens: U of Athens, 1998. 98-105.
“Storytelling in Like Water for Chocolate.” The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995. Ed. Kristine Ibsen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 123-131.
“The Play within the Play as a Model of Fictionality.” Mundos de Ficción II. 49-55.
Recent Book Reviews:
“Dan Miron, From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. Forthcoming.
“Deborah Starr and Sasson Somekh, Eds. “Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff,” Sephardic Horizons 2.1 (Winter 2012): http://sephardichorizons.org/Volume2/Issue1/halevi-wise.html
“Yael Feldman, Glory and Agony: Isaac’s Sacrifice and National Narrative,” Shofar 30.4 (2012). Print version forthcoming. Online version: http://www.case.edu/artsci/jdst/reviews/Glory.htm
“Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination.” Criticism 42.4 (2000): 484-87.
Beginning a comprehensive study of contemporary Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua; continuing a keen interest in representations/manipulations of history in the modern literary imagination.