I'm a literary scholar specializing in Modern Hebrew literature. My main areas of interest include Hebrew modernism, in itself and as related to European culture; The formation of the Hebrew canon and reception theories; The historiography of Hebrew literature; Modern Hebrew poetry, particularly the oeuvres of Lea Goldberg and Dahlia Ravikovitch; Digital Humanities and Archival Studies.
I also serve as the head of the the program of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture.
Photographed by Isaiah Fainberg at Tolaat Sfarim bookstore in Tel Aviv
Curriculum Vitae
ORCID: 0000-0002-3644-2754
EDUCATION
B.A. | Tel Aviv University | Departments of Hebrew Literature and French, 2004 (Magna cum laude).
M.A. | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Department of Hebrew Literature (magna cum laude)
Thesis: “Representations of Israeli Landscape in Lea Goldberg’s Poetry as an Arena of Literary and Ideological Conventions” (approved 2006) | Advisor: Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld.
Ph.D. | Tel Aviv University | Department of Literature
Dissertation: “Dahlia Ravikovitch: In Life and in Literature” (Approved 2014) | Advisor: Prof. Michael Gluzman.
SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE AT HUJI
2022–present | Graduate Students Consultant, Department of Hebrew Literature
2022–present | Member, Academic Committee of the Mandel Scholion Research Center
2022–present | Member, the Committee of the Leonid Nevzlin Center for Russian and East European Jewry
2022–present | Member, the Committee of the Center for Literary Studies
2022–present | Member, Board of the Authority for Research Students (Humanities and Social sciences)
PAST ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013–14 | The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Postdoctoral Fellow.
2014–15 | Da’at ha-Makom Center for Research Excellence (I-Core), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Postdoctoral Fellow.
2014–15 | Israel Institute, Washington, D.C. | Postdoctoral Fellow.
2014–15 | Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University | Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow.
2015–16 | Department of Comparative Literature, DLCL/HS, Stanford University | Lecturer.
2016 | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania | Ruth Meltzer Fellow.
2017 | Laura Schwarz-Kipp Center for Hebrew Literature and Culture, Tel Aviv University | Visiting Scholar.
2017–present | Poetic Media Lab, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), Stanford University | Research Associate and Collaborator.
2017–18 (declined) | Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Postdoctoral Fellow.
2017–18 (declined) | The Open University of Israel | Postdoctoral Fellow.
2017–20 | Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Mandel Postdoctoral Fellow.
2021-2024 | Azrieli Fellows Program | Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellow.
2021 | Israel Academy's Forum of Young Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences, led by Prof. Dan Miron | Fellow.
AWARDS
Extramural
1994 | Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for Best First Scholarly Book
For my book, Seven Essays on The Little Prince in Light of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Oeuvre.
2012–13 | Dan David Scholarship for Young Researchers,
“For outstanding achievements and future promise in the field of History/Biography.”
2014 | Bahat Prize for the 2014 Best Original Scholarly Book Manuscript in Hebrew
For my book, Dahlia Ravikovitch: In Life and in Literature.
2015 | Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Excellence in Editing.
2019 | The Levi Eshkol Prime Minister's Creativity Prize for Hebrew Authors.
2022 | The Paul Avraham Alsberg Prize, granted by the Association of Israeli Archivists (AIA)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005 | Academic Excellence Award, Department of Hebrew Literature.
2006 | Pesach Ginsburg Academic Excellence Award, Department of Hebrew Literature.
Tel Aviv University
2009 | Researcher’s Podium Award, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies.
2012 | Dov Sadan Foundation Prize for Excellence in Research of Modern Hebrew Literature.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2008–2021 | Editor, Hakibbutz Hame'uchad-Sifriat Poalim Publishing House.
2014–2017 | Executive Editor, Dibur Literary Journal, peer-reviewed journal of Hebrew, Jewish, and comparative literature, Stanford University.
2017–2021 | Member, Board of Editors, Hakibbutz Hame'uchad-Sifriat Poalim Publishing House.
2018–present | Member, Massa Series on Hebrew Essays, Bar-Ilan University Press.
2020–present | Member, The Van Leer Institute Editorial Board.
2022–present | Member, Mossad Bialik – The Bialik Institute, Literature Committee.