Mandel B. Miriam, English Department


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Miriam B. Mandel was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She
received her B.A. from Harpur College, SUNY (l963), and her M.A.
from Ohio State University (l966). She has taught in the English
Departments of Douglass College, New Brunswick, N. J. (1966-
1972); Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (1972-1979);
and Tel Aviv University (1979-present).

She is a member of the Hemingway Society, the Modern
Language Association (MLA), the Australasian Universities
Language and Literature Association (AULLA), the F. Scott
Fitzgerald Society, the Hemingway Foundation (Oak Park), the
Israel Association for American Studies, and the Friends of the
Ernest Hemingway Collection (Boston).

For the last few years, Mandel has been working on a three-
volume encyclopedia, annotating the people, animals, and cultural
artifacts which appear or are mentioned in the work of Ernest
Hemingway. The first volume, Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the
Fictions (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995), focuses on
Hemingway's nine novels. The second volume, to be published by
the same press, annotates Hemingway's nonfiction. The third
volume will tackle the short fiction.

In addition to her work on Hemingway, Mandel has translated
critical essays on the fiction of Ramon del Valle-Inclan (from
Spanish to English) and has published essays on Jane Austen,
Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, A. E. Housman, Katherine
Mansfield, and the teaching of composition. She has also read
papers before a variety of learned societies in Australia,
Canada, France, Spain, and the United States.

She is proud to serve on the Editorial Board of The
Hemingway Review (1992-present).

Major publications (books and major articles):


Books:

Mandel, Miriam B. The British and American Novel in the 20th
Century: Critical Explication for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The
Great Gatsby (Tel Aviv: Everyman's University Press, l985,
107 pp., softcover).
---. Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press/Grolier, 1995, 593 pp., hardcover).

Articles and Chapters in Books (for the last ten years only):

Mandel, Miriam B. "Housman's 'Loveliest of Trees'." Housman
Society Journal 14 (1988): 66-68.

---. "Names in The Great Gatsby." NMAL: Notes on Modern American
Literature 10.2 (1989): Item 7.

---. "Significant Patterns of Color and Animal Imagery in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Neophilologus 73.2 (1989):
305-317.

---. "Reductive Imagery in 'Miss Brill'." Studies in Short
Fiction 26.4 (1989): 473-477.

---. "Ambiguous Texts in Teaching the Reading of Literature."
Chapter 15 in Literature and Life: Making Connections in the
Classroom. Ed. Patricia Phelan. Urbana: NCTE, 1990.

---. "Fiction and Fiction-Making: Emma and the Gypsies."
Persuasions (the Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North
America) 13 (1991): 100-103.

---. "Reading the Names Right." Chapter 12 in Hemingway
Repossessed. Ed. Kenneth Rosen. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

---. "Ferguson and Lesbian Love: Unspoken Sub-Plots in A Farewell
to Arms." The Hemingway Review 14.1 (1994): 18-24.

---. "A Reader's Guide to Pilar's Bullfighters: Untold Histories
in For Whom the Bell Tolls." The Hemingway Review l5.1
(1995): 94-104.

---. "Headgear and Horses: Authorial Presence in A Farewell to
Arms." The International Fiction Review 22.1-2 (1995): 61-
66.

---. "Across the River and Into the Trees: Reading the Brusadelli
Stories." Journal of Modern Literature 19.2 (1995): 334-345.

---. "An Index to Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon."
Resources for American Literary Study 23.1 (1997): 95-141.


Teaches in the following subject areas:


Composition Program

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


First Semester: on leave
Second Semester: Composition II, Proseminar

Areas of current research interest:


The life, times, fiction and nonfiction of Ernest Hemingway

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone,fax,etc.):


Office:
118 Rosenberg Building
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Israel

Telephone: 972-3-640-9683 or 640-9284

Fax: 972-3-640-7312

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