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EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, B.A. magna cum laude, Honors in
English, 1970
Columbia University, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. with distinction, English
and Comparative Literature, 1977
Post-doctoral study--Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Language and Literature
Program, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1979.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Columbia University, Preceptor, 1974-76
Lafayette College, Assistant Professor, 1976-81
Lafayette College, Associate Professor, 1981-84
Tel Aviv University, Visiting Professor, 1982-83
Tel Aviv University, Senior Lecturer, 1984-1994
Tel Aviv University, Associate Professor,1994-present (Department
Head, 1985-1990; 1993-to present)
Advisory Board, James Joyce Institute, Zurich, 1993-present
Executive Board, Porter Institute of Poetics and Semiotics, Tel
Aviv University, 1992-present
Executive Board, Shirley and Leslie Porter School for Cultural
Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1990-present
Chairperson, Tel Aviv University Women's Studies Forum, 1993-1996
Advisory Board of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History,
1981-present
Advisory Board of Journal of Modern Literature, 1986-present
Books:
City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Edited Books:
What is Jewish Literature? Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1994.
New Essays on Call It Sleep. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1996.
The Sheila Carmel Lectures in English Literature. Tel Aviv University,
1995.
Dramas of Desire: Proceedings of the International Comparative
Literature Conference. With Ziva Ben-Porat Tokyo: Tokyo University
Press, 1995.
Articles:
"Form as Fate: Everyman as Artist in Virginia Woolf's
To The Lighthouse" Bucknell Review, Fall, 1976. Published
in book form in Twentieth Century Poetry, Fiction.Theory, Associated
University Press, 1977.
"The Modern Jewish Novel and the City: Kafka, Roth, and Oz"
Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 24, Spring 1978. Special issue on
the City and the Novel.
"The Stranger Case of The Turn of the Screw and Heart of
Darkness," Studies in Short Fiction, Vol 16, Fall 1979.
"Jewish and Human Survival on Bellow's Planet,"Modern
Fiction Studies, Vol. 25, Spring 1979. Special issue on Saul Bellow.
Reprinted in Saul Bellow: A Symposium on the Jewish Heritage,
edited by Vinoda and Shiv Kumar, Nachson Books, Warangal, India,
1983.
"Voices of Ambivalence in Sholem Aleichem's Monologues,"
Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Vol. 1, May
1981.
"The Artist Tales of Philip Roth," Prooftexts: A Journal
of Jewish Literary History, Vol. 3, September 1983.
"The Thematics of Interpretation in Henry James's Artist
Tales," The Henry James Review, Vol. 5, Spring 1984.
"The Curse of Marginality: Colonialism in Naipaul's Guerillas,"
Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 30, Fall 1984. Special issue on Naipaul.
"The Ethics of Narration in D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel"
The Journal of Narrative Technique, Winter, 1985.
"The Literary Orphan as National Hero: Huck and Pip"
Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, AMS Press,
1986. Reprinted in Huck Finn:Major Literary Characters,edited
by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1990.
"The City as Metaphor in American Literature" in The
American Experience edited by Arnon Gutfeld. Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan,
1986. [in Hebrew--"Ha'ir k'Metafora b'Sifrut Amerikanit]
"Orphaned Fictions: Hindsight in Isaac Bashevis Singer's
The Family Moskat and Shosha, in Recovering the Canon: Essays
on Isaac Bashevis Singer, ed. David Neal Miller. Leiden: Brill,
1986.
"From Newark to Prague: Roth's Place in the American-Jewish
Literary Tradition,"in Reading Philip Roth, eds. Asher Milbauer
and Donald Watson. London: Macmillan, 1988. Reprinted in What
is Jewish Literature? edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher. Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society,
1994.
"Reading Joyce's City: Public Space, Self, and Gender in
Dubliners," in James Joyce: The Augmented Ninth, ed. Bernard
Benstock. Syracuse University Press, 1988.
"Between Mother Tongue and Native Language: Multilingualism
and Multiculturalism in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep" Prooftexts:
A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Spring, 1990. Reprinted
as the Afterword to Call It Sleep. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
1991.
"Woman in the Plot: Henry James's Aspern Papers," Hebrew
University Studies in Literature and the Arts Vol. 18, 1990. Special
issue on Woman and American Ideology: Continuities and Contradictions
in the Definition of the National Character
"The Counterlife: Israeli Perspectives on American Literature,"
in As Others Read Us: International Perspectives on American Literature,
ed. Huck Gutman. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press,
1991.
"Final Curtain on the War: Figure and Ground in Virginia
Woolf's Between the Acts," Style, Vol. 28, No.2, Summer,
1994.
"If This Is Liberty, It Must be Paris: Landmarks and Home
in The Ambassadors,"Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian
Imagination, eds. Murray Baumgarten and H.M. Daleski. New York:
New York, AMS Press, 1995.
"The 'Other' in a Poetics of Urbanism," Powers of Narration,eds.
Gerald Gillespie and Andre Lorant. Proceedings of the XIII Congress
of the International Comparative Literature Association. Tokyo:
Tokyo University Press, 1995.
"I must be put somewheres, dear boy":Dickens, Twain,
and National Geographies," in Rereading Novels/Re- thinking
Presuppositions, eds. S. Barzilai, S. Rimmon- Kenan, L. Toker.
Brill, 1997.
"Who's he when he's at home?": Saul Bellow's Translations,"
New Essays on Seize the Day, ed. Michael Kramer. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
"Henry Roth," in Contemporary Jewish-American Writers:
A Sourcebook, eds. Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub. Westport,CT:
Greenwood Press, forthcoming 1997.
"Language as Homeland in Jewish-American Literature,"
Insider/Outsider:American Jews and Multiculturalism, eds. David
Biale, Michael Galshinsky, Susannah Heschel. University of California
Press, forthcoming 1997.
"The Languages of Memory: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl,"
Literatures of What is Now the United States, ed. Werner Sollors.
Forthcoming.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Entry on Amos Oz reprinted from earlier essay, Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Vol. 11, 1979.
Entry on Saul Bellow, The Biographical Dictionary of the Nobel
Prize Laureates in Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.
Entry on Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Biographical Dictionary of
the Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature. New York: Garland Publishing,
1990.
Selected Reviews:
Review of The Uses of Literature, Harvard English Studies
4, ed. Monroe Engel,in The American Scholar, Vol 43, No. 4, Fall
1974.
Review of The Venture of Form in The Novels of Virginia Woolf
by Jean Alexander in Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 4, No.5,
1975.
Review of the Best of Sholem Aleichem edited by Irving Howe and
Ruth Wisse, in Notre Dame English Journal: A Journal of Religion
in Literature, Vol. 11, no.2,1979.
Review of On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic
by Roger Sale and the City as Catalyst by D. Festa-McCormick,
Modern Fiction Studies, Summer, 1980.
Review of The Image of the City in Modern Literature by Burton
Pike and the Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism
by Allon White, in Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 1982.
Review of Portrait of an American City: The Novelists' New York
by Joan Zlotnick in Modern Fiction Studies, Summer, 1984.
Review of Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction,by
Esther Fuchs in Journal of Modern Literature Summer, 1988.
Review of Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical
Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources, edited by Lewis Fried in
Studies in Contemporary Jewry (Oxford University Press), 1990.
Selected Presentations
"The Artist as Hero in Virginia Woolf'sMDBO To The Lighthouse",
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, April,1974.
"The Stranger Case of The Turn of the Screw and Heart of
Darkness," Conrad Seminar. Modern Language Association Conference,
San Francisco, December 1975.
"Virginia Woolf's The Waves," Session on The Novel,
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, University of
Vermont, March, 1976.
"The City and the Modern Jewish Novel," Conference On
Jews, Cities, and Modernist Culture, Columbia University, April,
1980.
"Postmodernism and the Arts," Israel Association of
American Studies, Neveh Ilan, June, 1983.
"Yesterday's Metaphors," Conference on Women and Literature,"
Tel Aviv University English Department, December, 1983.
"Reading Joyce's City: Women in Dubliners," International
James Joyce Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany, June, 1984.
"The Literary Orphan as National Hero: Great Expectations
and Huckleberry Finn", University of California, Santa Cruz
and Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, August
1984.
"Artistic Balance in Huckleberry Finn," Israel Association
of American Studies, June, 1985.
"Joyce and the Modernist/Postmodernist Self" James Joyce
International Symposium, Copenhagen, June, 1986.
"Figure and Ground in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts,"
Modern Language Association, New York, 1986
"The Road Not Taken: Philip Roth and the Jewish-American
Literary Canon," Conference on the Dynamics of Literary Canons,
School for Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University, May, 1988.
"Female Typology in Henry James's Artist Tales," Conference
on Women and Literature, Tel Aviv University, April, 1989.
"Multilingualism in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep," Modern
Language Association, Washington, 1989.
"Representations of the 'Other' in a Poetics of Urban Narrative,"
International Comparative Literature Association, Tokyo, August,
1991.
"If This is Liberty, It Must Be Paris: Leaving Home in James's
House of Fiction," Conference on Homes and Homelessness in
the Victorian Imagination, The Center for Literary Studies at
the Hebrew University, and the Dickens Project, Santa Cruz, June,1992.
"Gallant Venal City: Urban Setting in Portrait of the Artist,"
International James Joyce Symposium,
Dublin, June, 1992.
"I must be put somewheres, dear boy":Dickens, Twain,
and National Geographies," Rereading Novels/Rethinking Critical
Presuppositions Conference, Hebrew Univer- sity, Jerusalem, June,
1994.
"Facing The Facts: Representation and Representativeness
in Roth's Modernist Autobiography," Conference on Autobiography,
Testimony and Confession, Tel Aviv University, November, 1994.
"The Languages of Memory:Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl,"
Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative, Salt Lake
City, Utah, April, 1995. Also at the University of California,
Los Angeles; the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
"What is Jewish Literature?" Association of Jewish Studies
Conference, Boston, December, 1995.
"Warsaw, Prague, Jerusalem: The Languages of 'Home' in Jewish-American
Literature," European Association of American Studies Conference,
Warsaw, March 1996.
John E. Sawyer Fellow, Longfellow Institute, Harvard University,
1996.
Harvard University Research Fellow, 1990-1991
Fellow of the Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary British Writing,
1989
Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar in American Literature, 1985
Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, Tel Aviv University,
1982-83
Thomas Roy and Lura Forest Jones Faculty Lecturer,Lafayette College
(Superior Teaching Award), 1981-82.
Fellow of the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies
of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1978-79
Lafayette College Summer Research Grant, 1979
Kent Fellow, Danforth Foundation, 1973-75
Faculty Fellow, Columbia University, 1970-73
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1970-71
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania, 1970
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