SELI 2022

Conference Program

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9:30 Gathering

10:00 Welcome remarks 

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10:15-11:00 Keynote Address (Rabin Auditorium)

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"Reflections on an Intellectual Journey"

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

​Chair: Ayelet Ben-Yishai (University of Haifa)

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11:00-11:30 Coffee break

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11:30-12:45 - Concurrent Panels 1

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1a: Literary Pasts (room 2001)

Zachary Garber (University of Oxford)

“In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians:” Mock Histories and Chronicle Fictions of the Mid-Eighteenth Century

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Shachar Livne (Hebrew University)

Metatextual Strategies in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

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Ruben Weiss (Hebrew University)

Last of the Romans: Boffin, Belisarius, and the Collapse of Historical Distance in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

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Chair: Jenn Lewin (University of Haifa)

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1b:  Voice and Identity (room 1001)

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Tamar Gerstenhaber (Tel Aviv University)

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“Symphony of Sorrow”: Femininity and the Cry in Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis

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Shana Rosenblatt Mauer (Herzog College /The Schechter Institute)

Russian-American Jewish Writers: Resistance to (Self)Imposed Identities

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Lonnie Monka (Hebrew University)

Orality in David Antin’s Talk-Poetry Texts

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Chair: Danny Luzon (University of Haifa)

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1c: Lines and Fractures (room 3001)

Marcela Sulak (Bar-Ilan University)

Here the Sentence Will Be Respected

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Ron Ben-Tovim (Ben-Gurion University)

Strange Meetings: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements in World War I Writing

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Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University)

Seductive Readings: John Donne’s “The Flea” and Cognitive Literary Studies

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Chair: Nir Evron (Tel Aviv University)

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12:45-14:00 Lunch

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14:00-15:15 Concurrent Panels 2

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2a: Into the Archive (room 3001)

Barbara Hochman (Ben-Gurion University)

Slavery in the Archive: Mundane Documents and the Wayward Reader

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Amy Garnai (Kibbutzim College of Education)

Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama and the Challenges of Archival Research During a Pandemic

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Yael Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)

Looking for Nobody: Biography and the Forgotten Woman Writer

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Chair: Shachar Livne (Hebrew University)

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2b: Influence (room 1001)

Dara Barnat (Tel Aviv University)

“I had read Whitman, but I don’t particularly care for him”: Charles Reznikoff, Allen Ginsberg, and Walt Whitman

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Ari Lieberman (University of Georgia)

Vladimir Nabokov, Author of the Quijote: Pnin and the Ethics of Laughter

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Edward Evans (Bar-Ilan University)

Hamlet’s “the Mirror up to Nature” as the Self-Conscious Revelation of Theatrical Conscience

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​Chair: Karin Berkman (Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University)

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​2c: Liberalism and Its Discontents (room 2001)

Tammy Amiel Houser (Open University)

Contemporary Fiction in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Case of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

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David Hadar (Beit Berl)

Living for Work and the Rise of Autofiction: A Reading of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?

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Tzachi Zamir (Hebrew University)

Literature as Social Critique: Parenting, Neoliberalism, and Lynn Steger Strong’s Want

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Chair:  Galia Benziman (Hebrew University)

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15:15-15:30 Coffee break

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15:30-16:45 Concurrent Panels 3

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3a: Literary Attentions (room 2001)

Taylor Johnston-Levy (Ben-Gurion University)

Attention and the Aesthetics of Microaggression in Citizen and The White Album

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Naomi Mandel (Hebrew University)

The Hunger Games as Video Game

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Yael Levin (Hebrew University)

Gendered Attention and the North Irish Troubles: Anna Burns’s Milkman

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Chair: Keren Omry (University of Haifa)

  

3b:  African Literary Laureates (room 3001)

Karin Berkman (Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University)

 “Out of Africa:” Wole Soyinka and the Nobel Prize in Africa

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Reut Barzilai (University of Haifa) and Ruth S. Wenske (Hebrew University)

Signifying on Shakespeare: Intertextuality in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Heart (2017)

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Louise Bethlehem (Hebrew University) 

On Bad Feeling: Malaise, Melancholy and the Moribund Jewish Body in Damon Galgut’s The Promise (2021)

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Chair: Yosefa Raz (University of Haifa) 

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17:00-17:45 Concluding Roundtable:

Adventures in Book-Writing (Rabin Auditorium)

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Presenters: Eitan Bar-Yosef (Ben-Gurion University), Ayelet Ben-Yishai (University of Haifa), Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (University of Haifa), Nir Evron (Tel Aviv University), Susan Lanser (Brandeis University), Irene Tucker (University of California, Irvine)

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Chair: Milette Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

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17:45-18:30 Farewell wine reception

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