Chloë (Zisl) Piazza is a PhD student in the Near Eastern Studies Department, with Designated Emphases in Jewish Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Their areas of study are Talmud and Yiddish literature, which they approach through a queer theoretical lens. Their research focuses on depictions of racial, sexual, and social difference in Jewish literature as a mechanism for both exploitation and solidarity in service of clarifying a Jewish self-concept. They received a 2018 Translation Fellowship from the Yiddish Book Center for a translation of Di Agune, an early Yiddish play by...
Alex Ullman is a PhD student in the English department studying 20th century global Anglophone literature. He is particularly interested in how sound and ethnicity meet in 20th century literature of the African and Jewish diasporas, specifically through the uses of dialect, translation, and music. He has also written on Jewish writing ranging from medieval piyutim to the work of contemporary Israeli author David Grossman.
B.A. Literature and Sociology, Tel-Aviv University (magna cum laude, 2014)
M.A. Hebrew Literature, Tal-Aviv University (summa cum laude, 2016)
Ph.D. Student in Near Eastern Studies Department
Oren’s work is focused on 20th century and contemporary Hebrew literature and culture in Mandatory Palestine and the state of Israel. Within this frame, Oren’s work engages with question of agency, personal and national, and its relation to the enjoyment of reading; questions regarding the use of lyrical...
