alumni

Oren Yirmiya

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...

Alexander Ullman

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.

Elya (Zisl) Piazza

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...

2024 Alumni

Alexander UllmanAlexander Ullman

Alexander Ullman grauated with a PhD in English 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...

2008 Alumni

Julia Watts Belser

Dissertation Title: Between the Human and the Holy: The Construction of Talmudic Theology in Massekhet Ta’anit

Website: http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/jwb84/?PageTemplateID=366

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Theology, Georgetown University.

Eliyahu Stern

Advisor: Daniel Boyarin

Dissertation Title: Elijah of...

2004 Alumni

Rachel Havrelock

Advisor: Daniel Boyarin

Dissertation Title: “The Jordan River: Crossing a Biblical Boundary”

Website: http://engl.uic.edu/english/directory/faculty/rachel-havrelock

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of English and Jewish Studies Program, University of Illinois at Chicago

2011 Alumni

Zehavit Stern

Advisor: Robert Alter

Dissertation Title: Eastern European Jewish Culture and the Re-imagination of Folk Performance

Current Position: University Research Lecturer, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

2006 Alumni

Henry Morrison Millstein

Dissertation Title: “Embodying Empire: Rabbinic and Early Christian Representations of Roman Power”

2001 Alumni

Shachar Mordechai Pinsker

Dissertation Title: “Old Wine In New Flasks”: Rabbinic Intertexts and the Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction

2021 Alumni

Jenna Stover KempJenna Stover Kemp

Jenna Stover-Kemp works in the area of Hebrew Bible and is interested in cultural memory and intertextuality. Her dissertation traces three case studies from different literary genres and analyzes how relatively late biblical authors work with the memory of earlier text. Principally, she is interested in how forgetting is an aide to...