Dr. Keren Omry

Senior Lecturer – Department Chair  

Office: Floor 16, Room 1607, Eshkol Tower. 

Office hours: By appointment only

Phone: 04-8288307

Internal: 8307

Email: komry@research.haifa.ac.il

Fields of research & instruction (keywords): Science Fiction; 20-21st century American Studies; African-American Literature; Jazz Literature.

Select Publications:

Book:

• • Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature.  Continuum Press, 2008.

Article/s:

• • “A Cyborg Performance: Gender and Genre in Octavia Butler.”  Praxis [Phoebe]: Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques, 2005: 45-60
  • “Israeli SF 101”, SFRA Review, Vol. 306, 2013: 8-11.
  • “Bodies and Digital Discontinuities: Posthumanism, Fractals, and Popular Music in the Digital Age,” Science Fiction Studies; Vol. 128, 2016: 104-22.
  • “Ozeki’s Cat: Historical Responsibility and the Matter of Bodies in A Tale for the Time Being.” CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 19, 2019: 117-137.
  • “ ‘Something so deeply earned’: Sympathy and Metonymy in William Gibson’s The Peripheral.” Partial Answers, Vol. 18, 2020: 335-48.

In Progress:

• • Slipping Sideways: Alternate History and the Contemporary

Personal website: https://haifa.academia.edu/KerenOmry