Dr. Miryam Sivan

Teaching Fellow

Office: Floor 2, Room 236, Student Building.

Office hours: Mondays 13:00 – 14:00, and by appointment.

Email: msivan33@gmail.com

Scientific biography: Originally from New York City, Miryam Sivan teaches literature and writing at the University of Haifa in Israel. She has published articles on the 20th century American writers Cynthia Ozick, James Baldwin, and Jane Bowles, and on numerous Israeli writers. Her book-length study on Cynthia Ozick, Belonging Too Well: Portraits of Identity in Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction was published by SUNY Press in 2009.  Sivan is the author of the short fiction collection, SNAFU and Other Stories  (2014) and a novel, Make it Concrete, (2019).

Fields of Research & Instruction (keywords): American Literature; Shoah Literature; Academic writing; Creative writing.

Selected Publications:

Book/s:

• Make it Concrete, a novel, 2019
• SNAFU & Other Stories, 2015

Article/s:

• “Jane Bowles as Proto-Beat:  Two Serious Ladies on the Cusp of Two (or More) Movements.” Out of the Shadows: Women and the Beat Generation. Norway: Portal Forlag, 2015.
• “Stoning the Messenger: Yehiel Dinur’s House of Dolls and Piepel.” Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women in the Holocaust, Ed. Rochelle Saidel and Sonja Hedgepeth. Syracuse UP, November 2010. Book was Finalist, National Jewish Book Award, 2011.

Personal website: https://www.miryamsivan.com/