Dr. Chen Edelsburg

Research Fellow

Scientific biography: I am a scholar of Comparative Literature working on American and Hebrew literature and the intersections between them, with a special interest in feminist studies and narrative theory. I am currently completing a book titled Dear (Female) Reader: The Gendered Address in Hebrew Literature. My next project in the field of psycho-Marxist thought is tentatively titled Interpellation and Narration: Trauma, Psychosis, Hysteria, and the Postmodern Turn.

Fields of research: Feminist and queer narratology, disability studies, medical humanities, psycho-Marxist thought, postmodernism.

Publications:
1. Edelsburg, Chen. “An Overly Successful Interpellation: The Case of Orly Castel-Bloom,” Ot: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol 8, 2018, pp. 153-180 (Hebrew)
2. Edelsburg, Chen. “Second-Person Address and the Failure of Reading: A Feminist Reading of How Do You Do, Dolores by Yoel Hoffmann,” Hebrew Studies, Vol 60, 2019, pp. 454–435
3. Edelsburg, Chen and Eyal Bassan. “The Way We Read Here and Now: An Introduction,” Ot: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol 9, 2019, pp. 5-16 (Hebrew)
4. Edelsburg, Chen. “Restorative and Traumatic Interpellations: The Second-Person Address in Salinger’s Works,” Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol 51.1, 2021, pp. 26-53
5. Edelsburg, Chen. “When the Pen is Implanted in the Body – the Female author as Cyborg”, In, A. Shalev and Y. Ataria, eds., The Post- Human Era: From Fantasy to Eternal Life to Existential Panic, Pardes Publishing House, Haifa, 2016, 251-261 (Hebrew).