Prof. Ayelet Ben-Yishai

Associate Professor – PhD Committee Chair 

Office: Floor 16, Room 1602b, Eshkol Tower.

Office hours: Sundays, 13:30-15:00, & by appointment.

Phone: 04-8240068

Internal: 2068

Email: abenyishai@research.haifa.ac.il

Scientific biography: My main research and teaching interests are in postcolonial and Victorian literature. A comparatist by training, I write on the history and theory of the novel, on realism and fictionality, on the intersections of law and literature, and on the Indian novel in English. I recently completed my book on the literary and cultural history of the Indian Emergency, titled, Genres of Emergency: Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English. My teaching, my research, and my way of being in the world often overlap, allowing me to think and write about the political and discursive problems of complicity.

Fields of Research & Instruction (keywords): 19C British Literature; Postcolonial and Global South Studies; Indian Literature and Culture; Comparative Literature; Literary Theory..

Selected Publications:

Book/s:

• • Genres of Emergency: Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English Oxford University Press, 2023 (Two editions: Oxford UK and Oxford India).
  • Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction Oxford University Press, 2013. (208 pp.)

 Article/s:

• • “Through English, Densely: Partitions, Complicity, and the Anglophone Classroom” Representations 155.1(2021) 139-152.
  • “Realism as Such” Victorian Literature and Culture 46.3-4 (2018) 831-835.

     

  • “Surface Reading: Theory Without Criticism?” Theoria U’vikoret 50.1(2018) 313-331 [Hebrew]. 

Personal website: https://www.abenyishai.net/