Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai

Senior Lecturer – Department 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 am currently completing a manuscript on the literary and cultural history of the Indian Emergency, provisionally entitled, Genres of Emergency: Crisis, Continuity, and Corruption in the Indian Novel 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:

• • Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction Oxford University Press, 2013. (208 pp.)

 Article/s:

• • “Realism as Such” Victorian Literature and Culture 46.3-4 (2018) 831-835.
  • “Emergency Fictions” (with Eitan Bar-Yosef) in Cambridge History of the Indian Novel in English, Ulka Anjaria (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 162-176.
  • “Walking the Boundaries in Victorian Fiction: Realism as Communal Epistemology,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 37.3 (2015): 197-214.

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