Department Faculty & Teaching Fellows
Department Faculty
Dr. Reut Barzilai, Lecturer
Shakespeare; early modern drama; adaptation studies.
Dr. Zoe Beenstock, Senior Lecturer, MA Committee Chair
Romanticism, poetry, eighteenth century, political theory, Palestine, orientalism, social contract theory, Enlightenment, disability studies.
Prof. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Professor, PhD Committee Chair
abenyishai@research.haifa.ac.il
19C British Literature; Postcolonial and Global South Studies; Indian Literature and Culture; Comparative Literature; Literary Theory.
Dr. Maurice Ebileeni, Senior Lecturer
Modernist Novel; Joseph Conrad; William Faulkner; Anglophone Arab; Literature; Global Palestinian Literature; Modernism; Psychoanalysis; Postcolonial Theory.
Dr. Alex Feldman, Senior Lecturer, BA Advisor
Modern British, American & European Drama; Law & Literature, Jurisprudential Drama, Theatre & the Law; Shakespeare; Jacobean & Early Modern Drama; Modernism; Twentieth-Century Literature; Charles Dickens; Oscar Wilde; T. S. Eliot; Tennessee Williams.
Dr. Andrew Gorin, Lecturer
Twentieth- and twenty-first century North American literature and cultural studies, poetry and poetics, theories of the public sphere, media studies, critical race theory, queer theory, climate change, digital culture, Jewish-American culture, creative writing (eco-poetics, research-based, community practice)
Dr. Ayelet Langer, Senior Lecturer
Milton; Early Modern British Literary; Philosophy & Literature; Intellectual Sources; 17th Century British Literature.
Dr. Jennifer Lewin, Lecturer
Early modern literature; Poetry; Academic writing.
Dr. Danny Luzon, Lecturer, Accessibility Liaison
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Novel Theory; Translation Studies; Ethnicity & Migration; Feminist & Queer Theory; Literature and the Environment; Environmental Humanities.
Dr. Keren Omry, Senior Lecturer, Department Chair
Science Fiction; 20-21st century American Studies; African-American Literature; Jazz Literature.
Dr. Yosefa Raz, Senior Lecturer
Poetry & Poetics; Translation Studies; Bible as literature; Visionary Poetry.
Teaching Fellows
Reem Mansour, Teaching Fellow
20-21st Century African American Literature; Slave Narratives; Speculative Fiction; CRF; Prose Fiction.
Dr. Miryam Sivan, Teaching Fellow
American Literature; Shoah Literature; Academic writing; Creative writing.
Ms. Jennifer Wale, Teaching Fellow
Realism; Christianity; 19th Century.
Dr. Tal Zalmanovich, Teaching Fellow
Modern Britain; Media history; the global anti-apartheid Struggle; celebrity and transnational protest and solidarity movements.