Department Faculty & Teaching Fellows
Department Faculty
Dr. Reut Barzilai, Lecturer
Shakespeare; early modern drama; adaptation studies.
Dr. Zoe Beenstock, Senior Lecturer
Romanticism, eighteenth century, political theory, Palestine, orientalism, social contract theory, Enlightenment, disability studies.
Prof. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Professor, Department Chair, 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. 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
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Novel Theory; Translation Studies; Ethnicity & Migration; Feminist & Queer Theory; Literature and the Environment; Environmental Humanities.
Prof. John Myhill, Professor
Nilotic languages, language development and planning.
Dr. Keren Omry, Senior Lecturer, MA Advisor
Science Fiction; 20-21st century American Studies; African-American Literature; Jazz Literature.
Dr. Yosefa Raz, Lecturer – Accessibility Liason
Poetry & Poetics; Translation Studies; Bible as literature; Visionary Poetry.
Teaching Fellows
Ms. Irena Rudiakov, Teaching Fellow
Early modern poetry, renaissance poetry, early modern drama, religious poetry, metaphysical poetry, family theories, feminist theories, psychoanalysis, gender studies, biblical studies, 20th-century literature, war poetry, post-colonialism.
Dr. Leonid Shtramel, Teaching Fellow
Renaissance Literature; Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare Studies; Nietzsche Studies.
Dr. Miryam Sivan, Teaching Fellow
American Literature; Shoah Literature; Academic writing; Creative writing.
Ms. Jennifer Wale, Teaching Fellow
Realism; Christianity; 19th Century.