Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Awards and Honors

The Bronfman Philanthropies Grant, The Brandeis-Israel Collaborative Research Initiative. (2012)

AIS Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies for 2007 (2008)

Courses Taught

NEJS	173a	Trauma and Violence in Israeli Literature and Film
NEJS	174a	Minorities and Others in Israeli Literature and Culture
NEJS	174b	Israeli Women Writers on War and Peace
NEJS	177a	The Holocaust in Israeli and Jewish Literature
NEJS	178a	Love, Sex, and Power in Israeli Culture
NEJS	178b	Masculinity and Femininity in Israeli Film, Literature, and Culture
NEJS	180b	Introduction to Israeli Literature, Film, and Culture
USEM	24b	The Howl of Simple Words: Reading Gender in Israeli Literature and Cinema

Scholarship

Szobel, Ilana. A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2013.

Szobel, Ilana. "‘Unveiling Injustice:’ Dalia Ravikovitch’s Poetry of Witness." Narratives of Dissent:: Representations of War In Israeli Culture. Ed. Rachel S. Harris and Ranen Omer-Sherman, Eds.. Wayne State UP, 2012. 167-186.

Szobel, Ilana. ""Hovering at a Low Altitude:" Testimony and Complicity in the Political Writing of Dahlia Ravikovitch." Sparks of Light: Essays about Dahlia Ravikovitch’s Oeuvre. Ed. Hamutal Tsamir and Tamar S. Hess. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010. 444 - 469.

Szobel, Ilana. "Forever Beholden: The State of Orphanhood in the Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch." Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender 19. (2010): 228 - 247.

Szobel, Ilana. "God of Fury and His Victims: the Binding of Isaac (Akedah) in Hebrew Women's Poetry, 1930-1970." Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 22. (2008): 65-92.

Szobel, Ilana. "'She Tried to Escape and Lost her Senses:' Alienation and Madness in the Stories of Dahlia Ravikovitch." Theory and Criticism 28. (2006): 127-155.