Maya Barzilai. Curriculum Vitae (work) MI , Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature

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1 Maya Barzilai Curriculum Vitae Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies 4167 Thayer Building University of Michigan 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor (work) MI EDUCATION 2009, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature 2002, M.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Comparative Literature, Magna cum Laude 1999, B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English and Amirim Honors Program, Magna cum Laude PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS University of Michigan, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Culture Department of Near Eastern Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures (affiliated) PUBLICATIONS Book Manuscript: Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters. NYU Press, October Peer-Reviewed Essays: Translation on the Margins: Avraham Ben Yitzhak and Yoel Hoffmann. The Journal of Jewish Identities. Volume 7:1, S. Y. Agnon s German Consecration and the Miracle of Hebrew Letters. Prooftexts. Volume 33:1, A Poetics of Statelessness: Avraham Ben Yitzhak after World War I. Naharaim: Journal of German Jewish Literature and Cultural History. Volume 7:1-2, Reading Camera Lucida in Gaza: Ronit Matalon s Photographic Travels. Comparative Literature. Volume 65:2, The Challenge of Lyric Address in War Poems by Yitzhak Laor and Ingeborg Bachmann, co-authored with Katra Byram. The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. Volume 53, Maya Barzilai CV 1

2 Invited Essays: Witnessing Dying in the Tongue of Revival: Shaul Tchernikhovsky s World War I Poetry. Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute. Volume 13, Book Chapters: The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak s Hebrew-German Revival. The German-Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange, edited by Amir Eshel and Rachel Seelig. Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming (September 2017). Melancholia as World History: W. G. Sebald s Rewriting of Hegel in Die Ringe des Saturn. W. G. Sebald and the Writing of History. Eds. Anne Fuchs and J. J. Long. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, On Exposure: Photography and Uncanny Memory in W. G. Sebald s Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald: History Memory Trauma. Eds. Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, Facing the Past and the Female Specter in W. G. Sebald s The Emigrants. In W. G. Sebald A Critical Companion. Eds. J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Book Reviews: The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, , by Cathy S. Gelbin. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Language, Absence, Play: Structuralism and Superstructuralism in the Poetics of S. Y. Agnon, by Yaniv Hagbi. Hebrew Studies. Volume 5, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2016 Honorable Mention, Salo Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies, AAJR Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies Year-long Fellowship, University of Michigan 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Summer Stipend, The Golem and the Genesis of Modern Media: Transatlantic Negotiations Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study Maya Barzilai CV 2

3 Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University Berlin and German Studies Association, Doctoral Research Fellowship 2006 Horst Frenz Prize for the best graduate student presentation at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference 2005 DAAD, Semester-long Research Fellowship, Comparative Literature Department, Free University Berlin (Prof. Gert Mattenklott, advisor) INVITED PRESENTATIONS (2010-) Golem: A Modern War Metaphor, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke University, February One Should Finally Learn How to Read This Breath : Paul Celan and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible, North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar, February Prophetic Decomposition: Mizraḥi Poetry and Eziekel s Visions, Prophetic Imaginings: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Stanford University, California, May The Hebrew Metropolis: Leah Goldberg and David Fogel, Diaspora in Modern Hebrew Literature, University of Cambridge, May Banished from the Socialist Garden: H. Leivick s Distopic Yiddish Drama, Jewish Secular Utopias and Distopias in Central and Eastern Europe, Tulane University, February Home Video and Autoethnographic Documentation in Children of the Sun and Fragments, The International Symposium on Israeli Documentary Cinema, Jerusalem Film Festival, July Post-Mortem Translations: Yeshurun Keshet s Jackals and Arabs, Roundtable on Kafka in the Middle East, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, April The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak s Bilingual Pslams, Alterations: A Celebration in Honor of Robert Alter on His 75 th Birthday, University of California, Berkeley, May S.Y.Agnon s German Consecration and the Miracle of Hebrew Prose, German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation, An International Conference at the University of Chicago, April CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2010-) The Curse of Race: Racial Slurs in Israeli Culture, Moder Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, January Her Face Was Not Quotable : Approaching Ronit Matalon s Surrealism, Association of Jewish Studies Conference, San Diego, December Maya Barzilai CV 3

4 Hebrew-German Monolingualism: Lingual Contradictions in Novels by S. Y. Agnon and Leah Goldberg, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Harvard University, March The Golem of New York: Popular Culture for Jewish Immigrants, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Austin, TX, January Weinreich and Agnon Go to the Movies: German Cinema in Hebrew and Yiddish Writings, Seminar on Jews and the Study of Popular Culture, German Studies Association Conference, October Learning to Read the Breath-Unit : Paul Celan s Dialogue with the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible Translation, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston, January Modern Hebrew: Primary Sources for a Reconsideration of its Revival, Politics and Poetics, Roundtable co-organizer at the Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Chicago, December Reframing the Holy Land: The Adventures of Jewish Women Cartoonists in Israel, Graphic Details Symposium, Yeshiva University Museum and Center for Jewish History, New York, February Farzvayfelt: The Conundrum of Multilingualism in Yoel Hoffmann and Avraham Ben Yitzhak, National Association of Professors of Hebrew Conference, College Park Maryland, June Cosmic Witnesses in War Poems by Shaul Tchernikhovsky and Avraham Ben Yitzhak, Organizer of Panel on The Poetics of War in Modern Hebrew Literature, Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Boston, December Techniques of the Survivor: The Expressive Turn in Paul Wegener s Golem Films, German Studies Association Conference, Oakland, October INVITED WORKSHOPS Crosscurrents of Translation Between German and Hebrew, University of Chicago, April Growing Old: Post Utopian Personhood in Israeli Cultural Production, Workshop on Hebrew Culture and Theory, University of Florida, September The Invention of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann s Shoah in the Twenty-First Century, University of Missouri, November The Future of the Past: German Cinema and Its Media, The German Film Institute, University of Michigan, May Culture and Myth, Workshop on Hebrew Culture and Theory, Duke University, February Maya Barzilai CV 4

5 The Cinema of Crisis: German Film , The German Film Institute, University of Michigan, May EXTRAMURAL SERVICE Reviewer for the journals: Comparative Literature; Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture; The German Quarterly; Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore; Jewish Quarterly Review; The Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture; Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook; Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; PMLA; Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Executive committee member, MLA Global Jewish forum, , elected. MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Comparative Literature Association Association for Jewish Studies German Studies Associations Modern Language Association Maya Barzilai CV 5