Department of Comparative Literature
Subject: Displaced Cartographers: Space, Place, and Mapping in the Poetry of Paul Celan and Avot Yeshurun - A Comparative Study
Supervisor: Prof. Yoav Rinon, Prof. Vivian Liska
Abstract: My study is dedicated to the poetic works of Avot Yeshurun and Paul Celan and to the crucial role questions of space and place, rootedness and uprootedness, displacement and homelessness occupy in it. At the center of the study stands a practice which I call “Poetic Cartography”: poetically re-mapping (and thus re-constituting) actual “real-life” places. This artistic mapping method which is historically and ethically oriented, seeks to alter the ways we think and understand the spaces and places in which we live.
Bio: I'm interested in 20th century literature and thought, with an emphasis on the convergence between German literature and French theory. My PhD research will be a comparative study of the poetics of Paul Celan and Aavot Yeshurun regarding modernity's "Crisis of Language".
Presidential Stipend 2016/17