English Department
Subject: Child in Time: Childhood and Historical Consciousness in British Literature, 1850–1940
Advisor: Prof. Galia Benziman
Abstract: Exploring both little-known and famous works of history and fiction, my research will concentrate on four major British authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, and Virginia Woolf. Drawing from a diverse range of disciplines—literature, history, education, mathematics, memory studies, and childhood studies—I will examine how child characters and representations and figurations of childhood are used in British literature to make sense of history.
Bio: I completed my B.A. in History and English and my M.A. in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For my thesis, I explored questions of identity in British espionage thrillers. While studying for the M.A., I worked as a teaching assistant in the English Department, and now, during my doctoral studies, I continue to teach
Publications:
"The Art of Treason: Literary Double Agents and the Art World." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence [Forthcoming]
"Last of the Romans: Boffin, Belisarius, and the Collapse of Historical Distance in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, published online September 29, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.1982669.
"'We Read You': Spies, Documents, and Identity in John le Carré and Joseph Conrad." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 62, no. 5, 2021 (published online August 21, 2020), pp. 526–37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1806779.
President Scholarship 2021/22