Updated: 22 September 2020
HIGHER EDUCATION
Tel Aviv University, Israel, Department of English, English and American Literature | B.A.| 1993
Tel Aviv University, Rubin Academy of Music, Piano Pedagogy and Performance | B.M. | 1993
Scottish Universities' International Summer School (SUISS) | Certificate | 1993
University of California, Irvine, Department of English, Contemporary Literature | M.A. | 1995
Cornell University, School of Criticism and Theory, Critical Theory | Certificate (with distinction) | 1998
University of California, Irvine, English, Emphasis: Critical Theory | Ph.D. | 2000
University of Rhode Island Office of Online Education, Online Teaching Fellow | Certificate | 2014
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature | 2000-2006
Associate Professor (with tenure) of English and Comparative Literature | 2006-2012
Professor of English | 2012-present
Professor of Film Media | 2014-present
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculty of Humanities, Halbert Center for Canadian Studies | Department of Literature, Visiting Professor | 2010
Faculty of Humanities, Department of English, Associate Professor | July 1, 2018 | tenured 2020
Ann and Joseph Edelman Chair in American Studies | 2020
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA
Teaching Assistant Program Administrator, English | Formal training and Supervision of all 28 Teaching Assistants in English | 2001-2005
University College and General Education Committee | Evaluates and approves applications of individual courses for General Education status | 2002-2003
Representative to the Faculty Senate | 2003-2006, 2013-2015
Disability Resource Mentor | Assists instructors and faculty in meeting the needs of students with disabilities in their classes | 2005-2017
Coordinator of English at Feinstein Campus, Providence, Rhode Island | Responsible for staffing, scheduling, outreach, and assessments | 2007-2009
Interim Director, Program of Comparative Literature | Advised students about program and degree requirements| Chair, Comparative Literature Executive Committee | 2008
Executive Committee, Center for the Humanities | 2008-2017
Representative to the Graduate Council | English | 2010-2012
Director of Graduate Studies | Responsible for all aspects of the Graduate Program in English (M.A. and Ph.D.) | Responsible for planning, coordinating, and reporting Graduate Assessment of English | 2010-201
Assessments Officer English | Responsible for planning, coordinating, and reporting Undergraduate Assessment of English | 2007-2008 | 2016-2017
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Undergraduate Advisor | 2021-
Academic Committee, Spielberg Archive 2023-2026
Doctoral Excellence committee, Jeff, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies 2023-2026
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Founding member and editorial board member, The Journal of Mundane Behavior | 1999-2004
Editorial board member, ATQ (American Transcendental Quarterley) | 2000-2007
Advisory Committee, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America) | 2015-2018
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) Research Committee On Religion, Ethics, and Literature | 2017-present
AWARDS
Teaching Excellence Award, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. | 2000
Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island, U.S.A. | 2010
Recognition of Excellence, Office of Student Learning, University of Rhode Island, U.S.A. | 2018
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Golda Meir Fellowship Fund, Faculty Fellowship | 2018-2019
RESEARCH GRANTS (selected)
State of California, U.S.A. University of California Regents, California President’s Dissertation Fellowship | 1999-2000
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Council for Research, Faculty Development Research Grant | 2002
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., URI Foundation, Capstone Development | 2002
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Council for Research, Career Enhancement Grant | 2006
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., URI Center for Humanities, David Maron Fellowship | 2006
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Office of the Provost, Competitive Sabbatical Award | 2006-2007
National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S.A. Funded Participation in Summer Institute on the topic of Human Rights in Conflict | 2006
State of Virginia, U.S.A., Virginia Institute for the Humanities Summer Fellowship (declined) | 2008
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Council for Research, Faculty Development Research Grant | 2009
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Council for Research, Project Completion Grant | 2014
The University of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Office of the Provost, Competitive Sabbatical Award | 2017-2018
European Institutes for Advanced Study, Warsaw, Poland, 10-month residency Senior Fellowship | 2017-2018
The Israel Science Foundation, grant No. 1555/20. Hacking as Literary and Technological Reciprocity: Backgrounds and Effects of the Human/Machine Symbiosis | 2020-2024
INSTITUTES AND COLLOQUIA ORGANIZED
Coordinator, "Violence and Ethics." 3-day symposium. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Michigan, U.S.A | 2004
Coordinator, "Extreme Contemporary, Contemporary Extreme. Louisville Conference on Language and Literature after 1900. Louisville, U.S.A. | 2008
Coordinator (with Alain-Philippe Durand) of URI Symposium on Violence and Ethics | 2008
Panel Chair, “Local and Trans-local Dimensions in Literature,” American Jews and Their (Various) Others: Sketching New Maps of Identity, Religion, Civil Religion, and Society Conference, Hebrew University | 2018
Panel Organizer and Chair SELI (Study of English Literature in Israel) 3rd Annual Conference, Tel Aviv University | 2019
Book Launch and Seminar on Leona Toker’s Gulag Literature and the Literautre of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading. With Lola Kantor-Kazovsky and Amos Goldberg | 2021
INTERVIEWS GRANTED
Berman, A.S. "'Journal' puts mundane under microscope." USA Today 25 May 2000.
Oldenberg, Don. "Serious Look at Life's Boring Side." Washington Post 6 Mar 2001: C04.
Wenzel, Jan. "Terrorist alerts 'mundane' for URI professor." URI News 19 November 2002.
Scharfenberg, David. "A Decade of Turmoil: Rhode Island's brightest minds on where we are now." The Providence Phoenix 15 Sep 2011: 8.
Borg, Linda. "The 9/11 Decade: Trying to teach the new normal in colleges.”The Providence Journal 8 Sep. 2011. A10.
Justyna Orlowska. “Prawda, czyli odbicie fikcji.” Academia: Magazyn Polskiej Akademii Nauk 53.1 (2018): 46-49. (Polish)