Yael Ben-zvi

Ben-Gurion University

Yael Ben-zvi is lecturer at Ben-Gurion University’s department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Her works on constructions of space, identity, and belonging in early American and nineteenth-century U.S. culture have appeared in such journals as Early American Literature, American Indian Quarterly, CR: The New Centennial Review, and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. She is currently working on an ISF-funded project on native status claims in the contexts of African colonization and Indian removal. Her book manuscript (in progress) is tentatively entitled “Native Land Talk: Spatial Rights in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture.”