Chanita Goodblatt

Ben-Gurion University

Chanita Goodblatt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. Her work on Early Modern England has focused on the two disciplines of Christian Hebraism and of Cognitive Literary Studies. In the first area - for which she received a grant from the Israel Science Foundation - she has published essays on John Donne's Sermons and on the Sidneian Psalms, as well as having recently co-edited a book entitled. Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period. She has also just completed a book-length study entitled, Written with the Fingers of Man's Hand: John Donne and Christian Hebraism. To develop the area of Cognitive Literary Studies, Chanita Goodblatt has established the Laboratory of Cognitive Poetics, in which she is involved in an interuniversity project with the Center for Brain Sciences at Bar-Ilan that focuses on the empirical study of Renaissance poetry and its reading in the 20^th and 21^st-century critical traditions - most particularly expanding on the work of I. A. Richards and the school of Gestalt psychology.