Olga Kuminova

Ben-Gurion University

Olga Kuminova is a teacher in the Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. She has recently submitted a dissertation on "Theorizing the Reader-Author Relationship 'After Theory'." Since 2007 she has become involved in running the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research. Her research interests include theory of written communication, functions of empathy in reading and writing of literature, and group dynamics of reading literature in class.