Completed MA Theses in Literature

Yuval Carmel (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Ghostly Hauntings of the Past: The Gothic Ghost in Works by Wharton, Leroux, and du Maurier” (2024)

Amit Haddad (supervisors: Yael Segalovitz and Iris Idelson-Shein)
“Textual Melancholia in Glikl's Memoirs and Emma Lieber's The Writing Cure” (2023)

Ido Lior (supervisor: Aaron Landau)
“Heroes from Hell: Shylock, Caliban and Lucifer in Early Modern Literature and Postmodern Popular Culture” (2023)

Eden Ashkenzi (supervisors: Yael Ben-Zvi and Yael Segalovitz)
“Listening In: Sound in Tommy Orange's There There and Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American” (2023)

Tal Maletin (supervisor: Zohar Weiman-Kelman)
“Dickinson's Resistance: Self-Archiving in Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Letters” (2023)

Neta Kleine (supervisors: Yael Segalovitz and Efraim Sicher)
“Body of Work: Corporeal Pain in the Poetry of Mina Loy and Marina Tsvetaeva” (2022)

Nitzan Halperin (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Readers and Reading in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and in Three Contemporary Re-imaginings” (2022)

Tom Cohen (supervisors: Yael Ben-Zvi and Lynn Schler)
“Yoruba Mythology and Cosmology in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon” (2021)

Ido Zac (supervisors: Yael Segalovitz and Yael Ben-Zvi)
“Israeli Nationalism in Shimon Halkin's Hebrew Translation of Leaves of Grass” (2021)

Asaf Bracha (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“H.G. Wells and the Environment: Nature, Ecology, and Pollution in Three Works by Wells” (2021)

Nazeny Hovakimyan (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Yael Ben-Zvi)
“The Child in the New England Primer and the McLoughlin Brothers’ ABC Books: from Piety to Playfulness” (2021)

Dor Goldtzvaig (supervisors: Chanita Goodblatt and Ilana Rosen)
“Reading Two Coming-of-Age Novel Sequences by Louisa May Alcott” (2021)

Priel Cohanim (supervisors: Zohar Weiman-Kelman and Yael Ben-Zvi)
“Freed from the Shackles of Any History: Archival Practices in DC Comics' Flashpoint” (2020)

Shiran Goldstein (supervisor: Aaron Landau)
“Cursed by Nature? The Male and Female Witch in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” (2019)

Michal Calo (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Zohar Weiman-Kelman)
“‘The Clitoris in Her Last Speech’: Muriel Rukeyser’s Corporeal Poetics” (2019)

Steven Weinberg (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“Kafka’s The Trial: A Reevaluation of Morality and a Critique of Jurisprudence” (2019)

Ksania Katzman (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Yael Ben-Zvi)
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Reading Darwin in Edith Wharton's ‘Bunner Sisters’ and The House of Mirth” (2019)

Bracha Faygel Vaknin (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Conceiving Virginia Woolf’s Life: A Multi-Generic Approach” (2019)

Shira Levy (supervisor: Zohar Weiman-Kelman)
“Storytelling, Temporality and Familial Narrative in Grace Paley's Short Fiction” (2018)

Elise Gelkoff (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Yael Ben-Zvi)
“(R)Evolutionary Mothers in Edith Wharton’s Early Fiction” (2018)

Naama Schwartz (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Rethinking the Gothic Effect: Excess, Transgression and the Role of Disidentification in Gothic Fiction” (2018)

Yael Nehushtai (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“Urban Horror in Victorian and Postmodern Gothic Fiction: The Mysteries of London and American Psycho” (2017)

Uriel Rosenbloom (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Catherine Rottenberg)
“Alienated American Homes: Cosmic and Gothic Houses in H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction” (2017)

Tagrid Morad (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Varying Perspectives on Margaret Mead: Autobiography, Memoir and Letters” (2017)

Jacqueline Kim Meyer (supervisor: Aaron Landau)
“Witchcraft and Magic in Shakespeare's Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays: A Shifting Perspective” (2016)

Elina Gomberg (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Blame It on the Mother: Ideals of Motherhood in America, 1892–2003” (2016)

Eiman Jummal (supervisor: Yael Ben-Zvi)
“Negotiations of Adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Yusef Idris's The Sinners” (2016)

Ohad Reznick (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Passing for White and Passing for Gentile in Postwar American Fiction” (2016)

Michal Slossberg (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Intertextuality as a Form of Critique in Edith Wharton's ‘Bunner Sisters’ and ‘Summer’” (2016)

Naomi Yeshayahou (supervisors: Catherine Rottenberg and Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Villains and Lackeys in Victorian Literature (1860–1881)” (2016)

Hiba Nser (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Social Class and Marriage in Jane Austen's Persuasion” (2015)

Kathi Pearlmutter (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Poetry and History in WWI Commonwealth Cemeteries in Israel” (2015)

Eyal Soffer (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“The Machiavellian Sources of Frank Herbert's Dune” (2015)

Nevet Tachnai (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“Marital Abuse in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel” (2015)

Valerie Khaskin (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Feminist Discourse and the Changing of the Vampire, 1890s–2000s” (2015)

Leonard Stein (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“To Conceal In Order to Reveal: Identity Formation in Crypto-Jewish American Literature” (2015)

Inna Speisky Kotovski (supervisor: Aaron Landau)
“Domestic Drama and Shakespearean High Tragedy” (2015)

Boris Grushko (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“The Fetishization of Foreignness in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence” (2014)

Shany Rozenblatt (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“The Representation of Jewish Masculinity in Contemporary American Sitcom” (2014)

Lilach Shahar (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Heredity and Environment, Alcohol, Gender Norms, and Sexuality: The Influence of Zola's L'Assommoir on Norris's McTeague” (2014)

Mark Elliott Shapiro (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“Irony After Auschwitz? A Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Poetry of Dan Pagis and A. M. Klein” (2013)

Adaya Amar (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Power and Sexuality in the Narrative of the House of David” (2013)

Aviv Ben-Aliezer (supervisors: Eitan Bar-Yosef and Guy Beiner)
“How Women Who Were Artists' Models for the Pre-Raphaelite Painters Became Artists Themselves” (2013)

Idmit Drori (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Reading Poetic Metaphor: An Empirical Study” (2013)

Ilana Bergsagel (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“The Ethics of Relationships in John Donne's Love Poetry” (2013)

Shimron Louis Lyons Tubman (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“From Kitchen to Kitchen: The Domestic Path to Freedom in Uncle Tom's Cabin” (2013)

Elizaveta Futerman (supervisor: Yael Ben-Zvi)
“Rethinking Barthes' Photographic Evidence through Dionne Brand's What We All Long For” (2012)

Yehudit Gilead (supervisors: Eitan Bar-Yosef and Aaron Landau)
“In Bluebeard's Castles: Jane Eyre and the Interpellated [S]ubject” (2012)

Sima Goldenfeld (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving Representation of War – from High-School Prose to The Great Gatsby” (2012)

Beeba Matthew (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Layers of Identity in Minority Literature in Israel: A Comparative Reading of Anton Shammas, Eli Amir and Sami Michael” (2012)

Danielle Rubin (supervisor: Yael Ben-Zvi)
“To Live Together in the Finest Sense: The Confidence-Man's Fictional Community” (2012)

Adva Salomon (supervisor: Yael Ben-Zvi)
“The Story of the Breedloves: Voicing the ‘Pathological’ Family in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye” (2012)

Hila Maiman (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“No Time to Be Sentimentering: Sentimentalism in Huckleberry Finn” (2011)

Donna Metreger (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“The Image of the Mother in the Hebrew Bible” (2011)

Sima Murinson Goldenfeld (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Fitzgerald's Evolving Representation of War – From This Side of Paradise to The Great Gatsby” (2011)

Peter Doughty (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Wise Blood: Self-Knowledge and the Ethics of Dialogism” (2010)

Irena Bar-Sela (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Gerda Elata)
“Age and Aging: Age Markers in the Representation of the Old Woman in Contemporary English Fiction” (2009)

Miri Chertok (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“The Sun Also Rises: The Passion of Roberto Cohn” (2009)

Alana Sobelman (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“In Defense of Fiction: Representations of Trauma in Shoah Literature” (2009)

Ilana Vinnitzky (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“The City in the Poetry of Aleksandr Blok” (2009)

Oren Bahar (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“Psychoanalytic Readings of Edgar Allan Poe's Male and Female Texts” (2008)

Linda Dayan (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“The Anatomy of an Anthology: Malcolm Cowley's Portable Faulkner” (2007)

Shlomi Deloia (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Tresa Grauer)
“Retrieving the Footprints: Passing into Whiteness and the Construction of Jewish American Cultural Identity in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers” (2006, with distinction)

Hamutal Yellin (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Masked Criticism in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” (2006)

Marya Levin (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“What Makes the Man: Character versus Literacy in The Virginian and Martin Eden” (2005)

June O. Leavitt (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka” (2005)

Daphna Sharan (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Black Invisibility: Faulkner's ‘A Rose for Emily’ and ‘Dry September’” (2005)

Zehava Rotman (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Letters and Readers in Jane Austen” (2005)