Completed PhD Dissertations in Literature

Uriel Rosenbloom (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Weird Cauldron: The Shaping of Speculative Fiction in the Pulp Magazine Weird Tales, 1923–1939” (2023)

Shira Levy (supervisor: Zohar Weiman-Kelman)
“Queer Temporality, Genre and Gender in Grace Paley’s Storytelling” (2023)

Ohad Reznick (supervisors: Barbara Hochman and Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“Jews Passing as Non-Jews in Post-WWII and Multicultural American Fiction” (2022)

Danielle Rubin (supervisors: Yael Ben-Zvi and Barbara Hochman)
“The Hebrew Bible in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Reading King David as Type, Allegory and History” (2018)

Catherine Mooney (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“Understanding and Judgement in ‘The Grey Zone’: Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust” (2018)

Netta Bar Yosef-Paz (supervisor: Eitan Bar-Yosef)
“White Trash, Literary Trash: Contemporary American Filth-Fiction” (2016)

Manja Herrmann (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“Concepts of Authenticity in Early German Zionism until 1914” (2015)

Alana Sobelman (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“Autobiographical Turns of the Freudian Scholar: Life Writing of Peter Gay and Sarah Kofman” (2015)

Michele Horowitz (supervisor: Chanita Goodblatt)
“Envisioning the World in Poetry for Children: Haim Nahman Bialik, Kadya Molodowsky and Shel Silverstein” (2012)

Shlomi Deloia (supervisor: Barbara Hochman)
“Between ‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity’: Whiteness and Cultural Identity in the Jewish American Immigration Novel of the 1920s” (2011)

June Leavitt (supervisor: Mark Gelber)
“Franz Kafka's Mystical Modalities” (published by Oxford University Press as The Mystical Lives of Franz Kafka) (2010)

Hannah Adelman Komy (supervisor: Efraim Sicher)
“Second Generation Narratives in Jewish American and Israeli Fiction” (2007)