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Paul Fry, Chair - William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph. D.
from Harvard. His primary areas of specialization are British romanticism, the
history of literary criticism, and contemporary literary theory. The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (Yale, 1980) received the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society in America. Among his other books are A Defense of Poetry: Essays on the Occasion of Writing (Stanford, 1996), and ed., The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Bedford-St. Martins, 1999). |
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William Cutter - Professor of Hebrew Literature, and Steinberg Professor of Human Relations at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. He is the author, most recently, of the book HEALING AND THE JEWISH IMAGINATION, and of numerous articles of Hebrew literary criticism and literary history. His work on Micah Yosef Berdyczewski includes ten articles on Berdyczewski's thinking about culture and language development. He teaches several seminars on Amichai's poetry--especially related to memory as a theme and Amichai's "anti-poetics" as literary strategy. |
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Barbara Harshav - Historian and published translator of Hebrew works of fiction, history, poetry, and drama by such prominent authors as S.Y. Agnon, Yehudah Amichai, Hanoch Levin, Meir Shalev, Michal Govrin, and Yitzhak Zuckerman. She also translates widely from German, French, and Yiddish. In the last four years, she has taught a course on translation in the Comparative Literature department of Yale University. |
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Geoffrey Hartman - Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University as well as literary theorist and one of the leading members of the deconstructionist school of criticism as portrayed in one of his works, "The Interpreter's Freud." Some of Hartman's most recent books are: 1987 - The Unremarkable Wordsworth; 1991 - Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars; 1996 - The Longest Shadow: In the Afrermath of the Holocaust; 1997 - The Fateful Question of Culture; 1999 - A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998 |
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Barbara Mann - Associate Professor of Jewish Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Her areas of expertise include Israeli and Jewish literature, cultural studies, modern poetry, urban studies, literary modernism, and the fine arts. Dr. Mann's current research concerns the relation between literature and the fine arts in twentieth-century Jewish culture. She is the author of A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space (Stanford University Press, 2005). Dr. Mann is currently Coeditor-in-Chief of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. |
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Leon Wieseltier - Writer, critic, and literary editor of The New Republic as well as translator of Yehuda Amichai's poetry. Three of his most well-known books are Kaddish (1998), Against Identity (1996), and Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace (1983) . |
