Shiri Goren
Lector in Modern Hebrew
Office: HGS B-55
Phone: (203)-436-8186
B.A. magna cum laude, Tel Aviv University
M. Phil. New York University
Doctoral Candidate, New York University
Shiri Goren has joined Yale’s faculty in 2006 as a Lector in Modern Hebrew. Her dissertation project, The Home Front: Literary Engagement with Political Crises in Israel explores Israeli women novelists and the interrelations between terror, space and domesticity. Her areas of research include: Israeli literature and culture; Gender studies; Genealogy of nation building; Zionism and Post-Zionism; Postcolonial theory; and Yiddish studies. She has presented her work at the Association for Jewish Studies conference, the National Association of Professors of Hebrew annual conferences, and at the Association of Israel Studies conference; reviewed books for Modern Hebrew Literature; and lectured at Yale University, New York University, the YIVO institute for Jewish Research and the JCC in Manhattan. Goren has recently received research grants from the A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund, and the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University.
She has taught Hebrew literature and language at New York University and currently teaches courses such as: Israeli Identity and Culture: 1948 to the Present; Israeli Society in Film; and Dynamics of Israeli Culture as well as Modern Hebrew language courses.
Before coming to the United States, she was a journalist and senior editor of news magazines on Israeli television and radio.
