About the Faculty

Shiri T. Goren
Senior Lector in Modern Hebrew
shiri.goren@yale.edu
Office: HGS B-55
Phone: (203)-436-8186

Curriculum Vitae

Shiri Goren (B.A., Magna cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 2001; M. Phil. New York University, 2007; PhD, New York University, 2010) has joined Yale’s faculty in 2006.

Her dissertation, The Home Front: Literary Engagement with Political Crises in Israel explores how terror affects private spaces in Israel of the 1990’s. It focuses on novels by the Israeli women writers Orly Castel-Bloom, Gabriella Avigur-Rotem, and Ronit Matalon. She is interested in Hebrew Literature and Israeli Culture, Yiddish Studies, Gender and Queer theory, and Israeli Film.

Her current book project: Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture highlights a transnational generation of scholars revitalizing the field of Yiddish Studies. The volume reflects the methodological range of the field today and captures its cutting edge. Co-edited with Lara Rabinovitch and Hannah Pressman, this book will be published by Wayne State University Press, in 2011.

Goren has reviewed books for The American Jewish Archives Journal and Modern Hebrew Literature; wrote for AJS Perspectives, and has recently received grants from the A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund (2009-2011), The Center for Language Study (IIG 2008) 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.