Updated: February 2011
- Personal
- Education
- Research Grants and Awards
- Academic Teaching and Positions
- Other Activities
- Membership in a Professional Association
- List of Publications
- Conferences and Invited Talks
Personal
Tel/fax: 972-2-5346877
Email: galiab@openu.ac.il
Home address: 10 Keren Hayesod Street, Mevasseret-Zion, 90805
Education
| 2008 – 2009 | Post-Doctorate: Fulbright and Dan David Prize Fellow, The Dickens Project and Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2008 | PhD (with distinction), English Literature, Tel Aviv University |
| 2001 | MA (summa cum laude), English Literature, Tel Aviv University |
| 1994 | BA (magna cum laude), Classical Studies and English Literature, Tel Aviv University |
Research Grants and Awards
| 2009 – 2010 | Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Declined) |
| 2008 – 2009 | Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship |
| 2008 – 2009 | Dan David Prize Post-Doctoral Scholarship |
| 2003 – 2007 | The Council for Higher Education (Vatat) Rotenstreich Fellowship for excellent doctoral students |
| 2002 – 2003 | Scholarship for excellent doctoral candidates, the English Dept. at Tel Aviv University |
| 2001, 2003 | The Elizabeth Minden Scholarship for overseas research |
| 2002 | The Beit Sholom-Aleichem Award for contribution to the research of Yiddish literature |
| 2001 | The Nadav Vardi Award for an outstanding M.A. paper, the English Dept. at Tel Aviv University |
| 2000 | The Dean of Humanities scholarship for excellent M.A. students, Tel Aviv University |
| 2000 | The Josef Erlich Project’s Award for excellence in the research of Jewish literature in English |
| 1999 | The Shoshana and Zvi Poesis Award for excellent M.A. students, School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University |
| 1993 | The Shimshon Carmel Excellence Award for outstanding achievements in B.A. studies, the English Department, Tel Aviv University |
| 1991, 1992 | Dean’s scholarship for excellent students, Tel Aviv University |
Academic Teaching and Positions
| 2009/10 - | Lecturer, Literature the Open University |
| 2008 – 2009 | Visiting Faculty, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz. Teaching courses on “Hebrew poetry,” “Jewish Writers and the American City,” and “Studies in the English Novel” |
| 2002 – 2008 | Instructor (“Madrich”), Dept. of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University. Teaching a variety of courses on nineteenth-century British literature |
| Summer 2009 | Member of the Concourse Interview Committee, Interdisciplinary Program for Excellent Students, Tel Aviv University |
| 2008 – 2009 | Member of the organizing committee of the international conference “Dickens, Victorian Culture, Uneasy Pleasures,” sponsored by the University of California Dickens Project and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 2007 – 2008 | Lecturer, Department of English at Seminar Hakibbutzim College |
| 1997 – 2002 | Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Tel Aviv University |
Other Activities
| 1995 – 1997 | Vice-editor of Bishvil HaZikaron, a journal for educators on teaching the Shoah, published by the Yad-Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies |
| 1997 – 1998 | Staff member and instructor at “Elul,” Beit-Midrash for the pluralistic study of Jewish texts by religious and secular men and women |
| 1997 – 1998 | Instructor and teacher at the Mandel Institute, Jerusalem; organizing seminars for senior professionals in Jewish education in the Diaspora |
Membership in a Professional Association
| 2008- | Member, MLA – Modern Language Association |
List of Publications
Book
Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan)
Journal Articles
- “Britain’s ‘Diabolical Child-Market’: Social Conflict and the Ideology of the Child in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna’s Industrial Novel.” SEL – Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (forthcoming Fall 2011)
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“Never Hearing the Last of It: Dickens, Jingle, and the Pleasure of Incompleteness.” Dickens Quarterly 27/4 (December 2010): 292-98.
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“Whose Child Is It? Paternalism, Parenting, and Political Ambiguity in Frances Trollope’s Factory Novel.” The Victorian Newsletter 118 (Fall 2010): 7-29.
- “‘Try Not to Love Such a Country’: The Americanization of Sholom Aleichem’s Yiddish Text.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 52: 2 (Winter 2007): 209-26
- “Two Patterns of Child Neglect: Blake and Wordsworth.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 5: 2 (June 2007): 167-97
- “Dispersed Are We: Mirroring and National Identity in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts.” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 36: 1 (Winter 2006): 53-71
- “Challenging the Biological: The Fantasy of Male Birth as a Nineteenth-Century Narrative of Ethical Failure.” Women's Studies 35: 4 (June 2006): 375-95
- “Success, Law, and the Law of Success: Reevaluating Death of a Salesman's Treatment of the American Dream.” South Atlantic Review 70: 2 (Spring 2005): 20-40
Book Introduction
“Introduction,” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Tel Aviv: Yediot-Aharonot, 2004): 5-12 [Hebrew]
Book Reviews [Hebrew]
| 2001 – 2009 | More than twenty review articles in Ha'aretz Literature and Culture on English, Hebrew, and Yiddish literature, which include comprehensive reviews of David Grossman's Until the End of the Land (Isha Borachat Mibsora), and of Hebrew translations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sholom Aleichem’s Motl the Cantor’s Son, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Three Women, Seamus Heaney’s Station Island, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark, and more. |
Conferences and Invited Talks
| February 2003 | “Poverty as a Gendered Experience in George Eliot and Charles Dickens,” a paper presented at the conference “Women and Poverty,” Tel Aviv University |
| November 2003 | “Challenging the Biological: The Fantasy of Male Birth as a Nineteenth-Century Narrative of Ethical Failure,” a paper presented at the conference “Birth as Experience and Metaphor,” the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| November 2007 | “Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University |
| March 2008 | “Thrust beneath the Carpet: Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented at the conference “The Meaning of Meaning in Literature and Language,” Haifa University |
| May 2008 | “Dickens and the Split Image of the Neglected Child,” a paper presented to the Department of English at the Hebrew University |
| June 2008 | “’Feeble Pictures of an Existing Reality’: Dickens’s Wit and the Vices of the British Social System,” a paper presented at the conference “Factual Fictions,” Hebrew University |
| July 2008 | “‘Once You Create a Human-Being’: The Nature of ‘Character’ in David Grossman’s Work,” a paper presented at the conference “See Under: Grossman,” Tel Aviv University |
| April 2009 | “The Americanization of Sholom Aleichem,” a paper presented to the Jewish Studies Program and Literature Department, UC Santa Cruz |
| June 2009 | “Never Hearing the Last of It: The Pleasure of Avoidance,” a paper presented at the conference “Dickens, Victorian Culture, Uneasy Pleasures,” the Hebrew University |
| August 2009 | “The Other Side of the Dickensian Child: The Split Child Figures of the Late Forties,” a paper presented at the “Dickens Universe 2009,” University of California, Santa Cruz |
| December 2009 | “What Is It That We Remember from Wuthering Heights?,” a paper presented as part of the Lecture Series “Revisiting the Classics of English Literature,” sponsored by the Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University |
| April 2010 | “The Child of Modernism: Redefining Romantic Subjectivity,” a paper presented at the NeMLA annual conference, Montreal, Canada |
| June 2010 | “The Self-Resisting: Hardy’s Conflicts of the Self,” a paper presented at the conference “British Poetry 1875-2010 and Resistance,” University of Artois, Arras France |