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Dr. Galia Benziman

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The Open University of Israel Department of Literature, Language and the Arts One University Road, P.O.B. 808 Ra’anana 4353701, Israel
Office:972-2-5346877 Email:[email protected]

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
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
2012 –
 Senior Lecturer, Open U
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
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

2008-  Member, MLA – Modern Language Association 

 
 

 Codes of Bereavement: Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

The Bildungsroman and Its Variations: Generic, Political, and Psychological Aspects. Raanana: Open University Press, 2016 [course book, in Hebrew]

Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

“Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and the Refusal to Grow Up: The Dialectics of Bildung.” The Goethe Yearbook, forthcoming.

“Wordsworth’s Prelude, the Eternal Child, and the Dialectics of Bildung.” Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms 5 (2016): 33-55.

“’Feeble Pictures of an Existing Reality’: The Factual Fiction of Nicholas Nickleby.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 45 (2014): 95-112.

“Hardy in Israel: Back to the Land of the Pentateuch.” The Hardy Review 16/2 (Fall 2014): 22-29.

“The Child’s Perspective: Hardy, Joyce, and the Redefinition of Childlike Romantic Sensibilities.” Joyce Studies Annual (2013): 151-71.

“Thrust beneath the Carpet: Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” Studies in the Novel 45/2 (Summer 2013): 198-213.

“Father, Author, President: Paul Auster’s Figures of Invisibility.” Canadian Review of American Studies 43/3 (Summer 2013): 462-79.

Benziman, Galia, Kannai, Ruth, Ahmad, Ayesha. “Wounded Healer Narratives: The Evolution of a Therapeutic and Cultural Archetype.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14/1 (March 2012): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol14/iss1/11

“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)

“Never Hearing the Last of It: Dickens, Jingle, and the Pleasure of Incompleteness.” Dickens Quarterly 27/4 (December 2010): 292-98.

“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

Oliver Twist: Urban Aesthetics and the Homeless Child.” In: The Oxford Handbook to Charles Dickens. Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan and Catherine Waters, eds. Oxford University Press (commissioned; forthcoming 2018).

“Who Stole the Child?: Missing Babies and Blank Identities in Early Dickens.” In: Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters, eds., Dickens and the Imagined Child. Farnham: Ashgate Press, 2015, pp. 27-41.

“The Self-Resisting: Hardy’s Ambivalent Evocation of Romantic Childhood.” In: Adrian Grafe and Jessica Stephens, eds. Lines of Resistance: Essays on English Poetry from Thomas Hardy to Linton Kwesi Johnson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, pp. 15-28.

Review of D. B. Ruderman’s The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form (Routledge, 2016). Victorian Studies (commissioned, forthcoming 2018).

Review of Kate Thomas’s Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters (Oxford UP, 2012). Hardy Review 15/2 (Fall 2013): 80-82, commissioned.

“Afterword.” Charles Dickens, Bleak House. Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing, 2013, pp. 999-1020 (Hebrew)

“Introduction,” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (Tel Aviv: Yediot-Aharonot, 2004): 5-12 [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. 

“Mourning and Melancholia: The Dead Mother in Dickens,” a paper presented at the Dickens Society Annual Symposium, “Interdsciplinary Dickens,” Boston University, July 2017.

“The Self-Made Child: Dickens, Hard Times, and the Delusion of Inferior Origins,” a presented at the NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) and NYU conference, Florence, May 2017.

“Concluding Reflections,” Concluding Roundtable Panel Speaker at the conference “What Else Is New? Rethinking the ‘New’ and Its Values in Literature and Literary Scholarship” – the Inaugural Conference on the Study of English Literature in Israel. The University of Haifa, February 2017.

“Bildung, the Eternal Child, and Wordsworth’s Dialectics of Socialization,” a talk delivered at Zoe Beenstock’s book launch “The Politics of Romanticism: The Social Contract and Literature,” University of Haifa, December 2016.

“Utilizing the Dead: Hardy and His Corpses,” a paper presented at the BAVS (British

“Utilizing the Dead: Hardy and His Corpses,” a paper presented at the BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) Conference, “Consuming (the) Victorians,” Cardiff University, August-September 2016

“Talking Birds and Talking to Birds: Translating the Child in Barnaby Rudge,” a paper presented at the Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Adapting Dickens,” Iceland University, July 2016

“He didn’t want to be a man”: The Bildungsroman and the Refusal to Grow Up,” a paper presented at the Literature Department’s Annual Symposium in Memory of Prof. Yosef Haefrati, Tel Aviv University, May 2016

“The Self-Made Child: Dickens and the Delusion of Inferior Origins,” a paper presented at the BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) Conference, “Victorian Age(s),” Leeds Trinity University, August 2015

“Gravy, Turtle Soup, and the Maternal Egg,” a paper presented at the Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Liquid Dickens,” St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2015

“Who Stole the Child: Missing Babies and Blank Identities in Early Dickens,” a paper presented at the English Department staff seminar, the Hebrew University, May 2015

“Dickens and the Power of the Maternal Gaze,” a paper presented at the conference “Children’s Literature and Children in Literature,” University of Haifa, December 2014

“The City, Textual Landscapes, and the Dickensian Child,” a paper presented at the BAVS Conference, “Victorian Sustainability,” University of Kent, Canterbury, September 2014

“Dickens’s Child and the Textual Landscape of the City,” a paper presented at the Annual Dickens Society Symposium, “Dickensian Landscapes,” Domaine de Sagnes, Béziers, July 2014

“Childhood as Self-Destruction: Wordsworth’s Dialectics of Growing Up,” a paper presented at the conference “Romanticism and Self-Destruction,” University of Bristol, May 2014

“Being Someone Else: Split Subjectivity and Lost Innocence in Dickens’s London,” a paper presented at the conference “The Child and the Big City,” Tel Aviv University, March 2014

“Trapped in Childhood: Versions of Anti-Bildung – Goethe and Wordsworth,” a paper presented at the MLA Annual Convention, Boston, January 2013

“’Inscribed in Bare Conventionality’: Hardy’s Codes of Bereavement,” a paper presented at the International Thomas Hardy Conference, Dorchester, Aug. 2012

“Written Selves and Phantom Lovers in Hardy’s Novels,” a paper presented at the conference “The Novel and Theories of Love,” Hebrew University, June 2012

“’Inscribed in Bare Conventionality’: Hardy’s Words of Bereavement,” a paper presented at the conference “The Poetry of Thomas Hardy,” University of Artois, Arras, June 2012

“Who Stole the Child: Missing Babies and Blank Identities in Early Dickens,” a paper presented at “Dickens and the Idea of ‘The Dickensian’: A Tale of Four Cities,” a bicentenary traveling conference co-organized by the University of Paris-Diderot, Leicester University, Canterbury Christ Church University, University of Kent, Universite Charles De-Gaulle Lille 3, and The Dickens Museum; Paris, Boulogne, Chatham, and London, February 2012

“Avoiding the Future, Resisting the Past: Hardy’s Post-Romantic Sense of Time,” a paper presented at the “Victorian Futures” conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 2011

“Thrust Beneath the Carpet: Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented at the “Hardy at Yale” conference, Yale University, New Haven, June 2011

“Hardy’s Dubious Traces of Home,” a paper presented at the annual MVSA (Midwest Victorian Studies Association) conference “Victorian Environments: Spaces, Places, Traces,” Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, April 2011

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 

April 2010 “The Child of Modernism: Redefining Romantic Subjectivity,” a paper presented at the NeMLA annual conference, Montreal, Canada 

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 

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 

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 

April 2009  “The Americanization of Sholom Aleichem,” a paper presented to the Jewish Studies Program and Literature Department, UC Santa Cruz 

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 

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 

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 

November 2007  “Hardy and the Failure of Writing,” a paper presented to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University 

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