I am interested in early modern literature and its intersection with philosophy and theology, sepcializing on Milton, Shakespeare and early modern drama, and religious prose and poetry. I have wider interests in poetic theory, rhetoric, literature and ethics, classics and English, and the history of ideas. I teach courses on a wide range of topics relating to early modern English literature, includin Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, early modern drama, baroque and metaphysical poetry, early modern poetics, prose and rhetoric.
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Research and teaching
CV
D.Phil (English) Oxford University
M.Phil (English) Oxford University, with distinction.
B.A (Classics and English) Tel-Aviv University, Magna cum Laude.
Appointments and Academic Honours:
Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, 2008 -
Alon Scholarship for the academic years 2008-11.
Plumer Research Fellow in English, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University (2006-2008)
British Overseas Research Student Award (For studies at Oxford, 2001-2003)
The Nadav Vardi Scholarship for Academic Excellence (Tel-Aviv University, 1999)
The Becky Greenwald Scholarship (Tel-Aviv University, 1998).
תחומי מחקר
ספרות ותרבות הרנסנס האנגלי, מילטון ובני זמנו, שייקספיר ודרמה אנגלית בעת החדשה המוקדמת, ספרות קלאסית ברנסנס האירופי ותולדות הרעיונות.
Publications
Books:
- Wild Play: The Ethics of Revenge Drama in the English Renaissance (in progress)
- John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Reading Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011)
- Milton and the Ineffable (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Articles and chapters in books:
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“Young Milton’s Pauline Temper”. Forthcoming in Making Milton, ed John Garrison and Marrisa Nicosia (Oxford University Press, under contract)
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‘The Theatricalization of Patient Revenge in English Renaissance Tragedy’, special issue of Etudes anglaises, 72.1 (2019): 393-408, on “Elizabethan Drama and Religion”, ed. Line Cottegnies.
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"תרבות הרנסנס באנגליה" פרק עבור תולדות הרעיונות, כרך א: העת החדשה המוקדמת, בעריכת יוסי מאלי, (ירושלים: מוסד ביאליק, 2018), 223-46.
‘English Renaissance Culture’, in The History of Ideas: volume 1, The Early Modern Period, ed. Yosi Mali (Jerusalem: Bialik press, 2018. Hebrew. 223-46.
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“‘“The spirit of prayer inspired”: Invocation as Prayer in Milton’s Poetic Imagination,” in Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature: Gesture, Word and Devotion, ed. Joseph William Sterrett (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 198-211.
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'Pre-Eminent Among Gentiles: Milton's Major Poetry in Hebrew' in Milton in Translation, eds. Angelica Duran, Islam Issa and Jonathan R. Olson (Oxford University Press, 2017), 416-42
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‘Rethinking Milton’s Hebraic God’, in Imagining the Jewish God, eds. Leonard V. Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm (Lexington, 2016), 299-318.
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'The Poetic Promise of 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' The New Blackwell Companion to Milton, 2nd edn, ed. Thomas N. Corns (Blackwell Publishing, 2016), 230-240
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'Martyred Signs: Robert Southwell's Religious Use of Metaphor', Scintilla 18 (2015): 51-67.
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'Limited Being: Revising Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy', in The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature, ed. Sophie Chiari (Ashgate, 2015), 145-160.
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'Framing Religion: Marlovian policy and the pluralism of art', in Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts, eds. Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt (Wayne State University Press, 2013), 311-329.
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'Obituary and Rapture in Milton's Memorial Latin Poems', in Young Milton, ed. Edward Jones (Oxford University Press, 2011 ).
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'The Paradox of Mimesis in Sidney's Defence of Poesie and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus'. Cambridge Quarterly 39:4 (2010), 331-49
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‘The Many Faces of Milton’. The Cambridge Quarterly 38 (2009): 78-87.
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‘The Preacher and Profane Learning’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, eds. Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington, Emma Rhatigan (Oxford University Press, 2011), 72-87.
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‘Spiritual Architectonics: Destroying and Rebuilding the Temple in Paradise Regained’. Milton Quarterly 43:3 (2009), 166-82.
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‘Textual Sacraments: Capturing the numinous in the Sermons of Lancelot Andrewes’. Renaissance Studies 21:5 (2007): 662-78.
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‘The Prophet’s Conundrum: Poetic Soaring in Milton’s “Nativity Ode” and the “The Passion”. Philological Quarterly 83:4 (Sep. 2004): 371-88.