פרופ' מלאת שמיר | Prof. Milette Shamir

Milette Shamir’s research focuses on U.S. literature and culture in the nineteenth century.  She is the author of Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature (Penn University Press, 2005) and the editor of Boys Don't Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the US (with Jennifer Travis, Columbia University Press, 2002). Her most recent edited collection, Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Novel, Its Adaptations, and their Audiences (with Barbara Ryan, Syracuse University Press, 2015), is an offshoot of her monograph on American Holy-Land Narratives and the modernization of U.S. cultural forms during the long nineteenth century.  Her work appeared in several journals and essay collections devoted to the study of American literature and cultural history.

Shamir is currently Vice Dean of the Humanities for Academic Affairs.  She is also head of the American Studies track, which she co-founded in 2006 with Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael Zakim. She served as head of the Department of English and American Studies from 2006 to 2009.  In 2012 she founded TAU’s pioneering undergraduate program for international students--the BA in Liberal Arts—and served as its academic director until 2016.

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הבית המפוצל: פרטיות ואינטימיות בבית האמריקני במאה התשע–עשרה