Tamar Merin

Visiting Assistant Professor of Israeli Studies

Crowe Hall 3-149
Telephone: 847-467-7594
Fax: 847-467-1545
E-mail: tamar.merin@northwestern.edu

Tamar Merin specializes in Hebrew and Israeli Literature, with a focus on Israeli women’s prose and its dialogic relations with the Canon of Hebrew literature. She holds a B.A and an M.A in Comparative Literature, and a PHD in Hebrew Literature from Tel Aviv University. Her areas of teaching include: Historiography of Hebrew Literature, Israeli women’s writing, The fiction of the 1948 generation and the Statehood generation, Hebrew Modernism, Israeli culture and gender studies.

She has won several prizes, including the Woolf Foundation grant, The Nathan Rothenstreich Foundation scholarship, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture award and the Dov Sadan award for Jewish studies. She is also a critic and an essayist in the book section of Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz.

She has recently completed a book titled: “So did I write all that is written in this book”: Inter-Sexual Dialogue and the Rise of Israeli Women’s Prose, which examines the dialogue conducted by Israeli female authors with Hebrew authors who were active in the early 20th century, including David Fogel and S. Y. Agnon. Her current project: Back to London examines the Journey to Europe in the Israeli fiction of the 1970s and 1980s.

Publications by Tamar Merin

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