Assistant Professor
2018, PhD, Comparative Literature, Princeton University
2009, MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Michigan
2007, AB, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Bio
I’m a scholar of modern Hebrew, Arabic, and English literature, with a focus on Palestine/Israel and interest in translation, nationalism studies, and prison literature. I conduct research and teach on the relationship between literature, politics, and history primarily in the Middle East and North Africa, including on the public, extraliterary roles that writers adopt; literary representations of crisis; reception by the public and the state; and state repression and imprisonment of writers.
Publications:
Books:
- Talpaz, Sheera, and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, editors. The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation. Routledge, forthcoming.
Articles:
- Talpaz, Sheera. “Nostalgic Utopias in Zionist Literature.” The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation, edited by Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Routledge, forthcoming.
- Talpaz, Sheera. “Palestine/Israel and the Dynamics of Suspicion.” Suspicion, cluster of Post45: Contemporaries, edited by Eleanor Russell, 2024.
- Talpaz, Sheera. “Yehuda Amichai, the Unlikely National Poet.” Prooftexts, vol. 38, no. 3, 2021, pp. 623-647.
Awards
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, 2023-2024
- Alternate for the AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, 2023-2024