- Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies
Education
- AB, University of Chicago, 2007
- MFA, University of Michigan, 2009
- PhD, Princeton University, 2018
Biography
Sheera Talpaz is a comparatist specializing in modern Hebrew and Arabic literatures with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. Her scholarly interests include Israel/Palestine studies, literary translation, postcolonial and feminist theory, and nationalism studies.
Her current book project examines the idea of the “national poet” in Israeli and Palestinian cultures and letters, and her future work focuses on the figure of the poet-activist in Palestine/Israel.