Rosen Tova, Dept. of Hebrew Literature


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


1969 - BA (Philosophy & Hebrew literature), Tel Aviv University
1973 - D.Phil. (The Muwashshahat of Yehuda ha-Levi), Oxford University
1970-71 - Lector in Hebrew literature at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University
1974-5, 1979-1984 - Lecturer, Dept. of Hebrew and Comp. literature., Haifa University
1975-1984 - Lecturer, Dept. of Hebrew Literature , Tel Aviv Univ.
1984-1986 - Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton Univ.
1987-1994 - Senior Lecturer, Hebrew Literature , Tel Aviv Univ.
1994- Associate Professor, Hebrew Literature , Tel Aviv Univ.
1992-1996 - Chairperson, Hebrew Literature , Tel Aviv Univ.
1994 - Dept. of Middle East literatures & Cultures (Spring term), Columbia Univ.

Major publications (books and major articles):


Books:

1983 - Tova Rosen-Moked, Yetzira Mehukama, Iyyun be-shirei Shemuel Ha-Nagid [Hebrew] (A Sophisticated Work, Close Reading in the Poems of Shemuel Ha-Nagid), Keter, Jerusalem. Co-written with Eddy M. Zemach.

1985 - Tova Rosen-Moked, Le-Ezor Shir [Hebrew] (The Hebrew Girdle Poem [muwashshah] in the Middle Ages), Haifa University Press, Haifa.

1997 - Tova Rosen, Shirat Ha-Hol [Hebrew] (Hebrew Secular Poetry in the Ages), Musag Series, Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad Publishing House.


Major Articles:

1. On the Closural Features of the Muwashshah’s Last Division [Hebrew], Hasifrut 25 (1977), 101-108.

2. "Testing with Riddles": The Hebrew Riddle of the Middle Ages [Hebrew], Hasifrut 30-31 (1981), 183-168.

3. Dialogue and Dramatic Situation in the Personal Poems of Shelomo Ibn Gabirol [Hebrew], Mehkarim bi-Yetzirat Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, ed. Z. Malachi, Katz Institute, TAU 1985, 143-178.

4. On toungues Being Bound and Let Loose (On Women in Medieval Hebrew Literature), Prooftexts 8 (1988), Johns Hopkins University, 67-87.

5. The Poetics of Paytanic Adaptations of the Book of Jonah [Hebrew], Jerualem Studies in Hebrew Literature 10-11 (1987-1988), Part 2, 707-736.

6. Towards the Kharja : A Study of Penultimate Units in Arabic and Hebrew Muwashshahat, in: Poesia Estrofica Arabe y Hebrea y sus Paralelos Romances, Universidad Complutense, Madrid 1991, 279-295.

7. Literary Mannerism as an Aspect of Cultural Archaism -- The Case of Todros Abulafia [Hebrew], Sadan, Studies in Hebrew Literature, 1, Katz Institute, TAU, 1994, 49-76.

8. La poésie juive espagnole, Chrétiens, Musulmans et Juifs dans l’Espagne médiéval, ed.: Ron Barkaï, Les éditions du Cerf, Paris 1994.

9. The Strophic Trend in Yehuda Halevi’s Poetry -- An Alternative Poetics? [Hebrew], Israel Levin Jubilee Volume, Studies in Hebrew Literature I, 315-328, ed.: Tova Rosen, Reuven Tzur, The Katz
Institute, Tel Aviv University, 1994.

10. ‘As in a Song by Samuel Ha-Nagid’ - Between Samuel Ha-Nagid and Yehuda Amichai [Hebrew], Jerualem Studies in Hebrew Literature 15 (1995), 83-106

Teaches in the following subject areas:


Medieval Hebrew Literature, Feminist readings in medieval Hebrew literature, Muwashshahat

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


Women’s Representations in Medieval Hebrew Literature (BA seminar)
Medieval Hebrew Poetry and Biblical Intertextuality (MA Seminar)

Areas of current research interest:


Feminist readings in medieval Hebrew literature
Intertextuality

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