קוב
EDUCATION:
B.A. (cum laude) in English Literature
Tel-Aviv University
1984
M.A. (cum laude) in English Literature
Tel-Aviv University
1990
School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, USA
1994
Ph.D in the Humanities
Tel-Aviv University
1996
Post-doctoral studies
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
1996-1997
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Lecturer, Department of English, Tel-Aviv University: 1997-2003
Senior Lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University: 2003- present
2004 - 2006: Chair of the Department of English, Tel-Aviv University
VISITING APPOINTMENTS:
Visiting Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, USA: 1996-1997
Visiting Scholar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China: 2005
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Center for the Study of the Novel),Stanford, USA: 2006
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Taube Center for Jewish Studies), Stanford, USA: 2007
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Graduate Advisor, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University (present)
Member of the Academic Committee of ICON, the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival of Israel 2008- 2009
Lecturer at the Ofakim Program of Tel-Aviv University 2008- 2010
Member of the Sapir Award Committee for the best Israeli novel 2006
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:
1990
British Council Research Grant-in-Aid
1991-1993
Joseph Buchmann Doctoral Scholarship
1995
British Council Research Grant-in-Aid
1996
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
International Society for the Fantastic in the Arts
The International Society for the Study of Narrative
The International Society for Utopian Studies(
MLA
AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH:
Narrative Theory, Literary Theory, Postmodernism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Victorian Studies, Charles Dickens, Science and Literature, Cultural Translation and Multiculturalism
קובץ מצורף
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Dr. Elana Gomel
ID Number: 017517046
Faculty: Humanities
Dept: English and American Studies
EDUCATION:
B.A. (cum laude) in English Literature
Tel-Aviv University
1984
M.A. (cum laude) in English Literature
Tel-Aviv University
1990
School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, USA
1994
Ph.D in the Humanities
Tel-Aviv University
1996
Post-doctoral studies
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
1996-1997
Title of Master's thesis: Woman as Monster: Images of Women in the Nineteenth-Century Fantastic.
Name of supervisor: Dr. Hana Wirth-Nesher
Title of Doctoral dissertation: Beyond the Looking-Glass: The Fantastic and the Poetics of Culture
Name of supervisor: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1997-2003: Lecturer, Department of English, Tel-Aviv University
2004 - 2006: Chair of the Department of English, Tel-Aviv University
2003 - present: Senior Lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University
VISITING APPOINTMENTS:
1996-1997: Visiting Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
September-October 2005: Visiting Scholar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
September -January 2006: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Center for the Study of the Novel), Stanford, USA
July-January 2007: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Taube Center for Jewish Studies), Stanford, USA
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Graduate Advisor, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University (present)
Member of the Academic Committee of ICON, the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival of Israel 2008- 2009
Lecturer at the Ofakim Program of Tel-Aviv University 2008- 2009
Member of the Sapir Award Committee for the best Israeli novel 2006
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:
1989
The International Conference on Women in American and Israeli Literature and Arts, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv
"Rappaccini's Monster"
1991
The 12th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts,
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"The Political Text in Soviet Science Fiction"
1993
Narrative: An International Conference,
The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Albany, New York, USA
"Paradox and Perversion"
1994
Narrative: An International Conference,
The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Vancouver, Canada
"The 19th-century Poetics of Race"
1995
The 16th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"The Monster Speaks"
1996
The 17th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts,
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"The Book of Blood: Construction of the Male Body"
1997
Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
"Luce Irigaray and the Fascist Body"
1998
Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
"Written in Blood: Serial Killing"
1999
The 20th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts,
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"Private Investigation: Utopia and Violence"
1999
Obscene Powers: Corruption, Coercion and Violence
An International Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
"Aliens Among Us: Fascism and Narrativity"
2000
Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies,
Vancouver, Canada
"The Plague of Utopias: Disease and the Apocalyptic Body"
2001
Inventions of Death: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis,
University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
"Between Death and Dying: Narratives of Post-Apocalypse"
2001
Who Is the Israeli? The Jerusalem Spinoza Institute Annual Conference,
Jerusalem, Israel
"On Danger of Definitions"
2002
Cities in Writing
Tel-Aviv University Symposium, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"City as Body from Dickens to Urban Fantasy"
2003
First World Congress of IASA,
Leiden, Holland
"Uncle Tom's Cabin in Russia and Israel" (a joint paper with Dr. Milette Shamir)
2003
Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Local/Global,
University of Notre-Dame, London, UK
"The Lost World and the Shape of the Past"
2004
Literary Beasts: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Animal Representation in Today's Literature
London Metropolitan University, London, UK
"Dog Star: Olaf Stapledon and the Boundaries of Humanity"
2005
Mobilis in Mobile: International Conference on Travel Writing
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
"Travels and Travails of Language in Asian-American Writing"
2006
Cultural Pilgrimages: Beyond Multiculturalism? Symposium
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Speaking in Tongues: Cultural Translation and the Problem of Multiculturalism"
2006
31st Annual meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
"Cities of Light and Darkness: A Tale of Two Utopias"
2007
Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations
Theory, Culture and Society 25th Anniversary Conference
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"The Big Brother Utopia"
2008
National Cityscapes Conference
Case Western University
Cleveland, OH, USA
"The Battlefield of Utopias: The Soviet City that Never Was"
2008
Time Beyond Borders: International Conference
Van Leer Institute/Haifa University
Haifa, Jerusalem, Israel
"Everyday Apocalypse"
2009
Dickens, Victorian Fiction, Uneasy Pleasures: International Conference
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
"'City of Dreadful Light': Dickens' Urban Apocalypses"
COMMISSIONED/GUEST LECTURES:
1997
Fulbright Lecture
International Symposium on Gender, Lewis and Clarke College, Portland, Oregon
"The Secret Body"
2003
Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel
"Cities of Light and Darkness"
2005
Department of English, Hong Kong University
Hong Kong, China
"Cities of Light and Darkness"
2005
Fulbright Conference "Writing Across Cultures"
Jerusalem, Israel
"Dreaming in Russian"
2006
Fulbright Symposium "How Others See Us"
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"To See (?) the Other"
2006
Department of English, Haifa University
Haifa, Israel
"Shapes of the Past and the Future"
2008
ICON (Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy) Academic Conference
Tel Aviv, Israel
"Soviet Science Fiction"
2008
Bezalel Institute
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Stanislaw Lem and the Cinema"
2009
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Stanford University
Stanford, USA
"Israel in Science Fiction/Science Fiction in Israel"
2009
Geophysics Department, Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Alien Evolution: Representations of Extraterrestrial Life in Science Fiction"
2009
Department of English, University of Macao
Macao, China
"The 'What If' of Atrocity: Alternate Histories of World War 2 and the Holocaust"
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:
1990
British Council Research Grant-in-Aid
1991-1993
Joseph Buchmann Doctoral Scholarship
1995
British Council Research Grant-in-Aid
1996
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
•1991-1996 International Society for the Fantastic in the Arts
•1993-1995 The Society for the Study of Narrative (International)
2000-2006 Society for Utopian Studies (International)
2006-present MLA (International)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Elana Gomel,
Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject
Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2003
M. Kaganskaya, Z. Bar-Sela, Elana Gomel
The Future of the Past: On Russian and Non-Russian Science Fiction (in Russian)
Moscow: The Russian State University of the Humanities Press, 2004.
אילנה גומל
אתם ואנחנו: להיות רוסים בישראל. תל-אביב: כנרת, זמורה-ביתן, 2006
Elana Gomel,
The Pilgrim Soul: Being Russian in Israel
Amherst: Cambria Press, 2009.
Elana Gomel
Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
London and New York: Continuum Press (forthcoming)
Refereed Articles in Journals
•1. "The Poetics of Censorship: Allegory as Form and Ideology in the Novels of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky", Science-Fiction Studies, Vol.22, Part 1 (1995), 87-106.
•2. "Escape from SF: Yvonne Howell's Apocalyptic Realism", Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 22, Part 3 (1995), 439-444.
•3. "Mystery, Apocalypse and Utopia: The Case of the Ontological Detective Story". Science-Fiction Studies, Vol.22, Part 3 (1995), 343-355.
•4. "The Body of Parts: Dickens and the Poetics of Synecdoche". The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol.26, Number1 (1996), 48-75.
•5. "The Tell-Tale Surface: Fashion and Gender in The Woman in White" (co-authored with Stephen Weninger), Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 25 (1997), 29-59.
•6. "Hard and Wet: Luce Irigaray and the Fascist Body", Textual Practice, Vol. 12 Issue 2 (1998), 199-223.
•7. "Written in Blood: Serial Killing and Narratives of Identity", Postidentity, Vol.2, Number 1 (1999), 24-71.
•8. "Science Fiction in Russia: From Utopia to New Age", Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 26 (1999), 435-441.
•9. "From Dr Moreau to Dr Mengele: The Biological Sublime", Poetics Today, Vol. 21, Number 2 (2000), 393-423.
•10. "Aliens Among Us: Fascism and Narrativity", The Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol.31, Number 1 (2000), 127-163.
•11. "The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body", Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol. 1, Winter 2001, 405-434.
•12. "Cronenberg, Greenaway and the Ideologies of Twinship" (co-authored with Stephen Weninger), Body and Society, Vol. 9, No.3 (September 2003), 19-35.
•13. "Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and the (Un)Death of the Author", Narrative, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2004), 74-92.
•14. "Romancing the Crystal: Utopias of Transparency and Dreams of Pain" (co-authored with Stephen Weninger), Utopian Studies 15.2 (2004), 65-91.
•15. "Gods Like Men: Soviet Science Fiction and the Utopian Self", Science- Fiction Studies 94 (no.31, part 3, 2004).
•16. "'Spirits in the Material World': Spiritualism and Identity in the Fin de Siecle", Victorian Literature and Culture 35 (2007), 189-213.
•17. "Lost and Found: The Lost World Novel and the Shape of the Past". Genre LX (Spring/Summer 2007), 103-127.
•18. "Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" Narrative Vol. 17, No.3 (May 2009), 334-352 (special issue on time and narrative).
•19. "Everyday Apocalypse: G. J. Ballard and the Ethics and Aesthetics of the End of Time". Partial Answers (forthcoming)
•20. "Posthumanity and Medical Ethics" European Legacy (special issue on medicine and the humanities; forthcoming
Refereed Articles in Books
"החייזר עם הטלאי הצהוב". עם שתי הרגליים עמוק בעננים: על פנטסיה ודמיון בספרות העברית. גרף, 2009
"'The Soul of This Man is in His Clothes': Violence, Fashion, and Postmoder Identity in American Psycho". In Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park. Naomi Mandel, ed., Forthcoming from Continuum Press.
"Genre". In The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, eds. Forthcoming from Routledge
Other publications: reviews
- Review of Leon Stover's Critical Edition of The First Men in the Moon by Herbert George Wells, Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2001, 272-275.
•2. Review of Richard Pawley's Secret City: The Emotional Life of Victorian Poet James Thomson (B.V.), Utopian Studies, Volume 12, No. 2, 2001, 355-357.
- Review of Timothy Weiss' Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia. Utopian Studies Volume 17, No. 1, 2006, 224-227.
- Review of Marlene Tromp's Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism and Sarah A. Willburn's Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writing.
- Victorian Studies Summer 2007 (49.4)
Other publications: occasional pieces
•1. "The Scarlet Letter: Israel as Myth and Reality" (in Hebrew), Nativ: Journal of Politics, Society and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 95 (November 2003), 47-51.
- "The Diseases of Zionism". London Jewish Chronicle, April 6, 2007.
- "Ballard's Apocalypse" (in Hebrew; electronic publication). Maarav: Art, Culture, Media (September 2007).
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Dr. Elana Gomel
ID Number: 017517046
Faculty: Humanities
Dept: English and American Studies
EDUCATION:
B.A. (cum laude) in English Literature
Tel-Aviv University
1984
M.A. (cum laude) in English Literature
Tel-Aviv University
1990
School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, USA
1994
Ph.D in the Humanities
Tel-Aviv University
1996
Post-doctoral studies
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
1996-1997
Title of Master's thesis: Woman as Monster: Images of Women in the Nineteenth-Century Fantastic.
Name of supervisor: Dr. Hana Wirth-Nesher
Title of Doctoral dissertation: Beyond the Looking-Glass: The Fantastic and the Poetics of Culture
Name of supervisor: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1997-2003: Lecturer, Department of English, Tel-Aviv University
2004 - 2006: Chair of the Department of English, Tel-Aviv University
2003 - present: Senior Lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University
VISITING APPOINTMENTS:
1996-1997: Visiting Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
September-October 2005: Visiting Scholar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
September -January 2006: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Center for the Study of the Novel), Stanford, USA
July-January 2007: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Taube Center for Jewish Studies), Stanford, USA
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Graduate Advisor, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University (present)
Member of the Academic Committee of ICON, the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival of Israel 2008- 2009
Lecturer at the Ofakim Program of Tel-Aviv University 2008- 2009
Member of the Sapir Award Committee for the best Israeli novel 2006
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:
1989
The International Conference on Women in American and Israeli Literature and Arts, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv
"Rappaccini's Monster"
1991
The 12th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts,
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"The Political Text in Soviet Science Fiction"
1993
Narrative: An International Conference,
The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Albany, New York, USA
"Paradox and Perversion"
1994
Narrative: An International Conference,
The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Vancouver, Canada
"The 19th-century Poetics of Race"
1995
The 16th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"The Monster Speaks"
1996
The 17th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts,
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"The Book of Blood: Construction of the Male Body"
1997
Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
"Luce Irigaray and the Fascist Body"
1998
Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
"Written in Blood: Serial Killing"
1999
The 20th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts,
Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
"Private Investigation: Utopia and Violence"
1999
Obscene Powers: Corruption, Coercion and Violence
An International Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
"Aliens Among Us: Fascism and Narrativity"
2000
Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies,
Vancouver, Canada
"The Plague of Utopias: Disease and the Apocalyptic Body"
2001
Inventions of Death: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis,
University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
"Between Death and Dying: Narratives of Post-Apocalypse"
2001
Who Is the Israeli? The Jerusalem Spinoza Institute Annual Conference,
Jerusalem, Israel
"On Danger of Definitions"
2002
Cities in Writing
Tel-Aviv University Symposium, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"City as Body from Dickens to Urban Fantasy"
2003
First World Congress of IASA,
Leiden, Holland
"Uncle Tom's Cabin in Russia and Israel" (a joint paper with Dr. Milette Shamir)
2003
Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Local/Global,
University of Notre-Dame, London, UK
"The Lost World and the Shape of the Past"
2004
Literary Beasts: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Animal Representation in Today's Literature
London Metropolitan University, London, UK
"Dog Star: Olaf Stapledon and the Boundaries of Humanity"
2005
Mobilis in Mobile: International Conference on Travel Writing
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
"Travels and Travails of Language in Asian-American Writing"
2006
Cultural Pilgrimages: Beyond Multiculturalism? Symposium
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Speaking in Tongues: Cultural Translation and the Problem of Multiculturalism"
2006
31st Annual meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
"Cities of Light and Darkness: A Tale of Two Utopias"
2007
Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations
Theory, Culture and Society 25th Anniversary Conference
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"The Big Brother Utopia"
2008
National Cityscapes Conference
Case Western University
Cleveland, OH, USA
"The Battlefield of Utopias: The Soviet City that Never Was"
2008
Time Beyond Borders: International Conference
Van Leer Institute/Haifa University
Haifa, Jerusalem, Israel
"Everyday Apocalypse"
2009
Dickens, Victorian Fiction, Uneasy Pleasures: International Conference
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
"'City of Dreadful Light': Dickens' Urban Apocalypses"
COMMISSIONED/GUEST LECTURES:
1997
Fulbright Lecture
International Symposium on Gender, Lewis and Clarke College, Portland, Oregon
"The Secret Body"
2003
Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel
"Cities of Light and Darkness"
2005
Department of English, Hong Kong University
Hong Kong, China
"Cities of Light and Darkness"
2005
Fulbright Conference "Writing Across Cultures"
Jerusalem, Israel
"Dreaming in Russian"
2006
Fulbright Symposium "How Others See Us"
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"To See (?) the Other"
2006
Department of English, Haifa University
Haifa, Israel
"Shapes of the Past and the Future"
2008
ICON (Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy) Academic Conference
Tel Aviv, Israel
"Soviet Science Fiction"
2008
Bezalel Institute
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Stanislaw Lem and the Cinema"
2009
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Stanford University
Stanford, USA
"Israel in Science Fiction/Science Fiction in Israel"
2009
Geophysics Department, Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Alien Evolution: Representations of Extraterrestrial Life in Science Fiction"
2009
Department of English, University of Macao
Macao, China
"The 'What If' of Atrocity: Alternate Histories of World War 2 and the Holocaust"
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:
1990
British Council Research Grant-in-Aid
1991-1993
Joseph Buchmann Doctoral Scholarship
1995
British Council Research Grant-in-Aid
1996
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
International Society for the Fantastic in the Arts
The Society for the Study of Narrative (International)
2000-2006 Society for Utopian Studies (International)
2006-present MLA (International)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Elana Gomel,
Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject
Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2003
M. Kaganskaya, Z. Bar-Sela, Elana Gomel
The Future of the Past: On Russian and Non-Russian Science Fiction (in Russian)
Moscow: The Russian State University of the Humanities Press, 2004.
אילנה גומל
אתם ואנחנו: להיות רוסים בישראל. תל-אביב: כנרת, זמורה-ביתן, 2006
Elana Gomel,
The Pilgrim Soul: Being Russian in Israel
Amherst: Cambria Press, 2009.
Elana Gomel
Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
London and New York: Continuum Press (forthcoming)
Refereed Articles in Journals
"The Poetics of Censorship: Allegory as Form and Ideology in the Novels of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky", Science-Fiction Studies, Vol.22, Part 1 (1995), 87-106.
"Escape from SF: Yvonne Howell's Apocalyptic Realism", Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 22, Part 3 (1995), 439-444.
"Mystery, Apocalypse and Utopia: The Case of the Ontological Detective Story". Science-Fiction Studies, Vol.22, Part 3 (1995), 343-355.
"The Body of Parts: Dickens and the Poetics of Synecdoche". The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol.26, Number1 (1996), 48-75.
"The Tell-Tale Surface: Fashion and Gender in The Woman in White" (co-authored with Stephen Weninger), Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 25 (1997), 29-59.
"Hard and Wet: Luce Irigaray and the Fascist Body", Textual Practice, Vol. 12 Issue 2 (1998), 199-223.
"Written in Blood: Serial Killing and Narratives of Identity", Postidentity, Vol.2, Number 1 (1999), 24-71.
"Science Fiction in Russia: From Utopia to New Age", Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 26 (1999), 435-441.
"From Dr Moreau to Dr Mengele: The Biological Sublime", Poetics Today, Vol. 21, Number 2 (2000), 393-423.
"Aliens Among Us: Fascism and Narrativity", The Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol.31, Number 1 (2000), 127-163.
"The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body", Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol. 1, Winter 2001, 405-434.
"Cronenberg, Greenaway and the Ideologies of Twinship" (co-authored with Stephen Weninger), Body and Society, Vol. 9, No.3 (September 2003), 19-35.
"Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and the (Un)Death of the Author", Narrative, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2004), 74-92.
"Romancing the Crystal: Utopias of Transparency and Dreams of Pain" (co-authored with Stephen Weninger), Utopian Studies 15.2 (2004), 65-91.
"Gods Like Men: Soviet Science Fiction and the Utopian Self", Science- Fiction Studies 94 (no.31, part 3, 2004).
"'Spirits in the Material World': Spiritualism and Identity in the Fin de Siecle", Victorian Literature and Culture 35 (2007), 189-213.
"Lost and Found: The Lost World Novel and the Shape of the Past". Genre LX (Spring/Summer 2007), 103-127.
"Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" Narrative Vol. 17, No.3 (May 2009), 334-352 (special issue on time and narrative).
"Everyday Apocalypse: G. J. Ballard and the Ethics and Aesthetics of the End of Time". Partial Answers (forthcoming)
"Posthumanity and Medical Ethics" European Legacy (special issue on medicine and the humanities; forthcoming
Refereed Articles in Books
"החייזר עם הטלאי הצהוב". עם שתי הרגליים עמוק בעננים: על פנטסיה ודמיון בספרות העברית. גרף, 2009
"'The Soul of This Man is in His Clothes': Violence, Fashion, and Postmoder Identity in American Psycho". In Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park. Naomi Mandel, ed., Forthcoming from Continuum Press.
"Genre". In The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, eds. Forthcoming from Routledge
Other publications: reviews
Review of Leon Stover's Critical Edition of The First Men in the Moon by Herbert George Wells, Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2001, 272-275.
Review of Richard Pawley's Secret City: The Emotional Life of Victorian Poet James Thomson (B.V.), Utopian Studies, Volume 12, No. 2, 2001, 355-357.
Review of Timothy Weiss' Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia. Utopian Studies Volume 17, No. 1, 2006, 224-227.
Review of Marlene Tromp's Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism and Sarah A. Willburn's Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writing.
Victorian Studies Summer 2007 (49.4)
Other publications: occasional pieces
"The Scarlet Letter: Israel as Myth and Reality" (in Hebrew), Nativ: Journal of Politics, Society and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 95 (November 2003), 47-51.
"The Diseases of Zionism". London Jewish Chronicle, April 6, 2007.
"Ballard's Apocalypse" (in Hebrew; electronic publication). Maarav: Art, Culture, Media (September 2007).
