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CURRICULUM VITAE
 
Tamar S. Hess
Sidney and Betty Sarah Berg Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Language
Updated: February 2012
 
 
E-mail address: tamar.hess@mail.huji.ac.il
 
 
EDUCATION
(in chronological order)
 
 
1989        The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew Literature and
            Interdisciplinary Program, BA, magna cum laude
 
1995    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Topic: Images of Femininity in
     Third Aliya Literature, MA, Summa cum laude
 
2003        The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Topic: Autobiographical             
            Writings by Women of the Second Aliya, Ph.D., Advisors: Prof. Yigal
            Schwartz and Dr. Ruth Ginsburg.
 
 
 
 APPOINTMENTS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
(in chronological order)
 
 
1990-1992: Teaching assistant at the Department of Hebrew Literature,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 
1995:  Adjunct Teacher at The Lafer Center of Gender Studies,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 
                        1995: Instructor at the Department of Hebrew literature,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 
2004 - 2007:  Mandel Postdoctoral Fellow at Scholion Interdisciplinary Research
                       Center in Jewish Studies.
 
October 2005: Lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

April 2013: Senior lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

October 2014: Head of the Center for Literary Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MEMBERSHIP IN A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
 
Association of Jewish Studies (since 2005)
 
Modern Language Association (since 2004)
 
 
 
RESEARCH GRANTS
 
A. FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
 
1991, Horowitz Award for Seminar Papers
1992, Zipora Klauzner Award for Seminar Papers
1996-1997, Feinsud-Sukenik Scholarship from the Lafer Center of Gender Studies,
            The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1997/8-2000, Vatat Nathan Rotenstreich Scholarship, The Hebrew University of
            Jerusalem
2001, Lavon Award, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of
            Jerusalem 
2001, Katz Award at the Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of    Jerusalem 2002, “Herzl Fellow”, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The
            Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
2002, Cherrick Award at the Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of          Jerusalem 
2003-2004, Moritz and Charlotte Warburg Prize in Jewish Studies, Postdoctoral
            Scholarship at the Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of
            Jerusalem
2004-2007, Mandel Fellow at the Scholion Center at the Hebrew University of
            Jerusalem 
2004, Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of
Pennsylvania (declined)
2004, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award
2005-2006, The Ignatz Bubis Research Award 
2007-2008, The Golda Meir Award at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 
B. RESEARCH GRANTS
 
2009 – Two year research grant from the Israel Science Foundation for two years for
 the project: Readings in Modern Hebrew Autobiography: Scenes in the Life of a Genre
 
TEACHING AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
 
Courses taught in the last 5 years
 
  • Bachelor's degree courses
 
Orientalism and Postcolonialism in Modern Hebrew Literature
 
David Fogel – The Works
 
      The collective voice in Hebrew Autobiography
 
Elements of Narrative Fiction
 
      Israeli Poetry 1950-1980
     
      Modernism and Gender in Hebrew Poetry
    
      Hebrew Narrative Fiction in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction
 
      Parents in Israeli Autobiography
      
      The Female Body in Hebrew Fiction before 1950
    
      Dahlia Ravikovitch’s Oeuvre
 
 
 
  • Master's degree courses
 
 
Feminism in Hebrew Poetry: Kafri, Zarchi, Chalfi and Bejerano
 
Hebrew Cultural Creation in Ottoman Palestine
 
Immigrants and Immigration in Modern Hebrew Literature
 
Gender and Modernism in Hebrew Poetry
 
Y.H Brenner: A Monograph
 
“One is Not Born a Man”: Gender and Nation in Modern Hebrew Literature (at the Rothberg International School)
 
Yehushua Knaz’s Oeuvre  
 
Autobiography and the Revolving Door Question
 
Lea Goldberg: Her Poetry, Fiction and Essays