Shachar Levanon is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He holds an MA in Hebrew literature with a specialization in Yiddish literature from Ben-Gurion University. His MA thesis is a study of the poetry of Avot Yeshurun. Levanon’s current project explores urbanism, multilingualism, and cultural identity in American literature written in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. His dissertation brings together spatial theory, urban semiotics, and cultural geography by looking at the literary ecosystem of New York City.
MA, Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2017
BA, Psychology and Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, cum laude, 2014
Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Modernism and Modernity; Poetry and Poetics; Spatial and Critical Theory; Phenomenology; Psychoanalysis; Urbanism and the City; Multilingualism.
Teaching assistant, Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation: Image of the City, Prof. Gold, Spring 2021
Teaching assistant, Modern Middle Eastern Literatures in Translation, Profs. Gold, Fakhreddine, Shams, and Onder, Spring 2020
Instructor, Great Books, Dr. Shaul Setter & Dr. Hagai Dagan, Sapir College, 2016-2018
Teaching assistant, Masterpieces in World Literature, Dr. Anat Weisman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2014
Review of Reshtlekh (The Remaining Left), Isaac Bashevis Singer, Haaretz, November 2016