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Dr. Chen Strass

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie


Campus Westend
Raum IG 6.555 (IG-Hauptgebäude)
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Kontakt: chen.shtrass@gmail.com

 

Academic Interests

  • Modern Hebrew literature
  • Space, vision and subjectivity in literature
  • Class, family and everyday life studies
  • Contemporary autobiographical writing
  • Israel and Zionism

Current Research Project

Hebrew Family Romances: The Bourgeois Family and the Desire for Normalcy in Modern Hebrew Literature

Short Biography

since 2020  Minerva Postdoctoral fellow; Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
2009-2020 Teaching fellow; The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2018-2020 Lecturer; Derech Ruach for the Promotion of Humanities in Israel, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2018-2020  Research fellow; `Remapping Israeli Literature with a Digitized Lexicon´, Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2016-2019 Associate curator, Shibush: The Agnon Exhibition, S.Y. Agnon House, Jerusalem
2016     Ph.D. in Hebrew literature; The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (under the supervision of Prof. Yigal Schwartz and Dr. Amir Banbaji)
2014 Research assistant and group coordinator; Minerva Humanities Center, Tel-Aviv University
2009 M.A. (Summa cum Laude) in Hebrew literature; The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (under the supervision of Prof. Yigal Schwartz and Dr. Anat Weissman)
2007-2009 Coordinator and editorial staff’s member; Mikan: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture Studies, Heksherim Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Nege

Selected Publications

“Space and Rhetoric in Yeshayahu Koren’s Prose Fiction,” accepted for publication in Criticism and Interpretation: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Culture (Bikoret u-Parshanut)

“Vision and Surface in Yeshayahu Koren’s Work,” accepted for publication in Mikan: Journal for Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Culture Studies (In Hebrew)

“The Formation of the Gaze and the Ocular Education in ´Musical Moment´ by Yehoshua Kenaz,” in C. Strass and K. Dotan (eds.), The Beauty of the Defeated: Critical Essays on Yehoshua Kenaz (Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva: Am Oved and Heksherim Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), 2017, 297-331

Chen Strass and Keren Dotan (eds.), The Beauty of the Defeated: Critical Essays on Yehoshua Kenaz (Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva: Am Oved and Heksherim Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) , 2017

“Space and Liminality in ´K'Or Yahel´ by Yehuda Yaari,” Dappim Lemehkar Besifrut 19 (2014), 44-73