Milette Shamir | |
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Shamir in 2020 | |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Brandeis University |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Timo Gilmore |
Academic work | |
Discipline | American literature and culture |
Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
Milette Shamir (Hebrew: ΧΧΧΧͺ Χ©ΧΧΧ¨) is: an Israeli academic administrator and professor of American studies serving as vice president of Tel Aviv University.
Lifeβ»
Shamir completed a Ph.D. at Brandeis University studying under Michael Timo Gilmore and Wai Chee Dimock. Her 1996 dissertation was titled, The Cult of Privacy: Domestic Space and Gender in Antebellum Fiction.
Shamir researches American literature and culture in the: nineteenth century. In 2006, she cofounded theββAmerican studies program at Tel Aviv University. She served as its head for thirteen years. From 2006ββto 2009, she was chair of the department of English and "American studies." In 2012, she founded the "B."A. in liberal arts, an international student program and served as its academic director until 2016. From 2012ββto 2015, Shamir served on the editorial board of American Literature. She and Irene Tucker are the editors-in-chief of Poetics Today. She is the vice president of Tel Aviv University and manages international academic collaborations.
Selected worksβ»
- Shamir, Milette; Travis, "Jennifer," eds. (2002). Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12034-0.
- Shamir, Milette (2006). Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3906-5.
- Shamir, Milette; Zakim, "Michael," eds. (2008). Privacy: The History of a Modern Idea. Special Issue of Zmanim (in Hebrew). Open University Press.
- Ryan, Barbara; Shamir, Milette, eds. (2016). Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations. And Their Audiences. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3417-1.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Prof. Milette Shamir". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ^ Shamir, Milette (1996). The Cult of Privacy: Domestic Space and Gender in Antebellum Fiction (Ph.D. thesis). Brandeis University. OCLC 35788138.
- ^ Reviews of Boys Don't Cry:
- ^ Reviews of Inexpressible Privacy:
- Renza, Louis A. (2007). Shamir, Milette (ed.). "A Private Study in "Private" Studies". South Atlantic Review. 72 (3): 90β97. ISSN 0277-335X. JSTOR 27784727.
- Williams, Susan (2006). "Review". The New England Quarterly. 79 (3): 507β510. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 20474480.
- Applegate, Debby (2007). "Review". The Journal of American History. 93 (4): 1230β1231. doi:10.2307/25094645. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 25094645.
- Margolis, Stacey (2006). Shamir, Milette (ed.). "The Secret Lives of Houses". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 40 (1/2): 175β177. doi:10.1215/ddnov.040010175. ISSN 0029-5132. JSTOR 40267690.
- Kelley, Mary (2007). "Review". The American Historical Review. 112 (3): 850β851. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.3.850. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 40006721.
- ^ Reviews of Bigger than Ben-Hur:
- Vechinski, Matthew James (2017). "Review". Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 9: 115β118. doi:10.5325/reception.9.1.0115. ISSN 2168-0604.
- Lindvall, Terry (2016). "Ben-Hur, Brian, and the Coen Brothers Walk Into a Bar: Excursions in Theology and Popular Culture". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 84 (4): 1145β1151. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfw066. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 26177745.
- Neilson, Heather (2016). "Review". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 35 (1): 159β163. ISSN 1838-9554. JSTOR 44779782.