Dr. Karin Berkman
Fields of Interest
Irish literature; South African poetry during apartheid and post-apartheid; Post-colonialism and literary theory; Race and gender in American and British poetry.
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EDUCATION
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2017 |
Ph.D., English Literature The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation: “The Poetics of Memory in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney” |
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1987 |
M.A., English Language and Literature University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thesis: “The Haunter and the Haunted: A Study of Memory and Detachment in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy” Granted with distinction |
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1982
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B.A. Honours, English Language and Literature University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Granted with Distinction
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1979-1981
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B.A. English Literature Granted with Distinction
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
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2017-2018
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Postdoctoral Researcher, European Research Council Project: “Apartheid- The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990.”
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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2020-2021
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Teaching Fellow Department of English Literature and Linguistics Bar-Ilan University Teaching Fellow Department of English The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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2012-2016
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Teaching Assistant Department. of English The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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2000-2017
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Adjunct Lecturer Department of Library and Information Science, Diploma of Library and Information Science. M. ED Library and Information Science, David Yellin College |
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CONFERENCE PAPERS |
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2021 |
“‘We took new stock of one another’ Tracy K Smith, Afrofuturism and Covid-19.” Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, February 1.
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2020 |
“Migration” Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Beer Sheva, February 3.
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2019 |
“Reading the Canon: Black South African Poets and the Colonial Curriculum.” Language and Education in Asymmetrical Contexts: Between Teaching, Text, and Pedagogy, The Hebrew University, June 27.
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2018 |
"Mandela's Earth: Literary Celebrity and the Figure of Mandela in Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize Address and Poetry” Celebrity and Protest in Africa and in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, University of Copenhagen, October 29-31.
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2018 |
“The Language Question” Keywords in African Studies Conference. Ben Gurion University. June 4-5.
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2016 |
“‘A Rapture and an Ache’: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ influence on the poetics of Seamus Heaney.” Hopkins: The Jerusalem Conference, May 15-18.
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2016 |
“Poetic and Political Accountability in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney" Journeys Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University.
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2014 |
“'Writers and Righters': Political and Poetic Activism in Seamus Heaney's 'The Flight Path.'” “The “Good” Book”: Graduate Symposium at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, April 27.
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2014 |
“The Dying Animal: the representation of the body of the parent in the elegies of Seamus Heaney and Margaret Atwood.” Graduate Students’ Conference. The Hebrew University, March 19.
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2013 |
“Heaney's elegies: a consideration of “Casualty.” Graduate Students’ Conference. The Hebrew University.
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AWARDS |
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2013 |
Dr. Gisela Gross and Edward Gross Doctoral Fellowship for Literature Research in the Department of English Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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1981
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Faculty of Arts Silver Medalist. A.A. Bradlow Merit Scholarship for English Studies.
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Courses
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RECENT COURSES
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2021 |
Irish Literature Academic Writing
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2020 |
South African Literature, 1948-1994
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2020 |
American Poetry and Political Extremity: From the Harlem Renaissance to 9/11
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2016
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Critical Theory
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Publications
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PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles |
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2020 |
"Literary Celebrity and Political Activism: Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Prize Lecture and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle." Critical Arts
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2020 |
"Translation and Untranslatability in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile." Scrutiny2
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2020 |
"Remember Sharpeville': Radical Commemoration in the Poetry of the Exiled South African Poets, Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile.” English in Africa
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Book Chapter |
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2020 |
"South African Homecomings." Nachexil/ Post-Exile. De Gruyter |
Last Updated Date : 21/08/2022
