Dr. Yaeli Greenblatt

Unit
Literature
Email
yaeli.greenblatt@gmail.com
    Fields of Interest

    The materiality of the modernist image, typography, illustrations and graphic novels.

    CV

    Education

    2014-2021: PhD in English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, supervisor: Professor Ruben Borg, Dissertation Title: “The TypoGraphic Novel: Visual Materiality and the Joycean Image”. Date of completion: February 2021.
     
    2012-2015: MA. (Magna cum Laude) in English research track, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, supervisor: Professor Ruben Borg.
     
    2009-2011: BA. (Magna cum Laude) in English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    Teaching

    2021: Bar-Ilan University, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Academic Writing.

    2016-2019: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Literatures, Topics in Poetics and Aesthetics Tutorial.

    2012-2014: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English Department, Introduction to Poetry Tutorial.

    2012-2014:Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English Department, Introduction to Fiction Tutorial

    Honors and Awards

    2019: Beckett Prize for outstanding research paper, Samuel Beckett Summer School, Trinity College Dublin & Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    2018 June-August: Visiting Scholar Fellowship, James Joyce Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland). 2016-2018: Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility PhD Fellowship Program, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    2015: Gisela Gross PhD Scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English Department.

    2014: Dickens Prize for outstanding research paper, University of California Santa Cruz & Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    2013: Beckett Prize for outstanding research paper, Samuel Beckett Summer School, Trinity College Dublin & Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    2012: Visiting Scholarship, James Joyce Summer School, Trieste, Italy.

    2011: Nabokov Prize for outstanding research paper, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

     

    Academic Activity

    2015-2020:The Jerusalem Finnegans Wake Reading Group, founder and organizer. Hosted by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2016-2017).

    2019 February: Digital Humanities Winter School, Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

    2014 September: Education and Miseducation: Graduate Conference, organizing committee (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English Department)

    2010-2011: Center for Literary Studies, Assistant to the Director (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

     

    Conference papers

    2019 August: “apl lpa: Nightlessons Anagrams,” Zerothruster: Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop (Zurich, Switzerland).

    2019 July: “Drawing Corkadoragha: Animal Setting in the Graphic Adaptation of An Béal Bocht,” Palimpsests: The V International Flann O’Brien Conference (UCD, Dublin).

    2019 January: “The Evolution of Joyce's Visual Language – From Notebook to Novel, ” Staff Seminar, English Department (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

    2018 August: “Creatures of the Night: Mythological Beasts of the Wake,” Funnaminal: Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop (Zurich, Switzerland).

    2018 June: “Materiality of the Joycean Image: John Vernon Lord’s Illustrations of the Wake,” The Art of James Joyce XXVI Symposium (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

    2018 May: “‘Hole’…‘Mound’: Birthing the Subject in Two Beckett Plays,” Samuel Beckett Study Day, Department of Comparative Literature (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

    2017 August: “‘The Tattered Cloak of his Perished Skin’: The Body as Costume in Works by Flann O’Brien,” IV International Flann O'Brien Conference (Salzburg, Austria).

    2017 August: “‘(?) sù ’ ’ fàç’e’] by pùnct!”: Typography and the Joycean Letter,” Postscrapt: Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop (Zurich, Switzerland).

    2016 June: “The TypoGraphic Novel: James Joyce, Chris Ware and the Materiality of the Image,” XXV International Joyce Symposium (University of London, England).

    2015 September: “Visual Transformations of Text in O’Brien and Joyce,” Metamorphoses: III International Flann O’Brien Conference (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic).

    2015 May: “Future Outlook: English Department Panel at Tmol Shilshom” (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

    2014 June: “Famished Ghosts: The Morality of Consumption in Dante and Joyce,” a long the krommerun: XXIV International James Joyce Symposium (Utrecht, Netherlands).

     

    Publications

    Publications

    Scientific Papers:

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. “‘The Tattered Cloak of his Perished Skin’: Body as Costume in Works by Flann O’Brien”. In Gallows Humour, ed. Ruben Borg and Paul Fagan (Cork: Cork University Press, 2020), pp. 131-145.

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. ‘“Our Eyes Demand Their Turn”: The Materiality of the Joycean Image and Illustrations of Finnegans Wake.’ In Joyce and the Arts, ed. Emma-Louise Silva et al. European Joyce Studies, volume 29 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020), pp. 151–65.

    Accepted for publication:

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. “‘Sentence First Verdict Afterwards’: Lewis Carroll, Vladimir Nabokov and the Fragmented Body,” Modernism in Wonderland, ed. John Morgenstern and Michelle Witen. Bloomsbury Press.

    Submitted:

    Greenblatt, Yaeli.“Drawing Corkadoragha: Animal Vulnerability in An Béal Bocht and its Graphic Adaptation,” Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Animals, Environments, Machines, ed. Katherine Ebury et al. Volume under review.

     

    Other Publications:

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. “Catalogue text.” In The Echo Is Where: Lots of Fun with Finnegans Wake (Art Book) by Peter O’Brien (Canada: Carbon Press, 2019).

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. “Flann Festspiele: A Report on ‘Acting Out’: IV International Flann O’Brien Conference.” In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, ed. Daniel Curran and Eimear Thornton, volume 4.1. (2018). pp. 64-68.

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. ‘“A Postcard from Zurich”: A Report on the 2017 Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop, 30 July – 5 August 2017’. In James Joyce Quarterly, volume 53, no. 3–4 (2018): pp. 192–95.

    Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Translated by Yotam Benshalom. Afterword by Ruben Borg and Yaeli Greenblatt. Jerusalem: Carmel Press, 2016.

    Greenblatt, Yaeli. "The 16th Annual Trieste James Joyce Summer School: Seaside Joyce." James Joyce Literary Supplement, volume 27, no. 1 (2013): pp. 11.

     

    Last Updated Date : 24/08/2022