ד"ר Esther Schupak

2014

Ph.D., English Literature

Bar-Ilan University

Dissertation: Gender and Julius Caesar: Performance, Listening Rhetoric, and Pedagogy

1995

M.A., English Literature: Rhetoric and Composition

University of Maryland College Park

1991

B.A.,  Interdisciplinary Studies: Writing and Business Administration

University of Maryland Baltimore County

summa cum laude

2020-current

Lecturer (tenure track)

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

Bar-Ilan University

2013-2020

Adjunct Lecturer

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

Bar-Ilan University

2025

"Dystopian Figurations of the Neoliberal Workplace: Blurring Boundaries." Science Fiction Studies 52.3 (2025): 401-430.

2025

“Shylock as Jew-Voice: Rhetorical Listening and Identifications in The Merchant of Venice.” Cahiers Élisabéthains 116.1 (2025): 3-23.

2024

“Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus.” The Explicator 82.3 (2024): 109-113.

2023

“Revolutionary Shakespeare: Julius Caesar and the Rhetorical Fashioning of Ideologies of Freedom” in Shakespeare at War, ed. Sonia Massai and Amy Lidster, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

2023

"Rhetorical Identification in Shakespeare’s Roman Republics." Shakespeare 19.3 (2023): 296-327.

2023

"Coriolanus and Failures of Listening." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 36.4 (2023): 474-77.

2023

“An Ultra-Orthodox Woman Performing Difference in Israeli Academia.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

36.5 (2023): 935-54.

2021

“Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment.” Shakespeare Survey 74 (2021): 69-80.

2019

“Listening Rhetoric in the Diverse Classroom: Suggestions for Praxis,” College Teaching 67.3 (2019): 196-204.

2019

“’I Grant I am a Woman’: Gender and Silence in Julius Caesar.”

Shakespeare 15.2 (2019): 107-120.

2019

“Performing Julius Caesar with Ultra-Orthodox Women”

Research in Drama Education 24.2 (2019): 155-172.

2018

"Redefining Censorship: Lessons Learned from Teaching The Merchant of Venice in Israel.” European Judaism 51.2 (2018): 134-142.

2018

"Shakespeare and Performance Pedagogy: Overcoming the Challenges." Changing English 25.2 (2018): 163-179.

2017

“Julius Caesar Across Borders: The Ethos of the American Republic." Literature and History 26.2 (2017): 157-176.

2016

“’Lend Me Your Ears’: Listening Rhetoric and Political Ideology in Julius Caesar.” Shakespeare Survey 69 (2016): 123-33.

2025

“The Seeds of Dystopia in Titus Andronicus”

mss, 36 pages

Utopian Studies

2025

“Asimov’s Epigrammatic Style”

mss, 12 pages

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews

2024

“Shylock in Suits:  Rhetorical Dissociation and The Merchant of Venice in Popular Culture”

mss, 28 pages

Submitted to Journal of Popular Culture

2024

“Titus Andronicus and Dystopian Film”

mss, 18 pages

2024

Rhetorical Listening, Identifications, and Ethopoeia in Shakespeare:

On the Page and in the Classroom

mss, 115 pages

2026

“Teaching Renaissance Literature with AI”

Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, February 19-21

2025

“AI Interrupted: Teaching with the Enemy”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Beer Sheva, February 5

2021

“Shakespeare and the Politics of Absence”

European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Athens, June 3-6

2020

“Listening”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Beer Sheva, February 3

2019

“Beyond Performance / Inside the Classroom: Interactive Workshops on the Teaching of Shakespeare”

European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Rome, July 9-12

2026

Roundtable: “Teaching Renaissance Literature with AI”

Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, February 19-21

2025

“Gender and Race in Antony and Cleopatra: The Aural Dimension”

European Shakespeare Research Association, Porto, July 9-12

Unable to attend due to travel disruptions (Iran War)

2025

“Titus Andronicus in Dystopian Film Adaptation”

Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Boston, March 19-22

2025

“Gendered Difference in Antony and Cleopatra: The Aural Dimension”

Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Boston, March 19-22

2025

“AI Interrupted: Teaching with the Enemy”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Beer Sheva, February 5

2024

“I Am Not Bid for Love”: Rhetorical Listening and Identifications in The Merchant of Venice

Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Denver, May 22-26

2024

“Titus Andronicus in Dystopian Film”

Shakespeare Association of America, Portland, April 10-13

2023

“Rhetorical Listening as a Pedagogical Orientation”

Minerva Pedagogy Conference, New York, July 31-August 3

2023

“Rhetorical Listening, Identification, and Ethopoeia in Shakespeare”

Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Pennsylvania, May 22-27

2023

“A Pedagogy of Hope: Listening Rhetoric and the Thesis Statement”

Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, February 15-18, cancelled due to illness

2022

“Political Change and Identification in Shakespeare’s Roman Republics”

Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Baltimore, May 26-29

2022

“The Rhetoric of Identification in Shakespeare’s Roman Republics”

Renaissance Society of America Conference, Dublin, March 30-April 2

2021

“Shakespeare’s Roman Plays in Performance in the Early American Republic”

British Shakespeare Association, online, August 5-7

2021

“Shakespeare’s Roman Dramas and the Culture of the American Colonies”

European Shakespeare Research Association Conference, Athens, June 3-6, changed to online

2021

“Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment”

Renaissance Society of America Conference, online, April 13-22

2021

“Listening Rhetoric and the Thesis Statement”

Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Seattle, April 7-10, Cancelled due to COVID-19

2020

“Shakespeare’s Roman Plays in Performance in the Early American Republic”

British Shakespeare Association Conference, Surrey, Cancelled due to COVID-19

2020

“Listening Rhetoric and the Thesis Statement”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Beer Sheva, February 3

2019

“Shakespeare and Language of Origin”

Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, College Park, Maryland, June 6-8

2019

“Relatable”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Tel Aviv, January 21

2018

“Listening Rhetoric as a Paradigm in the Israeli Classroom”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Ramat Gan, February 1

2017

“Teaching Shakespeare in Israel”

Shakespeare and the Jews, University College, London, March 28-30

2017

“In Pursuit of the Useful”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Haifa, February 8

2017

"Listening Rhetoric and the Diverse Classroom"

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, January 5-8

2016

“Implications of Listening Rhetoric for the Composition Classroom”

Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, April 6-9

2015

"An Analysis of the Efficacy of Performance Pedagogy"

Biannual Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, Worcester, England, June 29-July 2

2014

"Julius Caesar Across Borders: The Ethos of the American Republic"

Annual Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, May 22-26

2014

"The Role of Julius Caesar in American Education"

Graduate Symposium on Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 9

2013

"Performance Pedagogy: Advantages and Limitations"

Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Boston, November 21-24

2013

"The Literature Log: Alternatives to the Textbooks"

National Conference of the English Teachers' Association of Israel, Tel Aviv, July 9-10

2013

"From the Parents Television Council to Increase Mather: Contemporary Analogues to Opposition to the Early Modern Popular Theater"

Comparative Literature Conference, Long Beach, California, April 25-26

2019

“Embodying Difference in Israeli Academia”

Seventh International Conference on Teacher Education (MOFET Institute), Tel Aviv, June 24-26

2016

“Listening Rhetoric and Academic Writing Instruction”

Third International Conference on Academic Writing (Israel Forum for Academic Writing and the MOFET Institute), Tel Aviv, June 27-28

2025

“Artificial Intelligence and Academic Writing”

English as a Foreign Language Unit, Bar-Ilan University

March 3

2025

“Artificial Intelligence and Real Learning”

Center for Teaching and Learning, Bar-Ilan University

February 17

2024

"Artificial Intelligence and Real Learning”

Seminar on Artificial Intelligence: Bar-Ilan University

בינה מלאכותית יוצרת: מתודולוגיות חדשות במחקר והוראה במדעי האדם

December 4

2024

“AI in the Classroom”

Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Ramat Gan, March 19

2018

“Listening Rhetoric in the College Classroom”

Talpiot College faculty annual assembly

(in Hebrew)

2025

Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, online

Workshop: Television Rhetoric

2023

Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, University Park, Pennsylvania, May 22-27

Seminar: Listening Rhetoric

2020, 2021, 2022

Online paleography courses

2019

Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, College Park, Maryland, June 6-8

Seminar: Rhetorical Style

2025

Biannual Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America

2023

Research in Drama Education

2023

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

2022

Research in Drama Education

2022

Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication

2020

The Explicator

2025

Pedagogical Excellence and Innovation Award

2024

Pedagogical Innovation Grant

(to create an online writing course for the Faculty of the Humanities)

2023

Pedagogical Innovation Grant

2012

Rector's Prize

2010-2014

Presidential Fellowship for Outstanding Scholars

1991

Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

1990

Interdisciplinary Studies Award

1989-1991

Academic Honors

2014-2020

Lecturer (tenured)

Department of English Teacher-Training

Talpiot Academic College

2013-2017

Instructor

Zaidner Institute, Neve Yerushalayim

(Thomas Edison State College)

2000-2011

Head of English Department, English teacher

Bet Yaakov Ko Tomar, Bet Shemesh

1997-2005

Instructor, teacher education

Machon Bet Yaakov Lamorot, Jerusalem

1997-2001

English teacher

Bet Yaakov Batya, Jerusalem

1992-1996

English teacher

Bais Yaakov High School, Baltimore, Maryland

1994-1995

Instructor

Department of English/Education

University of Maryland Baltimore County

2026

From Aristotle to AI: Teaching Writing in a Digital World (graduate)

2024

Witchcraft in Literature and History

2023

Science Fiction Seminar (graduate)

2022

Shakespeare and Gender Seminar (graduate)

2020, 2024

Political Shakespeare Seminar (graduate)

2018-2019, 2024

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Popular Culture Seminar (graduate)

2018-2019, 2023

Rhetoric, Persuasion, and the Media

2016-2019

Seminar: Monsters in Literature and Culture

2013-2019

Academic Writing