ד"ר Esther Schupak
תחומי עניין
Shakespeare; rhetoric; pedagogy; science fiction.
קורות חיים
Esther B. Schupak
Curriculum Vitae
May 2026
Nachal Revivim 21, apt. 7
Ramat Bet Shemesh 99641
Israel
Tel.: (02) 999-1723
Email: yebschupak@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2014 | Ph.D., English Literature Bar-Ilan University Dissertation: Gender and Julius Caesar: Performance, Listening Rhetoric, and Pedagogy
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2009
| Teaching License, Department of Education, State of Israel |
1995 | M.A., English Literature: Rhetoric and Composition University of Maryland College Park
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1991 | B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies: Writing and Business Administration University of Maryland Baltimore County summa cum laude
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CURRENT PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2020-current | Lecturer (tenure track) Department of English Literature and Linguistics Bar-Ilan University
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2013-2020 | Teaching Fellow Department of English Literature and Linguistics Bar-Ilan University
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2025
| Pedagogical Excellence and Innovation Award |
2024 | Pedagogical Innovation Grant (to create an online writing course for the Faculty of the Humanities)
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2023
| Pedagogical Innovation Grant |
2012 | Rector's Prize
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2010-2014 | Presidential Fellowship for Outstanding Scholars
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1991 | Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
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1990 | Interdisciplinary Studies Award
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1989-1991 | Academic Honors
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PUBLICATIONS
2026 | "The Seeds of Dystopia in Titus Andronicus." Utopian Studies 37.1 (2026): 2-22.
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2025 | “Asimov’s Epigrammatic Style.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025) 1–5.
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2025 | "Dystopian Figurations of the Neoliberal Workplace: Blurring Boundaries." Science Fiction Studies 52.3 (2025): 401-430.
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2025
| “Shylock as Jew-Voice: Rhetorical Listening and Identifications in The Merchant of Venice.” Cahiers Élisabéthains 116.1 (2025): 3-23.
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2024
| “Caesar’s Hands in Titus Andronicus.” The Explicator 82.3 (2024): 109-113.
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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.
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2023 | "Rhetorical Identification in Shakespeare’s Roman Republics." Shakespeare 19.3 (2023): 296-327.
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2023 | "Coriolanus and Failures of Listening." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 36.4 (2023): 474-77.
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2023 | “An Ultra-Orthodox Woman Performing Difference in Israeli Academia.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36.5 (2023): 935-54.
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2021 | “Teaching Shakespeare with Performance Pedagogy in an Online Environment.” Shakespeare Survey 74 (2021): 69-80.
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2019 | “Listening Rhetoric in the Diverse Classroom: Suggestions for Praxis,” College Teaching 67.3 (2019): 196-204.
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2019 | “’I Grant I am a Woman’: Gender and Silence in Julius Caesar.” Shakespeare 15.2 (2019): 107-120.
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2019 | “Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women performing gender in Julius Caesar.” Research in Drama Education 24.2 (2019): 155-172.
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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.
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2017 | “Julius Caesar Across Borders: The Ethos of the American Republic." Literature and History 26.2 (2017): 157-176.
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2016 | “’Lend Me Your Ears’: Listening Rhetoric and Political Ideology in Julius Caesar.” Shakespeare Survey 69 (2016): 123-33.
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In Press
2025 | “Shylock in Suits: Rhetorical Dissociation and The Merchant of Venice in Popular Culture” mss, 28 pages Journal of Popular Culture
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Under Review
2026 | “Asimov’s Foundational Conversation with History” Submitted to Extrapolation mss, 28 pages
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“Teaching with the Enemy: Using Custom GPTs to Develop Analytical Skills” Submitted to Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance mss, 32 pages
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Invited Chapter under Review
2024 | “Titus Andronicus and Dystopian Film” mss, 18 pages
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2026 | Teaching and Assessing Shakespeare with AI
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CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
CONFERENCE PAPERS
CONFERENCE POSTERS
2019 | “Embodying Difference in Israeli Academia” Seventh International Conference on Teacher Education (MOFET Institute), Tel Aviv, June 24-26
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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
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INVITED TALKS
2025 | “Artificial Intelligence and Academic Writing” English as a Foreign Language Unit, Bar-Ilan University March 3
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2025 | “Artificial Intelligence and Real Learning” Center for Teaching and Learning, Bar-Ilan University February 17
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2024 | "Artificial Intelligence and Real Learning” Seminar on Artificial Intelligence: Bar-Ilan University בינה מלאכותית יוצרת: מתודולוגיות חדשות במחקר והוראה במדעי האדם December 4
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2024 | “AI in the Classroom” Conference on the Study of English Literatures in Israel, Ramat Gan, March 19
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2018 | “Listening Rhetoric in the College Classroom” Talpiot College faculty annual assembly (in Hebrew)
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DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2024-current | Coordinator, M.A. Literature, with a concentration in teaching English
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2020-current | Undergraduate Admissions Committee
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2020-current | Academic Honesty Committee
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2017-current | Coordinator, Academic Writing
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2025 | Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, online Workshop: Television Rhetoric
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2023 | Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, University Park, Pennsylvania, May 22-27 Seminar: Listening Rhetoric
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2020, 2021, 2022
| Online paleography courses
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2019 | Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, College Park, Maryland, June 6-8 Seminar: Rhetorical Style
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PEER REVIEW
2025 | Biannual Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
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2023 | Research in Drama Education
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2023
| Journal of Contemporary Ethnography |
2022 | Research in Drama Education
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2022 | Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication
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2020 | The Explicator
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PRIOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014-2020 | Lecturer (tenured) Department of English Teacher-Training Talpiot Academic College
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2013-2017 | Instructor Zaidner Institute, Neve Yerushalayim (Thomas Edison State College)
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2000-2011 | Head of English Department, English teacher Bet Yaakov Ko Tomar, Bet Shemesh
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1997-2005 | Instructor, teacher education Machon Bet Yaakov Lamorot, Jerusalem
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1997-2001 | English teacher Bet Yaakov Batya, Jerusalem
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1992-1996 | English teacher Bais Yaakov High School, Baltimore, Maryland
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1994-1995 | Instructor Department of English/Education University of Maryland Baltimore County
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SOME RECENT COURSES
2026
| From Aristotle to AI: Teaching Writing in a Digital World (graduate) |
2024 | Witchcraft in Literature and History
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2023 | Science Fiction Seminar (graduate)
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2022 | Shakespeare and Gender Seminar (graduate)
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2020, 2024 | Political Shakespeare Seminar (graduate)
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2018-2019, 2024
| Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Popular Culture Seminar (graduate)
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2018-2019, 2023
| Rhetoric, Persuasion, and the Media
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2016-2019
| Seminar: Monsters in Literature and Culture |
2013-2019 | Academic Writing
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TEACHING AREAS
Shakespeare
Rhetoric
Literature
Writing
Science Fiction
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America
European Shakespeare Research Association
Shakespeare Association of America
Renaissance Society of America
מחקר
Shakespeare; rhetoric; pedagogy; science fiction.
פירסומים
PUBLICATIONS
| 2026 | "The Seeds of Dystopia in Titus Andronicus." Utopian Studies 37.1 (2026): 2-22.
|
| 2025 | “Asimov’s Epigrammatic Style.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025) 1–5.
|
| 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 | “Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women performing gender in Julius Caesar.” 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.
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תאריך עדכון אחרון : 17/05/2026
