ד"ר Esther Schupak

יחידה
Literature
טלפון
דוא"ל
Ester-B.Schupak@biu.ac.il
משרד
062
שעות קבלה
Monday 9:00-10:00 and by appointment
    תחומי עניין

    Shakespeare; pedagogy; rhetoric and composition, listening rhetoric; gender; performance studies; science fiction.

     

    קורות חיים

    Esther B. Schupak

    Curriculum Vitae

    June 2022

     

    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

     

    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

     

     

    CURRENT PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

     

    2020-current

    Lecturer

    Department of English Literature and Linguistics

    Bar-Ilan University

     

    2013-2020

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Department of English Literature and Linguistics

    Bar-Ilan University

     

     

    PUBLICATIONS

     

    In press

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

     

    2022

    "Rhetorical Identification in Shakespeare’s Roman Republics." Shakespeare (2022): 1-32.

     

    2022

    "Coriolanus and Failures of Listening." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2022): 1-4.

     

    2021

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

     

    2021

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

    (2021): 1-20.

     

    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.

     

     

     

    Invited Chapters in Preparation

     

    2022

    “Teaching Hamlet: From Textual Practice to Digital Tools”

     

     

     

     

    Book in Preparation

     

    2021

    Shakespeare’s Political Drama and the Ethos of the American Republic

     

     

    CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED

     

    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

     

     

    CONFERENCE PAPERS

     

    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

     

    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

     

     

     

    CONFERENCE POSTERS

     

    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 Avivi, June 27-28

     

     

     

    INVITED TALKS

     

    2018

    “Listening Rhetoric in the College Classroom”

    Talpiot College faculty annual assembly

    (in Hebrew)

     

     

    PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

     

    2020, 2021, 2022

     

    Online paleography courses

     

    2019

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

     

     

    PEER REVIEW

     

    2022

    Research in Drama Education

     

    2022

    Conference on College Composition and Communication

     

    2020

    The Explicator

     

     

    AWARDS AND HONORS

     

    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

     

     

    PRIOR TEACHING EXPERIENCE

     

    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

     

     

    SOME RECENT COURSES

     

    2022

    Shakespeare and Gender (graduate)

     

    2020-2021

    Political Shakespeare (graduate)

     

    2018-2019

    Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Popular Culture (graduate)

     

    2018-2019

    Rhetoric, Persuasion, and the Media

     

    2017-2019

     

    Dramatic Reading (methodology)

    2017-2019

    Introduction to Rhetoric (online)

     

    2016-2019

    Shakespeare and Film

     

    2016-2019

     

    Seminar: Monsters in Literature and Culture

    2014-2019

    Children’s Literature

     

    2013-2019

    Academic Writing

     

    2016-2017

    Fundamentals of Speech and Rhetoric

     

    2016-17

    Shakespeare Around the World (graduate)

     

     

    TEACHING AREAS

             

    Shakespeare

    Rhetoric

    Literature

    Writing

     

    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; pedagogy; rhetoric and composition, listening rhetoric; gender; performance studies.

    פרסומים

    In press

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

     

    2022

    "Rhetorical Identification in Shakespeare’s Roman Republics." Shakespeare (2022): 1-32.

     

    2022

    "Coriolanus and Failures of Listening." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2022): 1-4.

     

    2021

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

     

    2021

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

    (2021): 1-20.

     

    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.

     

     

    תאריך עדכון אחרון : 06/08/2023