Nurit Buchweitz (

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: נורית בוכויץ) is the Dean of the Faculty of Society and Culture at

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, where she has lectured since 1994 in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and the English department.

Education

Buchweitz earned her BA and MA from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

in Poetics and General Literature. Buchweitz completed her Ph.D. in 2001 in Comparative Literature at School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. She was awarded the

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Foundation Prize for Modern Hebrew Literature Excellence in Dissertation Research at Tel Aviv University. Additionally, she holds a teaching certificate from the School of Education at Tel Aviv University.

Career

Buchweitz's main field of research is late-modernist and

Postmodernist literature Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, and intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues. This style of experimenta ...

in English, French and Hebrew. She focuses on twenty-first century writing and

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, postmodern poetics and theory, and has published extensively on

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’s prose,

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’s poetry and prose,

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’s oeuvre, as well as children and youth literature and postmodernist Israeli poetry. Buchweitz has lectured internationally and was a

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and

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. She has participated in and organized numerous conferences domestically and internationally. At

, Professor Buchweitz was chair of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative literature between 2008–2013 and since 2015, the Dean of the Faculty of Society and Culture. She also served as Chair of the Honors Program, Chair of the Humanities Cluster and Chair of the Academic Council in the Faculty of Society and Culture. Also at Beit Berl College, Buchweitz initiated a three-year program addressing contact between

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and

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

, including Mizrahi literature in Israel and minor literature (Arab authors who write in Hebrew), in collaboration with the Arab Academic Institute of Education. Buchweitz was co-editor of ''Mifgeshey Tarbut'' (Cultural Encounters), a Hebrew academic journal dedicated to multi- and inter-cultural research.

Publications

Buchweitz is the author or editor of five books and more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. She is a member of the professional associations MLA and NAPH and is an active reviewer in international refereed journals.

Books

* ''Permit to Pass: Generation Shift, Meir Wiezeltier and the Poetry of the 1960s'' (In Hebrew). Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2008 * ''In Others Words: Studies in Hebrew and Arabic Literature'' (In Hebrew), Resling Publishing 2010 (with Abed Alrachman Marii and Alon Fragman) * ''Sensational Visual Pleasures: The Phallic Eye''.

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2014 (with Gilad Padva) * ''An Officer of Civilization: The Poetics of Michel Houellebecq''.

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2015 * ''Intimate Relationships in Literature, Cinema and the Arts''. Palgrave Macmillan 2017 (with Gilad Padva)

References

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