Lital
Levy
Princeton University
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship
Research Topic
The Uncanny and the Unconscious in Cross Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Experience
Bio
Lital Levy is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She teaches courses in Hebrew and Arabic literatures, world literature, and critical theory. Her research encompasses Hebrew, Arabic, and Anglophone literatures and cultures, with special interest in zones of contact between Arabic and Hebrew.
Levy earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University and the Yiddish Book Center.
Selected publications
- The Jewish Nahda: An Arab-Jewish Intellectual History (Stanford University Press, forthcoming)
- Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press, 2014)
