Chaim
Noy

Sapir College
Ruth Meltzer Distinguished FellowshipNancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship

Research Topic

Inscribed Jewish Performances in Visitor Books

Bio

Chaim Noy is Senior Lecturer at Sapir College in Israel. His publications include A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli Backpackers (2007), and “Mediation Materialized: The Semiotics of a Visitor Book at an Israeli Commemoration Site,” (Critical Studies in Media Communication 25.2 [2008]: 175–195). At the Katz Center, Noy will explore visitors’ books in Israeli pilgrimage sites.

Fellowship

2011–2012

Applying an interdisciplinary approach to the richness and diversity of travel writing.