Orian
Zakai
Orian Zakai
Research Topic
The Israeli Organ: Identity, Emotion, and Embodiment after October 7
Bio
Orian Zakai is an associate professor of Hebrew and Israeli literature and culture at George Washington University in Washington DC focusing on issues of gender and nation, intersectionality, and embodiment. She has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. Zakai is also a novelist and a poet. Her Hebrew novel Nefilat Sukar (Sugar Crash) came out in 2024 with Keter Books. Her poetry has appeared in various Israeli literary journals, including Ho!, Granta, Moznayim and the Tel Aviv Review of Books.
Zakai received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Selected publications
Fiction of Gender: Women, Femininity and the Zionist Imagination (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).
“Paths of Honey: Jonathan Son of Saul in Hebrew Women’s Queer Politics,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 43.1 (2024): 69–90.
