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CURRICULUM VITAE
Gilead Morahg
Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Literature
Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
University of Wisconsin
1342 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706-1558
E-mail: gmorahg@wisc.edu
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Executive Vice President, National Association of Professors of
Hebrew
Fellow, University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy
Officer, National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught
Languages
Board, Heksherim Research Center for Jewish and Israeli Literature and
Culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Editorial Board, Mikan, a scholarly journal for the
study of Hebrew literature published by the Heksherim Center in Israel.
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY POSITIONS
1987-1993 Chairman, Department
of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, UW-Madison
1987-1997 Associate Editor, Hebrew
Studies
1991-1993 Director, UW-Madison
Center for Jewish Studies
1991-1993 President, National
Association of Professors of Hebrew
1995-1997 President, National
Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages
1997-1998 Chair, College of Letters
and Science Humanities Division Committee
1999-2000 Chair, Steering Committee
for Chancellor’s Initiative on Language Learning and Teaching with
Technology
1999-2001 Director, UW-Madison
Global Language, Literature and Culture Forum
1999-2004 Chairman, Department of
Hebrew and Semitic Studies, UW-Madison
PUBLICATIONS
“On the Way to Salvation in Henderson the Rain King” A critical Afterword to the Hebrew edition of Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King. Sifriyat Poalim (Tel Aviv, 1978) pp. 287-298.
“The Art of Dr. Tamkin: Matter and Manner in Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day.” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 25 (Spring, 1979), pp. 103-116. Anthologized in Saul Bellow, ed. Harold Bloom (New Haven, 1987), pp. 147-160.
“Outraged Humanism: The Fiction of A.B. Yehoshua.” Hebrew Annual Review, Vol. 3 (1979), pp. 141-155.
“Affirmative Structure in A.B. Yehoshua’s The Lover.” Hebrew Studies, Vol. 20-21 (1979-80), pp. 98-106.
“Hebrew on Campus: Patterns and Prospects. Hebrew Studies, Vol. 21 (1981), pp. 85-91.
“Reality and Symbol in the Fiction of A.B. Yehoshua.” Prooftexts, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1982), pp. 179-196.
“Teaching Hebrew Literature to Non-Native Speakers.” Hed Haulpan, (Israel) Vol. 41 (1982), pp. 17-20. (Reprinted in University Teaching of Modern Hebrew, ed. Raphael Nir. International Center for Jewish Civilization (Jerusalem, 1985).
“Approaching Israeli Fiction,” University Teaching of Modern Hebrew, ed. Raphael Nir. International Center for Jewish Civilization (Jerusalem, 1985), pp. 121-144. With Edna Coffin.
“Piercing the Shimmering Bubble: David Shahar’s The Palace of Shattered Vessels.” AJS Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Fall, 1985), pp. 211-234.
“New Images of Arabs in Israeli Fiction.” Prooftexts, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1986), pp. 147-162.
“Teaching Hebrew Literature to American Undergraduates.” Methodology in the Academic Teaching of Judais, ed. Zev Garber. University Press of America (New York, 1987), pp. 145-164.
“Cross Cultural Aspects of Modern Hebrew Literature.” Modern Hebrew Literature, ed. Leon I. Yudkin. Markus Wiener (New York, 1987), pp. 77-94.
“Compassion and Killing: Jews and Arabs in Israeli Literature [Hebrew]. Moznaim, Vol. 61, No. 5-6 (1987), pp. 15-21.
“Facing the Wilderness: God and Country in the Fiction of A.B. Yehoshua.” Prooftexts, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1988), pp. 311-331.
“A Symbolic Psyche: The Structure of Meaning in A.B. Yehoshua’s Flood Tide.” Hebrew Studies, Vol. 29 (1988), pp. 81-100.
“The Arab As ‘Other’ in Israeli Fiction.” Middle East Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Fall, 1989), pp. 35-40.
“Hebrew on Campus: Student Motivations and Expectations.” Shofar, Vol. 9, No. 3, (Spring 1991), pp. 55-69.
“Modern Hebrew on Campus: Figures and Facts.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education, Vol. 4, No. 2, (1991), pp. 5-7.
“From Madness On To Sanity: A.B. Yehoshua’s Shifting Perspective on the Diaspora.” Shofar, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Fall, 1992), pp. 50-60.
“A.B. Yehoshua: Fictions of Zion and Diaspora,” Israeli Writers Consider the “Outsider” ed. Leon I Yudkin (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993), pp. 118-131.
“Language is Not Enough.” Hebrew in America, ed. Alan Mintz (Wayne State University Press, 1993), pp. 187-208.
“Subverting Dystopia: Yitzhak Ben-Ner’s Fiction of the Future.” Prooftexts Vol. 13, No. 3 (September, 1993), pp. 269-287.
“Betraying the Cause: Amos Oz’s Panther in the Basement.” Modern Hebrew Literature Vol. 17, (Fall/Winter, 1996), pp. 29-42.
“Breaking Silence: Israel’s New Literature of the Holocaust.” The
Boom in Contemporary Israeli Literature, ed. Alan Mintz, New
England University Press. (Hanover and London, 1997), pp. 142-183.
“The Power of Cliches: Amos Oz’s Panther in the Basement.”
[in Hebrew]. Itton 77, Vol. 220 (June, 1998), pp. 20-21, 41.
“Who Am I: David Grossman’s The Zigzag Child.” Modern Hebrew Literature, Vol 20-21, (1998), pp. 91.93.
“Liberating the Camps: The Concentrationary Experience in Recent Israeli Literature.” Remembrance, Repentance, Reconciliation, ed. Douglas F. Tobler. (Studies in the Shoah, Vol. XXI, 1998), pp. 137-147.
“Lo Sippur Yisraeli: ‘Masa el Tom ha Elef’” [Not an Israeli Story: A.B. Yehoshua’s A Journey to the End of the Millennium.” Essays on a Journey to the End of the Millennium. Ziva Sahvit and Aviva Doron eds., Tel Aviv Hakibbutz Hameuchad (Tel Aviv, 1999), pp. 201-210.
“Israel’s New Literature of the Holocaust: The Case of David Grossman’s See Under: Love.” Modern Fiction Studies, 45-2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 457-479.
“Testing Tolerance: Cultural Diversity and National Unity in A.B. Yehoshua’s A Journey to the End of the Millennium.” Prooftexts, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September, 1999), pp. 235-256.
“Hebrew: A Language of Identity.” Journal of Jewish Education, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Fall, 1999/Winter 2000), pp. 9-16.
“Reliable Sources: Intertextual Meaning in David Grossman’s See Under: Love” [in Hebrew], Jerusalem Studies in Literature, Vol. 18, 2001, pp. 341-357.
Creating Wasserman: the Quest for a new Holocaust Story in David Grossman’s “See Under:’Love’.” Judaism, Vol. 91, No. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 51-60.
“Ethnic Diversity and National Unity in A. B. Yehoshua’s Journey To The End Of The Millennium. Studies in Hebrew Language and Literature, 2002, pp. 133-140.
“Self Destruction as a National Construct in A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani.” Invited article for the inaugural issue of the Hadoar quarterly. Hadoar, Fall 2002, pp. 16-19.
“Considering Jewish Identity in the Teaching of Hebrew Language [Hebrew]. Hebrew Higher Education, Vol. 10, 2002, pp. 14-18.
“Unfamiliar with the Night: Amalia Kahana-Carmon’s ‘Bridal Veil.’” Reading Hebrew Literature: Critical Discussions of Six Modern Texts. Alan Mintz (ed.). Brandeis University Press (Hanover, 2003), pp. 185-194.
“Shading the Truth: A.B. Yehoshua’s ‘Facing the Forests.’” History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band, edited by William Cutter and David C. Jacobson. Brown University Press (2004), pp. 409-418.
“Borderline Cases: National Identity and Territorial Affinity in A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani.” AJS Review, Vol. 30, No 1, 2006, pp. 167-182.
“The Literary Quest for National Revival: From Hazaz’s “The Sermon” 1942) to Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani (1990).” Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber, edited by Steven Leonard Jacobs. Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, 2009), pp. 455-464.
IN PRINT
“Simanim mukdamim: hataazit hakoderet shel hakalah hameshareret.” [Early Warnings: The Grim Vision of The Liberating Bride.” Mikan vol. 10, 2009.
“The Perils of Hybridity: Resisting the Post-Colonial Perspective in A. B. Yehoshua's The Liberating Bride.” AJS Review.
Portrait of the Artist as an Aging Scholar: A. B. Yehoshua’s The Liberating Bride. Hebrew Studies, Vol. 50, 2009.
TRANSLATIONS
Gershon Shaked, “Appelfeld and His Times: Transformation of the Eternal
Wandering Jew.” Hebrew Studies, Vol. 36, 1995, pp. 87-100
(with Barbara Mann).
A.B. Yehoshua, “Finding My Father in Sephardic Time.” Moment, Vol. 22, No. 5, October 1997, pp. 54-57, 85-92.
Savyon Liebrecht, “Written in Stone.” Apples from the Dessert:
Selected Stories of Savyon Liebrecht, Feminist Press (New York,
1998), pp. 99-118.