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Yahav CV
Amit Yahav
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of English; Assistant Professor; January 2014-present.
The University of Haifa, Department of English Language and Literature; Lecturer (equivalent in U.S. to Assistant Professor, tenure-track); October 2005-September 2013.
Rutgers University, The Center for Cultural Analysis; Affiliate Fellow; September 2011-June 2012
Loyola College of Maryland, Department of English; Adjunct Professor; September 2004-May 2005
Education
Ph.D., English Literature, Johns Hopkins University (2005)
Dissertation: “Narrative Justice” (directed by Frances Ferguson and Amanda Anderson)
M.A., English Literature, Johns Hopkins University (2000)
B.A. Tel-Aviv University, with Honors (1996)
Publications
“Sonorous Duration: Tristram Shandy and the Temporality of Novels,” PMLA 128.4 (2013): 872-887.
“The Sense of Rhythm: Nationalism, Sympathy, and the English Elocutionists,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 52.2 (2011): 173-92.
“Is There a Bull in This Nation? On Maria Edgeworth’s Nationalism,” Studies in Romanticism 49.1 (2010): 79-104.
“Introduction: The Ethics of Temporality,” Special Forum in Partial Answers 8.1 (2010): 93-96.
“Time, Duration, and Defoe’s Novels,” Partial Answers 6.1 (2008): 33-56.
“Gypsies, Nomadism, and the Limits of Realism,” MLN 121.5 (2006): 1124-1147.
“Reasonableness and Domestic Fiction,” ELH 73.4 (2006): 805-830.
“At Home in England, or Projecting Liberal Citizenship in Moll Flanders,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 35.1 (2001): 24-45.
Publications in Preparation
Moments: Duration and the English Novel (book)
Editorial Work
Referee for Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Referee for PMLA
Referee for Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Guest Editor of “Responses; The Ethics of Temporality II” Special Forum in Partial Answers 9.1 (2011)
Guest Editor of “The Ethics of Temporality,” Special Forum in Partial Answers 8.1 (2010)
Awards
Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Research Fellowship (Yale University, 2010)
Clark Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies Kanner Fellowship (UCLA, 2007)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship for work in residence at the Newberry Library (Chicago, 2006)
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2002-2003)
Johns Hopkins University Fellowship (1997-2000, 2001-2002)
Graduate Prize Fellowship, Center for Research on Culture and Literature (Johns Hopkins University, 2000-2001)
Faculty of the Humanities Scholarship for M.A. Candidates (Tel-Aviv University, 1996-1997)
Carmel Prize for Excellence (Tel-Aviv University, 1996)
Vardi Essay Competition, first prize (Tel-Aviv University, 1996)
Invited Lectures and Colloquia
“Moments of Sensibility,” Seminar Series on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Rutgers University (September 2010)
“Between Humanism and Nationalism: Gypsies in the English Novel,” The Literature Department, Tel Aviv University (June 2008; in Hebrew)
“Between a Bull and a Figure: figurative language and the nation according to Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth,” Program in Linguistics, Emory University (September 2007)
“Nomadism, Gypsies, and the Limits of Realism,” Department of Hebrew and Comparative
Literature, The University of Haifa (May, 2006; in Hebrew)
“Clarissa Resolves Conflicts: On Reasonableness and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel,” Dean’s Luncheon, The University of Haifa (April 2006; in Hebrew)
“Reasonableness and Domestic Fiction,” Talma Yzraeli Annual Memorial Lecture, Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University (March 2006)
“The Logics of Nomadism and Citizenship,” The Journal Club, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University (November 2002)
Conference and Panel Organization
Speaking to the Moment, panel at ASECS Annual Conference; Vancouver, CA (March 2011; panel organizer)
Time Beyond Borders, International Interdisciplinary Conference, sponsored by Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and The University of Haifa (July 2008; conference co-organizer)
Fantasia and Reality: Representations of Past, Present, and Future, sponsored by The University of Haifa (March 2008; conference steering committee)
Conference Papers
“Burke’s Durational Aesthetics” ASECS Annual Conference, Williamsburg VA (March 2014)
“The Aesthetic Moment in Burke and Radcliffe” MLA Annual Conference, Boston MA (January 2013)
“Between a Bull and a Figure: Nationalism, Figurative Language, and An Essay on Irish Bulls” Workshop on Figurative Language in Nineteenth-Century Prose, Metaphor Festival, Stockholm SW (September 2012)
“Temporal Moralities in Richardson and Hutcheson” ASECS Annual Conference, San Antonio TX (March 2012)
“Sonorous Mediation: The Rhythm of Discourse in Tristram Shandy” MLA Annual conference, Seattle WA (January 2012)
“Rhythm, Sympathy, and Reading Outloud” ASECS Annual Conference; Vancouver, CA (March 2011)
“Bulls, Figures, and Nationalism in An Essay on Irish Bulls,” ASECS Annual Conference; Richmond, VA (March 2009)
“The Sense of Rhythm,” Time Beyond Borders International Interdisciplinary Conference; Jerusalem and Haifa, Israel (July 2008)
“Is there a Bull in this nation? Nationalism and Sociability according to Maria Edgeworth,” NASSR/CISR Annual Conference; Bologna, Italy (March 2008)
“‘Now was my time’: Personal Time in Defoe’s Novels,” International Narrative Annual Conference; Washington, DC (March 2007)
“Another Reason: Samuel Richardson, John Locke, and Reasonableness,” BSECS Annual Conference; Oxford, England (January 2006)
“Reasonableness and the Novel,” First Global Conference, Critical Issues: Pluralism; Oxford, England (September 2003)
“Frances Burney’s The Wanderer and the Politics of Disagreement,” International Narrative Annual Conference; East Lansing, MI (April 2002)
“Projecting Liberal Citizenship in Moll Flanders,” NEMLA; Toronto, Canada (April 2002)