Contributors to This Issue

David Ben-Merre is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Brown University, where he is working on Modernist poetics and aesthetics.

Hannan Hever is a Professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University. His recent books include Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon, Nation Building and Minority Discourse (New York University Press, 2002) and Beautiful Motherland of Death, Aesthetics and Politics in Uri Zvi Greenberg's Poetry (Am-Oved Press, 2004, in Hebrew).

Heidi Kaufman is assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where she teaches courses in Victorian Literature and Culture. Her publications include essays on nineteenth-century women's literary history, Jewish cultural studies, the culture of British Imperialism, and constructions of race. She is co-editor of the book An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts.

Daniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University. He has published two scholarly books, one on William Carlos Williams (University of Missouri Press, 1995), and one on how contemporary American writers have responded to modern painting (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002). He has also edited or co-edited two collections of essays: one on the Jewish-American poet Allen Grossman (National Poetry Foundation, 2004), and a second on the legacy of the New York Jewish Public Intellectuals (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming). His study of the Jewish-American author Louise Glück will be published by the University of Missouri Press in 2006. He has published poems in national journals, as well as a collection of his own poetry, Bryce Passage (Marsh Hawk Press, 2004). He is co-editor of Shofar.

Rachel Oberter is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University. Her dissertation is entitled, "Channeling Art: Spiritualism and the Visual Imagination in Britain, 1850–1914." She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ranen Omer-Sherman teaches graduate courses in Orientalism as well as Jewish literature at the University of Miami. His essays on Jewish writers have appeared in journals such as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, MELUS, College Literature, Modern Jewish Studies, Religion & Literature, Shofar, and Modernism/Modernity. His books include Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, Roth (2002) and The Desert and Jewish Writing: Israel in Exile (2005).

Russell Schweller has taught at Randolph-Macon College and Wake Forest University and is currently Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is completing a book-length study of the literary and discursive history of the English aristocracy, entitled Aristocratic Mythmaking: Episodes in the Literary Biography of a Class.

Reuven Snir is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Haifa. He has published extensively on various aspects of Arabic prose, poetry, and theatre as well as Hebrew writings of Arabs and oriental Jews. His forthcoming book is Arviyut, Yahadut, Ziyonut: Ma'avak Zehuyot ba-Yezira shel Yehude Iraq (Arabness, Jewishness, Zionism: A Struggle of Identities in the Literature of Iraqi-Jews), (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute). Professor Snir is also an acclaimed translator of Arabic poetry into Hebrew and Hebrew poetry into Arabic.