Senior Academic Professional Undergraduate Coordinator M.F.A. Cornell, 2003 Ph.D. Princeton, 2010 My work focuses on the ethics and aesthetics of comedy, specifically the function of laughter in fiction. My interests include Modern Hebrew literature; twentieth-century anglophone, hispanophone, and francophone literature; theories of humor and laughter; Holocaust literature and film; biblical themes in Western literature; Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Miguel de Cervantes, Shmuel Yosef Agnon. I wrote these books: Happiness (Achuzat Bayit Books, 2024) Samson the Silent (Achuzat Bayit Books, 2022) The Champions of Innocence (Yediot Books, 2014) Research Research Interests: Modern Hebrew, Hispanic, and Francophone literatures; theories of humor
