I finished my PhD at Tel Aviv University in 1979. The topic of my dissertation was “Meaning, Rhetoric and Form in Natan Alterman’s Poetry,” which was prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dan Miron. In 1982 I received in Israel a prestigeous literary prize, “The Prime Minister Creativity Award,” for my two scholarly books and two books of poetry. Following this prize I was invited as a scholar and then a visiting professor to Harvard University in 1983. I served as an assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) from 1984 to 1989, then was invited to teach at UF, first as an associate professor and from 1991 as a full professor.

My main publications deal with Hebrew fiction of the second half of the twentieth century (two volumes of reaserch on the fiction of Amos Oz, one on A.B. Yehoshua, one of the female writer Amalia Kahana-Carmon, and a panoramic examination of “postmodernist” trends in Hebrew fiction of the late 1980s and the early 1990s).