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Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures
 
Michal Ben-Horin
Assistant Professor

PhD, Tel Aviv University
  
Office: 354 Pugh Hall
Phone: 352-392-8678
Office Hours: no Summer 2008 office hours
  
E-mail: <mbhorin@ufl.edu>
My research interests include comparative literature with a focus on Hebrew and German literature, musical theories, medial representation and poetics of memory. I am currently working on representations of violence, narrative and musical discourse in contemporary Israeli literature and culture.

Selected Publications:

2006. “‘Memory Metonymies’: Music and Photography in Ingeborg Bachmann and Monika Maron,” German Life and Letters 59(2), 233-248.

2006. “Musical Discourse and Historical Narratives in Hebrew Literature: Kenaz’s Musical Moment and Shaham’s The Rosendorf Quartet,” Israel Studies Forum – An Interdisciplinary Journal 21(2), 85-101.

2006. “Tones of Memory: Music and Time in the Prose of Yoel Hoffmann and W. G. Sebald,” in: Jo Alison Parker, Michael Crawford, Paul Harris (Eds.), Time and Memory: The Study of Time XII, Leiden: Brill, 163-175.

Courses Taught:
HBR 4930 Identity and Memory in Jewish Literature
HBR 4930 The Construction of A Nation
HBR 4930 War in Israeli Film and Culture