Visiting Assistant Professor
In Spring 2021, Dr. Lilah Lachman, a scholar, critic, translator, and editor, will be joining the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Dr. Lilach Lachman lectures at the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Haifa University. Dr. Lachman teaches Israeli and Comparative literature with an emphasis on (post) modern poetry and female writers from East and West. She published extensively on Romantic and (post) modern poetry. Her interests focus on poetry and film, poetics of memory and testimony, translation studies, poetic historiography, gender studies, and minor works of literature. Her teaching negotiates theory with close reading.
Since the 1990s, Dr. Lachman has been a contributor to Haaretz Book Review. She edited an anthology of lullabies that brings together a range of Hebrew poetry from East to West (Yavo Gdi Zahav, 2015); and essays on the Israeli poet Avot Yeshurun’s work (How is it read: Avot Yeshurun, 2011), and co-edited a selection of Yeshurun’s poems ( 2009). Dr. Lachman translated Emily Dickinson’s poems (Perhaps the Heart, 2004); edited a Hebrew selection of Geoffrey Hartman’s essays (2018); and recently edited a selection of the Israeli poetess, Israel Price recipient, Nurit Zarchi’s poems “And You?” [“VE-At?]” (Afik, 2020); and co-edited Selected Essays on Zarchi’s work (Gama, forthcoming 2021). Her book, Ktav Adam: Avot Yeshurun, is forthcoming. Dr. Lachman’s current projects focus on multi-vocality in the lullaby and on poetic historiography, especially in women’s writing.