Dr. Dara Barnat

Dr. Dara Barnat

darabarnat@tauex.tau.ac.il

Fields of Interest/Specialty

American Poetry

Poetry and Culture

Walt Whitman Studies

Jewish American Poetry

Intertextuality

Creative Writing

Courses Taught

Poetry and Identity

Women’s Poetry in America

Poetry and Protest

Poets Respond to America

Walt Whitman’s Influence

Current Research Projects

Walt Whitman’s influence on Jewish American Poetry

Recent Publications

Back, Rachel Tzvia, and Dara Barnat, editors. “‘I speak for the leaves’: Tribute Issue for Chana

Bloch (1940-2017).” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, 2018.

 “I followed Whitman through half of Camden: Gerald Stern, Walt Whitman, and

Jewish American Identity.” Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern,

edited by Mihaela Moscaliuc, Trinity UP, 2016, pp. 74-83.

“Women and poets see the truth arrive: Muriel Rukeyser and Walt Whitman.”                                 Studies in American Jewish Literature, vol. 34, no. 1, 2015, pp. 94-116.          

“Beyond religions and even beyond mankind: Karl Shapiro’s Jewish Walt Whitman.”                     Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 31, 2014, pp. 107-22.

Office Hours

Webb 502 (per course/by appointment)