Dr. Maya Klein

Porter Institute of Semiotics Poetry
Department of English and American Studies
מכון פורטר לסמיוטיקה ופואטיקה
Dr. Maya Klein
Office: Webb - School of Languages, 512

General Information

ABOUT

My fields of interest include multilingualism, translation studies, Anglophone literature, and contemporary American literature. My research focuses on the intersection between ethics and literature.

I teach a variety of courses at Tel Aviv University and specialize in the writing program in the Department of English and American Studies.

Courses include:

Basic Academic Writing in English

Advanced Academic Writing in English (Proseminar)

Introduction to American Culture

Translation in the Literary Imagination

American Fiction After 9/11

American Short Fiction

Intertextuality, Realism and The Classic: The Case of Coetzee and Defoe

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B.A.Department of Philosophy and Department of English,Tel Aviv University, Cum Laude (2003)

M.A., Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University, Summa Cum Laude (2006)

(2021) PhD, The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University 

 

AWARDS AND PRIZES

Rector's 100 List for Excellence in Teaching, 2023

The Dan David Prize, Young Researchers Scholarship Award, 2017-8

The Shirley Palmer Collier Scholarship, Tel Aviv University 2005

The Tuvia Bloch Award, Tel Aviv University, 2004

Publications

 

“My Daughter Éva: A Story of Translation, Paratext and Digital Communication.” History and Memory. 34.1: March 2022

“The Political Poem, Translation, and the Bias of Familiarity.Dibur Literary Journal  Invited for “Curated: Thinking with Literature”, August 13, 2021

“A Space for Translation: Waiting for the Barbarians and the Language of J.M. Coetzee.” Journal of Translation Studies. 4.1: June 2020

 

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