Dorit Gottesfeld, Phd

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dorit Gottesfeld, PhD

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1. Higher Education

1994-1998: Tel Aviv University- Department of Middle Eastern and African History and Department of Arabic Language and Literature. Degree: B.A

1998-2000: Tel Aviv University- Department of Education. Degree: Teaching Certificate (Arabic Language).

1998-2003: Tel Aviv University- Department of Arabic Language and Literature. Degree: M.A (Distinction)

2003- 2010: TelAvivUniversity-School of Cultural Studies. Degree: Ph.D

2. Academic Appointments:

2001-2009: Assistant teacher and instructor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, TelAvivUniversity

2010- : Research Fellow in the Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute.

2010- : Head of the research group "Young Arab Women Writers" at the Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute.

2011- : Editor and chairperson of series of lectures-"Feminist writing in Arabic" at the Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute.

2011- : Head of the research group "Arab Feminism" at the Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute.

List of Publications

Doctoral Dissertation:

-"The Development of Palestinian Women's Fiction in Israel in the Territories and Abroad: 1948 till These Days". PhD diss., TelAvivUniversity, 2008.

Books:

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, 'The Hidden Fingers': Palestinian Women's Fiction (in Hebrew) Tel Aviv: Resling, forthcoming 2013, 170pp.

-Gottesfeld, Dorit (ed.), Mapping spaces in Arab women's writing (in preparation).

-3. Gottesfeld, Dorit,Young Palestinian women writers(in English) (in preparation).

Articles:

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "The Palestinian Dream, Feminine Dream and What's Between Them: A Journey to Imagination's Districts in Dima Jum'a al-Samman's Writing," Hamizrah ha-Khadash, v.49, Jerusalem and Ra'anana: The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI) and The Open university, 2010. pp. 96-113. (in Hebrew)

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, “A Compass for the Sunflower," HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 8 (2010) 217–246.

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, “'Acoustic Walls': On Feminine Voices in the Stories by Samia 'At'ut," Journal of Arabic Literature 41: 3 (2010), pp. 303-320.

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "Women Painting: Use of Color in the Works of Rajaa Bakriyya," Journal of Semitic Studies LVII/1 Spring 2012, pp. 121-143.

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "Harbingers of feminism: A new look at the works of pioneering Palestinian women writers," Journal of Levantine Studies Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2011, pp. 75-101.

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "'Mirrors of Alienation': West Bank Palestinian Women’s Literature after Oslo," Journal of Arabicand Islamic Studies (forthcoming, 2012), 25pp.

Other Publications:

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "'Acoustic Walls': On Feminine Voices in Palestinian Fiction," Iton 77, vol. 339, May-June 2009, pp. 26-28 [Special Issue on Arabic Literature, Sasson Somekh (ed.)] (in Hebrew).

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "'ha-Lavan': Rajaa Bakriyya (Translation from Arabic), Iton 77,vol. 339, May-June 2009, pp. 28-26 [Special Issue on Arabic Literature, Sasson Somekh (ed.)] (in Hebrew).

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "Feminine Palestinian body," Who's Afraid of Virginias: Women Writing Womanhood, Tamar Mishmar (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Iton 77, 2009, pp. 132-133. (in Hebrew).

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "'A Way of a Blind Woman': Samia 'At'ut (Translation from Arabic), Who's Afraid of Virginias: Women Writing Womanhood, Tamar Mishmar (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Iton 77, 2009, pp. 129-130. (in Hebrew).

-Gottesfeld, Dorit, "'A Silent Nap'" Samia 'At'ut (Translation from Arabic), Who's Afraid of Virginias: Women Writing Womanhood, Tamar Mishmar (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Iton 77, 2009, pp. 130-131. (in Hebrew).

Conferences and Lectures:

-2002: The First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Mainz, Germany.

-2004: 29th Bi-annual International Conference of German Orientalists, 20-24 September 2004, Halle, Germany, Lecture entitled "Young Palestinian Women Writers: Samia Atout as a Test Case".

-2005: Lecture in memory of Rina Drory, TelAvivUniversity, Lecture entitled: "'Not For Men Only': On the Development of Palestinian Women's Fiction".

-2008: 15th International Congress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East(DAVO), 2-4 October 2008, Erfurt, Germany, Lecture entitled "Young Palestinian Women Writers".

-2009: 16th International Congress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East(DAVO), 8 - 10 October 2009, Bonn, Germany, Lecture entitled "Language and Style in Young Palestinian Women Writers: Rajaa Bakriyya as a Case Study".

-2010: World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), 19-24 July 2010, Barcelona,Spain, Lecture entitled "'Women Painting': Use of Color by Young Palestinian Women Writers".

-2011: 30 years to the department of Arabic Literature in Bar-Ilan Univ., 17-18 May 2011, Lecture entitled "'Yellow Butterfly' Subversion and Innovation in Rajaa Bakriyya's work".

-2011:18th International Congress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East (DAVO), 6 – 8 October, Berlin, Germany, Lecture entitled"Mirrors of Alienation: Contemporary Palestinian Women's Fiction in the WestBank and the Gaza Strip".

-2011: Palestinian Literature between the Nakba and the Intifada, 6 December, The Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute, Lecture entitled "A New Look at the Works of Pioneering Palestinian Women Writers (forthcoming).

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