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Faculty<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Oded Nir<\/h3>\n

Associate Professor of Hebrew<\/p>\n

Queens Hall, Room 345E
Phone: 718-997-5572
oded.nir@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

My research explores the relationship between culture and the historical development of capitalism. I focus in particular on the ways artistic form (in literature, film, and TV) allows us to perceive social tensions, in ways that are unavailable to other kinds of knowledge. My first book, Signatures of Struggles<\/em>, demonstrates how the development of modern Hebrew literature can only be understood if one sees it in relation to the development of capitalism in Palestine and Israel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ve published multiple edited volumes, on topics such as materialist approaches to Israeli and Jewish culture, Israel\/Palestine, and the way different literatures around the world offer us critical glimpses into different parts of a single system, transnational capitalism.<\/p>\n

Currently, I\u2019m working on several projects. One is my next monograph, Israel as World Reduction, which explores the relationship between the spatial logic of contemporary Israeli film, and uneven economic development in Israel\/Palestine. Another project is a series of articles on new Israeli science fiction, arguing that the genre has replaced Israeli national allegory, in allowing us to perceive the movement of history. I\u2019m also preparing an edited special issue on speculative culture and counter-futurisms in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Editorial Work<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m an Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed quarterly,\u00a0CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Nir\u2019s teaches both introductory and advanced courses on Hebrew and Israeli literature and culture. Among these are Hebrew 150, an introduction to Hebrew literature in translation; Hebrew 356, a course on modern Hebrew literature; Hebrew 358, a course on contemporary Israeli TV and film; and Hebrew 190, on the representations of conflict in Israeli culture. Professor Nir\u2019s teaching emphasize a multidisciplinary approach to the study of culture, highlighting the way in which cultural texts creatively think through social problems, providing perspectives and that remain invisible from non-artistic perspectives.<\/p>\n

Sample Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monographs:<\/p>\n