Nir Evron
Jewish Studies

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Visiting Research Scholar in Jewish Studies


About Prof.听Evron:

Nir Evron is Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Tel Aviv University. He holds a B.A. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.

Prof. Evron works primarily on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature and culture, with forays into Hebrew and European contexts. His first book, The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds (2020), is a literary history of the emergence and dissemination of the trope of cultural extinction鈥攖he terminal ending of a collective form of life鈥攊n European, American, and Hebrew literatures. His current book project explores the burst of animal stories in turn-of-the-century American literature.

He is the co-editor, together with Roi Tartakovsky, of a recent special issue titled The AI Revolution: Speculations on Authorship, Pedagogy, and the Future of the Profession (Poetics Today, June 2024), which brings together prominent literary scholars and theorists to muse about the future of humanist learning and teaching in the age of Large Language Models.

Recent Publications:

鈥淚ntroduction: The AI-Revolution: Speculations on Authorship, Pedagogy and the Future of the Profession.鈥 Poetics Today, Volume 45:2, June 2024.

鈥淟LMs and the Amazing Shrinking University.鈥 Poetics Today, Volume 45:2, June 2024.

鈥淗erder on Shakespeare, Nominalism and Obsolescence.鈥 Dibur, Issue 12-3 (2022).

鈥溾楾otally Vanished鈥 Like a Pinch of Dust鈥: Edith Wharton and the Theme of Cultural Extinction鈥 in The Bloomsbury Companion to Edith Wharton, ed. Emily J. Orlando, (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 209-22.

鈥淗annah Arendt, Thinking, Metaphor.鈥 Telos, Issue 196, Fall 2021, pp. 9-30.

Response to: 鈥溾業sn鈥檛 That French?鈥: Edith Wharton Revisits the [International Theme鈥欌 by Virginia Ricard. Edith Wharton Review, Vol. 36, Issue 2, August 2020.

鈥淥n Finding the Mortal World Enough: Extinction, Value and the Crisis of the Humanities.鈥 Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 17: Issue 1, 2020, pp. 48-69.

鈥溾楩og-shaped Men鈥: The Remnant-figure in American Regionalism.鈥 Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Volume 52.3, Winter 2019.

鈥淭ribal Liberalism.鈥 Mafteach: Lexical Review of Political Thought, Volume 3, 2019 [in Hebrew].

鈥淔oreign Means to Local Ends: Bialik, Emerson and the Uses of America in 1920s Palestine.鈥 Journal of Transnational American Studies, Volume 9.1, 2018.

鈥溾業nterested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways鈥: Curiosity in Edith Wharton.鈥 Twentieth-Century Literature, Volume 64.1, Spring 2018, pp. 79-100.

鈥淓dith Wharton in Tel Aviv: The Curious Case of Undine Spragg.鈥 Edith Wharton Review. Volume 33.1 Spring 2017.