In 2009-10 Galia Benziman, of Tel Aviv University, was a Fulbright and Dan David Postdoctoral fellow at UCSC’s Dickens Project, and a visiting lecturer in Literature. Her main fields of interest are Victorian literature and culture, and the history of childhood. She has completed a book entitled Figuring Out the Child’s Voice: Neglected Children in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, and has begun a second book with the working title Trapped in Childhood, on the child’s refusal to grow up, with examples drawn from late nineteenth-century British literature, and twentieth-century Jewish, German, and Hebrew fiction. Her articles on these topics have appeared in the Journal of Narrative Theory, Women’s Studies, and Partial Answers.
Galia Benziman inaugurated the 2009 Jewish Studies Research Colloquium with a talk Sholem Aleichem’s Motl, the Cantor’s Son: “Try Not to Love Such a Country’: The Americanization of Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish Text,” on Tuesday, February 10, 4:00 PM in Humanities 1, Room 245.
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