Lital Levy is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she teaches Modern Hebrew and Arabic literatures and literary theory. Her first book, Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, was published by Princeton University Press in 2014 and was a co-winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, presented by the Association for Jewish Studies.
She is currently working on her next book, provisionally titled Partitioned Pasts: Jewish Writers in the Arab East, which examines the intellectual history of Arab Jews from 1863-1948. It is expected to be published by Stanford University Press in 2016.
Professor Levy holds a B.A. in Middle Eastern and Lital Levy is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she teaches Modern Hebrew and Arabic literatures and literary theory. Her first book, Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, was published by Princeton University Press in 2014 and was a co-winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, presented by the Association for Jewish Studies.
She is currently working on her next book, provisionally titled Partitioned Pasts: Jewish Writers in the Arab East, which examines the intellectual history of Arab Jews from 1863-1948. It is expected to be published by Stanford University Press in 2016.
Professor Levy holds a B.A. in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, a Master of International Affairs, also from Columbia, and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley....more