Germanic Languages and Literatures
Lecturer
Education
MA, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania 2022
MA, Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2017
BA, Psychology and Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, cum laude 2014
Shachar Levanon holds an MA in modern Hebrew literature with a specialization in Yiddish literature from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His MA thesis is a study of objects in the poetry of Avot Yeshurun.
Levanon’s current project examines multilingual Jewish writing in the interbellum period, exploring the literary, aesthetic, and cultural connections between writers from three different literary traditions in America—Hebrew, Yiddish, and American literature.
Research Interests
Modern Hebrew literature; modern Yiddish literature; 20th-century American literature; modernism and modernity; poetry and poetics; multilingualism and translation.
Levanon’s current project examines multilingual Jewish writing in the interbellum period, exploring the literary, aesthetic, and cultural connections between writers from three different literary traditions in America—Hebrew, Yiddish, and American literature.
Research Interests
Modern Hebrew literature; modern Yiddish literature; 20th-century American literature; modernism and modernity; poetry and poetics; multilingualism and translation.