Efrat Bloom

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Bloom

Graduate Student

  • About

    Interests: Writing and reading processes; history, memory, and fiction; exile and diaspora literature; psychoanalysis; Hebrew and Jewish modernism; ars-poetic poetry.

    Languages: Hebrew and Arabic

    Publications:

    “Fiction’s Paradigmatic Alterity: Saramago on the Ethics of the Literary.” Forthcoming in Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern and Postmodern Fiction, Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion and Irina Goloubeva Rasmussen Eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

    "The Reader of the Book’: A Reflection on Reading Poetry.” Mosaic 43.4 (2010): 105-21.

    “Maternal Loss, the Art of the Self-Portrait, and Art Spiegelman’s Maus”. American Visual Memoirs after the 1970’s. Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Visibility in the Post-Civil Rights Age. Ed. Mihaela Precup. Bucharest: U of Bucharest P, 2010, 121-38.

    ‘The Three-Legged Chicken’: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Yehoshua Kenaz’s Short Story.” Dapim, Research in Literature 14-15 (2006): 217-55.

  • Education
    • BA in Psychology, Honors from University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 2001
    • MA in Psychology and Literature (Individual Program, Summa Cum Laude) from University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 2004
    • MA in Hebrew Literature from Columbia University, New York, New York, 2006