Contact Information
M/C 173
uiuc campus mail, IL 00001
Biography
Rachel S. Harris is Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture in Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society. She is author of Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2017), and An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2014). She is co-editor of Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2021) and Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture (Wayne State University Press, 2012). She edited Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Wayne State University Press, 2019). Currently she serves as the editor of Journal of Jewish Identities.
Research Interests
Her research interests include Israeli and Jewish literature and film; particularly work in gender and women studies and post-colonialism. New projects include a reader of Jewish Women's Studies for Wayne State Press, and a new study of Israeli film history 1948-1964.
Education
University of Oxford, PhD.(2009)
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, MA (2001)
University of Edinburgh, MA (2000)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Recent Publications
Harris, R. S., & Chyutin, D. (Eds.) (2021). Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema. (New Directions in National Cinemas). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv21hrjqz
Harris, R. S., & Chyutin, D. (2021). Israeli Cinema Beyond the National: An Introduction. In R. S. Harris, & D. Chyutin (Eds.), Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema (pp. 1-36). (New Directions in National Cinemas). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv21hrjqz.4
Harris, R. S. (2021). New Frontiers: Creating a Nation through the Israeli Western. In R. S. Harris, & D. Chyutin (Eds.), Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema (pp. 80-101). (New Directions in National Cinemas).. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv21hrjqz.7
Harris, R. S., & Skinazi, K. E. H. (Eds.) (2020). The Feminism and Art of Jewish Orthodox and Haredi Women. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 38(2). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42728
Harris, R. S., & Skinazi, K. E. H. (2020). “Was I afraid to get up and speak my mind? No, I wasn’t”: The Feminism and Art of Jewish Orthodox and Haredi Women An Introduction. Shofar, 38(2), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2020.0021