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Nancy Berg
Title:Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Degree:PHD, University of Pennsylvania
BA, University of Michigan
Dept:Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures
Comparative Literature
Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies
Women & Gender Studies
Office:Busch Hall 112
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-4451
E-mail:nberg@wustl.edu

Courses
Exile: Jews, Literature and History; Israeli Women Writers; Israeli Culture and Society

Research Interests
Modern Hebrew language, literature; Israeli culture; Israeli immigrant writers; women's writing.

Selected Publications:

More and More Equal: The Literary Works of Sami Michael. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2005.

Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Irqa. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.

"Beyond the Third Year: Teaching the Advanced Hebrew Student," Higher Hebrew Education, Vol. 11 (2004): 159-173.

"Margins and Minorities in the Modern Hebrew Canon," Prooftexts vol. 24, no. 2, p. 43-51.

"Arab Chains and the Good Things of Sefarad: Aspects of Jewish Exile," AJS Review Vol. 26, no. 2 (November 2002): 301-326 (co-author with Mark Saperstein).