Nurit Buchweitz, Prof.
Prof. Nurit Buchweitz earned her Ph.D in comparative literature at Tel Aviv University and holds a teaching certificate from the School of Education at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of interest are postmodernism – poetics and theory, post-humanism and 21st century writing, late-modernist Israeli Prof. Buchweitz was Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative literature between 2008-2013 and between 2015 -2022 served as the Dean of the Faculty of Society and Culture. She was a visiting scholar in Ludwigsburg Pedagogical University, Germany, in Krakow Pedagogical University, Poland and in Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Authored Books
1. Buchweitz, Nurit. Permit to Pass: Generation Shift, Meir Wiezeltier and the Poetry of the 1960s. Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing 2008 In Hebrew
2. Buchweitz, Nurit. An Officer of Civilization: The Poetics of Michel Houellebecq. Peter Lang 2015
Edited Books
3. Buchweitz, Nurit, Abed Marii and Alon Fragman (eds.) In Others[s] Words: Studies in Hebrew and Arabic Literature. Resling Publishing 2010 In Hebrew
4. Padva, Gilad and Nurit Buchweitz (eds.) Sensational Visual Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye. Palgrave Macmillan 2014
5. Padva, Gilad and Nurit Buchweitz (eds.) Intimate Relationships in Literature, Cinema and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan 2017.
Articles in Refereed Journals since 2010
1. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Who Decides On Me? On Evaluating Children’s Literature”. Olam Katan 4, 2010, pp. 41 – 50. In Hebrew
2. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Pornography and the Post-human in Michel Houellebecq’s Novels.” History and Theory: The Protocols 22, October 2011, e-journal In Hebrew
3. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Exile, Immigration, Displacement in Nabokov’s ‘Dozen’” Mi-mamakim 48, 2012, e-journal In Hebrew
4. Buchweitz, Nurit. “‘Who, Among You, Deserves Eternal Life?’ The Question of Religious Faith in the Society of Consumers, Michel Houellebecq’s Answer”. Studies in Cultural Research 2, Fall 2013, pp. 119-137. In Hebrew
5. Buchweitz, Nurit. “‘This is Not a Character’: Resemblance and Similitude in Etgar Keret’s Suddenly, a Knock on the Door”. Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 7 no.2, 2013, pp. 101-108.
6. Buchweitz, Nurit. “The Personal and the Political in Dhalia Ravikovitch’s ‘Mother with Child’ Poems” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, Fall 2013, e-journal
7. Heilbronner Oded and Nurit Buchweitz. “Noise? Or, Should We Be Afraid of Culture Studies?”. Katharsis 18, Fall 2013, pp.98-141. In Hebrew
8. Buchweitz, Nurit. “‘All Components of the Scene Spread Aside’: Meir Wiezeltier’s Prose Writing” Dappim Lemechkar Besifrut 19, 2014. In Hebrew
9. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Reflexivity and Interconnection in Meir Wiezeltier’s Poetry” Hebrew Higher Education, vol. 16 2014, pp. 147-155.
10. Buchweitz, Nurit and Cynthia Biron Cohen. “Ekphrasis in Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory as mise-en-abyme and as metafiction”. Journal of Literature and Art Studies vol.5(11), November 2015, pp. 1020-1030
11. Buchweitz, Nurit and Elie Cohen-Gewerc. “Leisure and Posthumanism in Houellebecq’s Platform and Lanzarote.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17.4 (2015): pp. 25
12. Buchweitz, Nurit. “A Quest for Eternity in Aitmatov’s The Day Lasts a Hundred Years” Mifgeshey Tarbut 5, 2016, pp. 85-95. In Hebrew
13. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Multicultural containment and Aesthetic Education in Nakar-Sadi’s Oxana”. Hebrew Studies vol. LVIII, 2017, pp. 445-461
14. Buchweitz, Nurit. “‘The Seven Good Years as Etgar Keret’s Rosetta Stone”. BGU Review – A Journal of Israeli Culture, Fifth Issue, Winter 2018 [in.bgu.il]
15. Buchweitz, Nurit. “‘The Seven Good Years as Etgar Keret’s Rosetta Stone”. BGU Review – A Journal of Israeli Culture, Fifth Issue, Winter 2018 [in.bgu.il]
16. Buchweitz, Nurit. “School and schooling, and the boundaries of the human in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Journal of Literature and librarianship, vol. 9 issue 1, Summer 2020, pp. 128-141.
17. Buchweitz, Nurit. “”Some people are intimidated by the truth”: a comparative reading of Meir Wiezeltier’s and Roi Hassan’s poems”. Peamim 163-164, 2021, pp. 121 – 124. In Hebrew
18. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Japan Through Western Eyes in Stupeur et Tremblements by Amélie Nothomb: Interpretation Prevailing Over Translation”. Literature Compass, vol. 18 issue 8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12647
Chapters in Books since 2010
1. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Late Modernism in the 1970s: New Flattened Dimensions”. In: Oded Heilbronner and Michael Levin (eds.), Israeli Modernism or Modernism in Israel. Resling Publishing 2010, pp, 303 – 332. In Hebrew
2. Buchweitz, Nurit. “The Topography of Environment and Landscape in Erich Kästner’s Writings”. In: Hubertus Fische, Julia Metveev and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmann (eds.), Natur- und Landschaftswahrnehmung in Deutschschprachiger Jüdischer und Christlicher Literatur der Ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. University of Hanover and Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, Munchen 2010, pp. 39-53.
3. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Writing in the Language of the Other”. In: Nurit Buchweitz, Abed Marii and Alon Fragman (eds.). In Others[s] Words: Studies in Hebrew and Arabic Literature. Resling Publishing, Tel Aviv 2010 , pp. 9 – 21. In Hebrew
4. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Sixty Years of Polish Literature Translated into Hebrew: An Overview”. In: Mariusz Misztal and Piotr Troyanski (eds), Jews and Poles: History, Culture, Education. Wydawnictwo Naukowe University Press, Krakow 2011, pp. 102 – 121.
5. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Ethos, Telos and Steinberg’s Profiles”. In: Avidov Lipsker and Rella Kushlevsky (eds.), The Making of Stories: Research in Jewish Narrative. Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan 2013, pp. 353-366. In Hebrew
6. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Contemporary Jewish Life, Between Freedom and Tradition in Eliette Abécassis’s novel Et Te Voici Permise à Tout Homme”. In: Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman and Ber Kotlerman (eds.), Around The Point: Studies in Jewish Literature and Culture in Multiple Languages. Hillel Weiss, Roman Katsman and Ber Kotlerman (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 231-255.
7. Buchweitz, Nurit. “A Feat of Fantasy: the Question of Magic in Korczak’s Kaytek The Wizard”. In: Agnieszka Chlosta-Sikorska, Hanna Stepniewska-Gebik and Pioter Trojanski (eds.), Korczakian Reminiscences: Selected Aspects of the Times and Legacy of Janusz Korczak. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uviwersytetu Pedagogicznego (UP) Krakow, 2014, pp. 79-94.
8. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Visions of the Future: Humans and Posthumans in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”. In: Thomas E. Bishop and Jeremy R. Strong (ed.), Imagining the End: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Apocalypse. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015, pp. 143-162.
9. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Vitalities and Fatalities in Etgar Keret’s Graphic Fiction”. In: Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz (eds.) Sensational Visual Pleasures: The Phallic Eye. Palgrave Macmillan 2014, pp. 37-48.
Articles in Conference Proceedings since 2010
1. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Transnationalism, Activism and Literature, the case of Michel Houellebecq”. Sappir Forum on Culture Studies (ed.) Workshop Conference 4: What is Cultural Change? pp. 177-180. Shaar Negev: Sappir Academic College, 2010
2. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Israeli Modernism”. Sappir Forum on Culture Studies (ed.) Workshop Conference 6: Pinup, Visual Art, Cultural Relativism, pp. 11-17. Shaar Negev: Sappir Academic College, 2011
3. Buchweitz, Nurit. “Pornography, male fantasy and the posthuman human in Michel Houellbecq”. Sappir Forum on Culture Studies (ed.) Workshop Conference 6: Pinup, Visual Art, Cultural Relativism, pp. 11-17. Shaar Negev: Sappir Academic College, 2011