People - Faculty - Sokoloff
Naomi Sokoloff Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
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Areas of Study: Modern Hebrew literature, Israeli culture, literature and the Holocaust, American Jewish literature
Education: B.A. Swarthmore College, 1975 - Spanish M.A. Princeton University, 1979 – Comparative Literature Ph.D. Princeton University, 1980 – Comparative Literature
My research interests cover a range of modern Jewish writing, with special focus on the representation of childhood in narrative, on Holocaust studies, and on feminist criticism. My publications include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) and a number of edited volumes: Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992); Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1994); Israel and America: Cross Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination (a special issue of the journal Shofar, 1998); Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Vol. VI (SUNY Press , 2002); and The Jewish Presence in Children’s Literature (a special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). I have served on the editorial boards of Prooftexts, Shofar, and Hebrew Studies.
I joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 1985, and I have served as Chair of the Jewish Studies Program and as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization.
Additional Web Page: http://faculty.washington.edu/naosok
Link to Modern Hebrew Language and Literature Program at the University of Washington