Mikhal Dekel

Prof. Dekel holds a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She is the author of *The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity and the Zionist Moment* (Northwestern University Press, 2011). Her scholarly articles, translations and blogs have appeared in ELH, WSQ, Jewish Social Studies, Guernica and in various anthologies.

• L.L.B., Tel Aviv University
• M.A., The City College of New York
• M.Phil, Ph.D., Columbia University

• Trauma and Literature
• Themes in Comparative Literature
• Literary Theory
  
• Law and Literature
• Nationality and Masculinity in Late Nineteenth Century European Literature
• Critical Reading and Writing II, Introduction to Prose

• Interconnections between gender, sexuality and nationality in late nineteenth century European literature and thought
• Minority identity; language in Diaspora; theories of post colonialism and nationalism.
• Critical legal studies; law and ethics
• Literary representation of trauma