Professor, Department Head

606E Old Chemistry Building
513-556-2300
gila.naveh@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Gila Safran-Naveh received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at San Diego. Her primary interests are Holocaust and genocide studies, critical theory, Freud and Judaism, Kafka, and gender and Judaism. Among her most popular courses are Literature of the Holocaust, Jewish/women's Humor, Freud and Judaism, Jews in Film and Salon Culture. She edited The Formal Complexity of Natural Language (1987) and wrote Biblical Parables and Their Modern Recreations: from Apples of Gold in SIlver Settings to Imprerial Messages, in 2000 and is working on a third book entitled Unpacking the Heart with Words: Women Survivors of the Holocaust Healing through Narratives of the Self. Professor Safran-Naveh has published numerous scholarly articles and served on a variety of committees for the promotion of equal rights and the advancement of women. In 1988 she organized the Fifth International Conference of the Semiotic Society. She recevied the university A. B. (Dolly) Cohen Award for excellence in teaching, in 1996, the Edith Alexander Award, in 2000, and the prestigious George C. Barbour Award, in 2006 . Recipient of numerous research grants, Professor Safran-Naveh held the Skirball Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies in Hebrew and Judaica at the Oxford Center for Jewish Studies. She is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew and Jewish Studies and serves on the board of many scholarly journals.

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