About me

I teach and write about Modern and Postmodern theatre and performance-art.

My areas of investigation gravitate between Jewish and Hebrew Modern theatre and Contemporary sound and voice performance-art. In my research, I explore the performativity of voice and sound in relation to fictional, social and virtual space. I examine how the phenomenology of the voice shapes the identity and the presence of the performer, and how cultural “soundscapes” loom within implanted rhythms and melodic patterns.

I am co-editor (with Linda Ben-Zvi and Sharon Aronson Lehavi) of A Stage of Their Own: 7 American Feminist Plays (Hebrew), co-editor (with Edwin Seroussi) of Borderlines: Essays on Maps and The Logic of Place (De Gruyter, 2019), and author of Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theatre (SUNY Press 2019), a study of the cultural memory entombed in the sounds of the Israeli radio theatre and radio drama. 

My current research project, received generous funding from the European Research Council (ERC StG), and focuses on the themes, forms, and practices staged at the Yiddish Popular theatre (Shund), in eastern Europe and the US at the turn of the 20th century. I examine how historical and biblical narratives were mobilized to the popular Yiddish stage in order to reflect timely social processes, and how they resonated amongst its audiences. I study the popular Yiddish stage from various archival materials, sound recordings, Yiddish scholarship, journalistic criticism and reviews. 

updates

11 September, 2023. Keynote lecture. DRACOR ONBOARDING WORKSHOP FOR HEBREW AND YIDDISH. Free University, Berlin

Article in YNET about the DYBBUK Project

29-31 March, 2022. Keynote Lecture: the rise and fall of Moyshe Hurwitz. Theatre Migrants 1850-1918 – Motivations, Trajectories, Impacts conference. LMU Center for Advanced Studies, and ERC Project T-Migrants.

The DYBBUK Model: A New Handwriting Recognition Tool. InGeveb article.

Listen! Podcast episode: Soundscapes of the Hebrew theatre (Hebrew)

September 2021. Kol Nidre: Audio Visual Dramaturgies. Youtube recording of the lecture